The ansible guide I’m following calls this out specifically, that cpu and space requirements can exponentially increase if one of your local Matrix user accounts federates with an external instance. I’m wondering what happens if I use my external Matrix account to federate with my local instance however, if that would cause the same issue or not.

I’m pretty close to finalizing the playbook deployment. Just a couple small hurdles to get through. Copilot has helped me a bit with the deployment as I’m new to Ansible but between it and the guide I’m almost there.

I think my biggest challenge will be getting my external proxy working smoothly with it. I’m debating between using my already existing traefik proxy in my DMZ vs placing the whole Matrix server in the DMZ with local Traefik. If I can’t get it working with external proxy I will likely just move the VM into the DMZ and use it’s built in proxy instead.

I’ve also looked into sharkord but the main dev literally mentioned he was making that project for his works internal communications in one of his posts - huge no for me there.

I also tried self hosting Stoat but the containers aren’t talking nicely even on a base deployment.