playbook/README.md

# va-playbook

ansible playbook for solanum that supports hosts running debian or alpine

## setup
- add new host to your hosts file
- run `solanum.yml` on new host to compile solanum
- (optional) add your `ssl.pem` and `ssl.key` to `/home/ircd/ircd/etc/`. you probably want to make a cronjob for acme to automatically do this when the cert expires. make sure to `openssl dhparam -out dh.pem 2048` in `/home/ircd/ircd/etc/` to make safe dh parameters!
- run config.yml on the whole network
- repeat steps periodically for network maintainance

## hosts ini
everything except the server name, `linkpass`, and `sid` are optional and have sane defaults

`
name.of.the.server linkpass=yourreceivepassword sid=123 autoconn=other.server.name paport=6697 pahost=name.accessable.by.other.hosts ansible_host=name.accessable.by.playbook sponsor='nice person' services=linkpass description='very good server'
`

- linkpass: password to receive from other linking servers. preferrably use something random for each one
- sid: the Server ID for the server to use, in the format `[0-9][A-Z0-9][A-Z0-9]`
- autoconn: server name to autoconnect to in the `connect {}` block
- paport: port for other servers to use for linking
- pahost: hostname for other servers to use for linking
- ansible_host: hostname for ansible to use
- sponsor: put a little 'server donated by' message in the MOTD
- services: password to accept for services connecting over localhost, use only on the server that links to services
- description: description for server in whois etc

## caveats
- ini seems to have horrible variable typing, so weird things can happen like `sid=2E5` turning into `sid=200000` (even if you quote it, wtf). use yaml for your hosts file if you need strict typing
- this playbook currently only supports each server having one server set to `autoconn`