1. edit the configuration file (`inventory/host_vars/matrix.<your-domain>/vars.yml`) to your liking. You may also take a look at the various `roles/*/ROLE_NAME_HERE/defaults/main.yml` files and see if there's something you'd like to copy over and override in your `vars.yml` configuration file.
2. (optional, advanced) you may wish to keep your `inventory` directory under version control with [git](https://git-scm.com/) or any other version-control system.
3. (optional, advanced) to run Ansible against multiple servers with different `sudo` credentials, you can copy the sample inventory hosts yaml file for each of your hosts: (`cp examples/host.yml inventory/my_host1.yml` …) and use the [`ansible-all-hosts.sh`](../bin/ansible-all-hosts.sh) script [in the installation step](installing.md).
- [Setting up the Dimension Integration Manager](configuring-playbook-dimension.md) (optional; [unmaintained](https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/issues/2806#issuecomment-1673559299); after [installing](installing.md))
- [Configuring Dendrite](configuring-playbook-dendrite.md), if you've switched to the [Dendrite](https://matrix-org.github.io/dendrite) homeserver implementation (optional)
- [Setting up SchildiChat](configuring-playbook-client-schildichat.md) - a web client based on [Element](https://element.io/) with some extras and tweaks (optional)
- [Setting up Instagram bridging via Mautrix Meta](configuring-playbook-bridge-mautrix-meta-instagram.md) (optional)
- [Setting up Messenger bridging via Mautrix Meta](configuring-playbook-bridge-mautrix-meta-messenger.md) (optional)
- ~~[Setting up Mautrix Facebook bridging](configuring-playbook-bridge-mautrix-facebook.md)~~ - consider bridging to Facebook/Messenger using the new [mautrix-meta-messenger](./configuring-playbook-bridge-mautrix-meta-messenger.md) bridge (optional)
- ~~[Setting up Mautrix Instagram bridging](configuring-playbook-bridge-mautrix-instagram.md)~~ - consider bridging to Instagram using the new [mautrix-meta-instagram](./configuring-playbook-bridge-mautrix-meta-instagram.md) bridge (optional)
- [Setting up matrix-hookshot](configuring-playbook-bridge-hookshot.md) - a bridge between Matrix and multiple project management services, such as [GitHub](https://github.com), [GitLab](https://about.gitlab.com) and [JIRA](https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira). (optional)
- ~~[Setting up MX Puppet Skype bridging](configuring-playbook-bridge-mx-puppet-skype.md)~~ (optional) - this component has been broken for a long time, so it has been removed from the playbook. Consider [Setting up Go Skype Bridge bridging](configuring-playbook-bridge-go-skype-bridge.md)
- [Setting up matrix-bot-chatgpt](configuring-playbook-bot-chatgpt.md) - a bot through which you can talk to the [ChatGPT](https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/) model(optional)
- [Setting up matrix-registration-bot](configuring-playbook-bot-matrix-registration-bot.md) - a bot to create and manage registration tokens to invite users (optional)
- [Setting up Draupnir](configuring-playbook-bot-draupnir.md) - a moderation tool/bot, forked from Mjolnir and maintained by its former leader developer (optional)
- [Setting up Draupnir for all](configuring-playbook-appservice-draupnir-for-all.md) - like the [Draupnir bot](configuring-playbook-bot-draupnir.md) mentioned above, but running in appservice mode and supporting multiple instances (optional)
- [Setting up Buscarron](configuring-playbook-bot-buscarron.md) - a bot you can use to send any form (HTTP POST, HTML) to a (encrypted) Matrix room (optional)
- [Setting up borg backup](configuring-playbook-backup-borg.md) - a full Matrix server backup solution, including the Postgres database (optional)
- [Setting up postgres backup](configuring-playbook-postgres-backup.md) - a Postgres-database backup solution (note: does not include other files) (optional)
- [Setting up the Sliding Sync Proxy](configuring-playbook-sliding-sync-proxy.md) for clients which require Sliding Sync support (like Element X) (optional)
