Ansible Role for Gophernicus

This is an Ansible role for managing the deployment of the Gopernicus Gopher server software.

This role was put together quickly for my particular deployment and has only been tested on Ubuntu 21.04.

Visit my Gopher hole at gopher://jbeard.co

What This Role Does

• Installs the gophernicus package from OS repositories.
• Configures the Systemd service/socket
• Creates the content directories
• Manages the service/socket

Variables

Refer to defaults/main.yml.

gopher_hosts

Required list of hosts to serve.

This sets the -h argument and creates content directories.

Default: none

gopher_data_dir

Path for hosting Gopher content.

Default: /srv/gopher

gopher_start_args

Optional string of additional arguments to pass to the Gophernicus service.

Default: none