The Home Server Journey - 4: Enter The Matrix

• xmpp.org

  2 274 9.2 HTML

  xmpp.org website (builds: https://github.com/xsf/xmpp.org/actions)

  

  If you're a old school person wishing to host your own messaging, I bet you'd go for IRC or XMPP. But I'm more of a late millennial, so it's easier to get drawn to fancy stuff like Matrix, a protocol for federated communication

• SaaSHub

  www.saashub.com featured

  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

• nfs-subdir-external-provisioner

  49 2,602 2.6 Shell

  Dynamic sub-dir volume provisioner on a remote NFS server.

  

  Phew, and that's just the first part of it! Not only you have to do the same process for every machine whose storage you wish to share, but afterwards it's necessary to install a NFS provisioner to the K8s cluster. Here I have used nfs-subdir-external-provisioner, not as-it-is, but modifying 2 manifest files to my liking:

• RocksDB

  46 28,724 9.8 C++

  A library that provides an embeddable, persistent key-value store for fast storage.

  

  One thing you should know is that the K8s architecture is optimized for stateless applications, which don't store changing information within themselves and whose output depend solely on input from the user or auxiliary processes. Conduit, on the contrary, is tightly coupled with its high-performance database, RocksDB, and has stateful behavior. That's why we need to take extra care by not replicating our process in order to prevent data races when accessing storage

• Synapse

  369 11,720 9.8 Python

  Discontinued Synapse: Matrix homeserver written in Python/Twisted.

  

  As any open protocol, the Matrix specification has a number of different implementations, most famously Synapse (Python) and Dendrite (Go). I've been, however, particularly endeared to Conduit, a lightweight Matrix server written in Rust. Here I'll show the deployment configuration as recommended by its maintainer, Timo Kösters:

• nheko

  20 1,964 9.2 C++

  Desktop client for Matrix using Qt and C++20.

  

  With your instance running, you can now use Matrix clients [that support registration tokens] like Element or Nheko to register your user, login and have fun!

• dendrite

  43 5,750 8.6 Go

  Discontinued Dendrite is a second-generation Matrix homeserver written in Go!

  

  As any open protocol, the Matrix specification has a number of different implementations, most famously Synapse (Python) and Dendrite (Go). I've been, however, particularly endeared to Conduit, a lightweight Matrix server written in Rust. Here I'll show the deployment configuration as recommended by its maintainer, Timo Kösters:

• sydent

  718 303 4.9 Python

  Sydent: Reference Matrix Identity Server

  

  If you're a old school person wishing to host your own messaging, I bet you'd go for IRC or XMPP. But I'm more of a late millennial, so it's easier to get drawn to fancy stuff like Matrix, a protocol for federated communication

• conduit

  19 - -

  Currently, at version 0.8, automatically delegation via env vars is not working properly. Timo has helped me debug it (Thanks!) at Conduit's Matrix room and I have submitted a patch. Let's hope it gets fixed for 0.9. Meanwhile, you may use the custom image I'm referencing in the configuration example

• Element

  621 11,258 10.0 TypeScript

  A glossy Matrix collaboration client for the web.

  

  With your instance running, you can now use Matrix clients [that support registration tokens] like Element or Nheko to register your user, login and have fun!

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