Finish setting up ejabberd cluster #243

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2020-11-23T10:23:29Z

raucao commented

2020-11-23 10:23:29 +00:00

For some reason we hadn't documented this when we started setting up the cluster a couple of months ago. We got to the point where we have ejabberd running on both andromeda (the current master) and draco (in a VM, the new cluster node).

However, there is still a problem with HTTP uploads (i.e. posting pictures and other files to chats from clients) failing when connected to the wrong node.

I have asked in the XMPP Service Operators channel, and the common solution to this problem is to use the external uploads feature, where you post to a dedicated service using a lightweight protocol that just requires a secret token for POSTing. The ejabberd HTTP uploads module supports this already.

Behind that POST API, you can then obviously host/replicate/etc. that data in any way you want. As we already use nginx for everything, I think it would be easiest to just set up this Perl module with it:

https://github.com/weiss/ngx_http_upload

For some reason we hadn't documented this when we started setting up the cluster a couple of months ago. We got to the point where we have ejabberd running on both andromeda (the current master) and draco (in a VM, the new cluster node). However, there is still a problem with HTTP uploads (i.e. posting pictures and other files to chats from clients) failing when connected to the wrong node. I have asked in the XMPP Service Operators channel, and the common solution to this problem is to use the external uploads feature, where you post to a dedicated service using a lightweight protocol that just requires a secret token for POSTing. The ejabberd HTTP uploads module supports this already. Behind that POST API, you can then obviously host/replicate/etc. that data in any way you want. As we already use nginx for everything, I think it would be easiest to just set up this Perl module with it: https://github.com/weiss/ngx_http_upload

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greg was assigned by raucao

2020-11-23 10:23:29 +00:00

raucao changed title from ~~Set up ejabberd cluster~~ to Finish setting up ejabberd cluster

2020-11-23 10:30:42 +00:00

raucao commented

2020-11-23 13:04:13 +00:00

Another thing we hadn't considered is how this works with Tor. I guess one of the ejabberd nodes/VMs should be designated a Tor hidden service role, with the privkeys stored in an encrypted data bag. It's enough to connect to just that one from Tor then.

greg referenced this issue from a commit

2020-11-25 15:36:26 +00:00

Use the same Erlang cookie to enable clustering Refs #243

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2020-11-25 15:44:32 +00:00

Enable ejabberd clustering #246

raucao closed this issue

2020-11-25 16:10:14 +00:00

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