Ansible Role: nextcloud

This Ansible Role installs a rootless Nextcloud container using Podman. It is intended to be composed with separate roles for Podman, database, and web proxy.

Requirements

• podman
• containers.podman

Dependencies

• mariadb (optional)
• postgresql (optional)
• nginx_conf (optional)

Role Variables

See the role defaults and the Nextcloud environment variable documentation. For a working example, see this homelab stack.

Example Playbook

- hosts: nextcloud
  become: true
  roles:
    - role: nginxinc.nginx_core.nginx
    - role: fauust.mariadb
    - role: alvistack.podman
    - role: bleetube.redis
    - role: bleetube.nextcloud
      become: false
  tasks:
    - import_tasks: nginx_conf.yml

Systemd

systemctl --user status container-nextcloud.service

Upgrades

Configure nextcloud_version.

ansible-playbook playbooks/nextcloud.yml --tags nextcloud
podman exec -it -u www-data nextcloud /var/www/html/occ app:update --all
podman exec -it -u www-data nextcloud /var/www/html/occ upgrade

Backups

See the postgres example.

Monitoring

TODO

Resources

• nextcloud.admin collection
• Apps
• Admin Manual
• User Manual

Thanks

Based on the original role created by Joerg Kastning. Thank you!