Sovereign is a set of Ansible playbooks that enable you to build and maintain a personal cloud or a self-hosted web services platform. It contains tools for email, VPN, static website hosting, file sharing, and more. The Sovereign project is open-source and available on Github. In this tutorial, we will walk you through how to install Sovereign on Clear Linux Latest, a free and open-source Linux distribution.
Before you begin this tutorial, you will need to:
Follow the below steps to install Sovereign on Clear Linux Latest:
To install Git, run the following command in the terminal:
sudo swupd bundle-add git
If Git is already installed, it will display a message indicating that the package is already up-to-date.
Next, you need to clone the Sovereign repository onto Clear Linux Latest. Run the following command in the terminal:
git clone https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign.git
This will create a new directory named sovereign containing all the code from the Github repository.
To install Ansible on Clear Linux Latest, run the following command in the terminal:
sudo swupd bundle-add ansible
If Ansible is already installed, this command will display a message indicating that the package is already up-to-date.
Sovereign requires specific settings to run correctly. In the sovereign directory, you will find a file named inventory/sample which contains examples of how to configure Ansible for different setups.
To use an example inventory for a single machine, update the required IP address or hostname in the file inventory/sample/single, then copy it to the inventory directory and name it single:
cp inventory/sample/single inventory/single
Next, open the inventory/single file using a text editor, and update the ansible_user and ansible_python_interpreter variables to match the system user and Python installation path for your Clear Linux Latest instance.
Finally, run the following command to execute Sovereign's Ansible playbook:
ansible-playbook -i inventory/single playbooks/site.yml
This command will take some time to complete, depending on your system's resources.
When the process completes, you can access the different services that you set up by navigating to their respective URLs in your web browser.
To verify that everything worked correctly, you can access the URL of the web server that you set up. For example, if you set up a static web server to host your website, you can navigate in your browser to http://localhost/, or replace localhost with the domain name or IP address of your server.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed Sovereign on Clear Linux Latest! It's a powerful and versatile tool that can provide you with a lot of useful services. You can experiment with different services and configurations to get the most out of Sovereign.
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