Configuration
kazarma is configured using environment variables. It will refuse to start if the required variables are not provided.
For optional environment variables, defaults are the recommended values to run kazarma beside your homeserver, bridging only your own users.
You may also want to customize the frontend or enable observability features.
Database configuration
DATABASE_HOST
(required)
The host to reach PostgreSQL.
DATABASE_USERNAME
(required)
The SQL username.
DATABASE_PASSWORD
(required)
The SQL password.
DATABASE_DB
(required)
The SQL database.
Application service configuration
HOMESERVER_TOKEN
(required)
Token defined in the application service configuration file, will be used to authenticate the Matrix server against kazarma.
ACCESS_TOKEN
(required)
Token defined in the application service configuration file, will be used to authenticate kazarma against the Matrix server.
MATRIX_URL
(required)
URL to the Matrix server.
Addresses
ACTIVITY_PUB_DOMAIN
(required)
ActivityPub domain for puppet actors. If different than the host, you need to serve a file at domain/.well-known/host-meta
, containing a link to the real host, like this
PUPPET_PREFIX
Default: _ap_
Username prefix for Matrix puppet users that correspond to ActivityPub actors.
General configuration
HOST
(required)
Host for the kazarma application, used to generate URLs.
SECRET_KEY_BASE
(required)
Phoenix's secret key base, used to sign session cookies. With Mix and Phoenix, it can be easily generated with mix phx.gen.secret
.
BRIDGE_REMOTE
Default: false
True or false, whether kazarma should bridge Matrix users from different homeservers (than the one beside kazarma), to the ActivityPub network.
HTML_SEARCH
Default: false
True or false, whether to show the search field on kazarma HTML pages.
HTML_AP
Default: false
True or false, whether to display profiles for ActivityPub actors. It can help Matrix users to get the (puppet) Matrix ID to reach an ActivityPub actor.
Frontend customization
FRONTPAGE_HELP
Default: true
True or false, whether the frontend should display integrated help.
FRONTPAGE_BEFORE_TEXT
Default: ""
Text to show before kazarma introduction on the index page.
FRONTPAGE_AFTER_TEXT
Default: ""
Text to show after kazarma introduction on the index page.
Observability
SENTRY_DSN
Default: ``
Sentry DSN, if used.
RELEASE_LEVEL
Default: production
Release level, used in Sentry.
ENABLE_PROM_EX
Default: false
Enable Prometheus metrics.