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4 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Slavi Pantaleev
e1690722f7 Replace cronjobs with systemd timers
Fixes https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/issues/756

Related to https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/issues/737

I feel like timers are somewhat more complicated and dirty (compared to
cronjobs), but they come with these benefits:

- log output goes to journald
- on newer systemd distros, you can see when the timer fired, when it
will fire, etc.
- we don't need to rely on cron (reducing our dependencies to just
systemd + Docker)

Cronjobs work well, but it's one more dependency that needs to be
installed. We were even asking people to install it manually
(in `docs/prerequisites.md`), which could have gone unnoticed.

Once in a while someone says "my SSL certificates didn't renew"
and it's likely because they forgot to install a cron daemon.

Switching to systemd timers means that installation is simpler
and more unified.
2021-01-14 23:35:50 +02:00
Slavi Pantaleev
27c9014cb8 Improve uninstallation instructions
Also switches to using `docker system prune -a` for a less invasive
cleanup of Docker images and related resources.
2020-11-24 09:38:17 +02:00
Thomas vO
caba16ea0d add script + doc to remove everything 2018-11-28 11:02:51 +01:00
Slavi Pantaleev
30c53cdea2 Split README into a bunch of files in docs/ 2018-08-08 10:07:02 +03:00