Installing Matrix with matrix-ansible-docker-deploy

Steps that I've taken (following this guide)

• Set up a DigitalOcean droplet with Debian 11, ssh key linked to my machine, $12 plan (2GB Ram)

• SSH in to check it has Python 3 installed (it does)

• Install Ansible on my machine

  • pip3 install ansible --user
  • this installs ansible on my machine but doesn't add it to the path, so cli commands starting with ansible-playbook etc don't work
  • following a post on here I added export PATH="/Users/shantanu/Library/Python/3.9/bin:$PATH" to ~/.zshrc then ran source ~/.zshrc which fixed it

• Git clone the Ansible playbook from the repo

• configure the playbook

  • enable ma1sd
  • enable Mautrix Signal bridge
  • enable shared secret (this makes double puppetting possible)
  • enable Appservice Discord bridge

• run the playbook install script

  • didn't work at first, i think due to issue with Apple Silicon - had to pip install passlib which fixed it

• run the playbook run script

• register a user