Web-app-fusiondirectory Role

Description: Web-based LDAP administration interface for managing users, groups, and directory objects

Variables

  • author: Kevin Veen-Birkenbach

  • description: Web-based LDAP administration interface for managing users, groups, and directory objects

  • license: Infinito.Nexus Community License (Non-Commercial)

  • company: Kevin Veen-Birkenbach https://www.veen.world

  • min_ansible_version: 2.9

  • platforms: [{‘name’: ‘ArchLinux’, ‘versions’: [‘all’]}, {‘name’: ‘Debian’, ‘versions’: [‘all’]}, {‘name’: ‘EL’, ‘versions’: [‘all’]}, {‘name’: ‘Fedora’, ‘versions’: [‘all’]}, {‘name’: ‘Ubuntu’, ‘versions’: [‘all’]}]

  • galaxy_tags: [‘fusiondirectory’, ‘ldap’, ‘docker’, ‘administration’]

  • issue_tracker_url: https://s.infinito.nexus/issues

README

FusionDirectory

🪦 End of life. The project no longer maintains or tests this role; use it at your own risk and turn to upstream FusionDirectory for support.

Description

FusionDirectory is a web-based LDAP administration tool that manages users, groups, and other directory objects through a pluggable interface. The application stores all of its data in an external LDAP directory, which makes it the natural front-end for the project’s svc-db-openldap backend.

Overview

This role deploys FusionDirectory on Docker Compose against the project’s central svc-db-openldap server. The OIDC variant gates the FusionDirectory web UI through web-app-keycloak’s SSO-proxy sidecar for SSO; the LDAP variant relies on the same FusionDirectory binding to svc-db-openldap as its primary auth path. RBAC follows the LDAP group model that FusionDirectory already understands natively, so no glue layer is required for authorisation mapping.

Cosmos

The diagram places FusionDirectory in the Infinito.Nexus cosmos: the components it deploys (capabilities), the central services it consumes (dependencies), and its outward reach (federation and bridged external networks).

flowchart LR
    subgraph deps [Dependencies]
        dep_svc_bkp_volume_2_local["svc-bkp-volume-2-local 💻"]
        dep_svc_db_openldap["svc-db-openldap 🐳🐝"]
        dep_svc_net_tor["svc-net-tor 🐳🐝"]
        dep_web_app_dashboard["web-app-dashboard 🐳🐝"]
        dep_web_app_keycloak["web-app-keycloak 🐳🐝"]
        dep_web_app_matomo["web-app-matomo 🐳🐝"]
        dep_web_app_prometheus["web-app-prometheus 🐳🐝"]
        dep_web_app_stalwart["web-app-stalwart 🐳🐝"]
        dep_web_svc_css["web-svc-css 💻"]
        dep_web_svc_logout["web-svc-logout 🐳🐝"]
    end
    subgraph role [web-app-fusiondirectory 🐳🐝]
        svc_logout["logout"]
        svc_dashboard["dashboard"]
        svc_prometheus["prometheus"]
        svc_tor["tor"]
        svc_email["email"]
        svc_matomo["matomo"]
        svc_ldap["ldap"]
        svc_sso["sso"]
        svc_fusiondirectory["fusiondirectory"]
        svc_css["css"]
        svc_container_backup["container_backup"]
    end
    dep_svc_bkp_volume_2_local -. "0..1" .-> svc_container_backup
    dep_svc_db_openldap -- "1:1" --> svc_ldap
    dep_svc_net_tor -. "0..1" .-> svc_tor
    dep_web_app_dashboard -. "0..1" .-> svc_dashboard
    dep_web_app_keycloak -. "0..1" .-> svc_sso
    dep_web_app_matomo -. "0..1" .-> svc_matomo
    dep_web_app_prometheus -. "0..1" .-> svc_prometheus
    dep_web_app_stalwart -. "0..1" .-> svc_email
    dep_web_svc_css -. "0..1" .-> svc_css
    dep_web_svc_logout -. "0..1" .-> svc_logout

Solid 1:1 edges are fixed relationships; dashed 0..1 edges are conditional (enabled only in matching deployments); red 0..0 edges are turned off in this role. Node markers show the role’s deploy modes (💻 host, 🐳 compose, 🐝 swarm); ❌ marks a service that is explicitly turned off, and ⚙️ an Ansible role dependency declared in meta/main.yml.

Features

  • LDAP-native administration: Manage users, groups, and posix attributes directly against svc-db-openldap.

  • Containerized deployment: Run FusionDirectory through Docker Compose with the project’s standard role-meta wiring.

  • Native OIDC SSO via SSO-proxy sidecar: Gate the FusionDirectory web UI through the project’s SSO-proxy sidecar (provided by web-app-keycloak) for OIDC-authenticated entry.

  • Front-proxy integration: Publish the app through sys-stk-front-proxy for TLS termination and per-domain routing.

Quick Setup

Development

Clone, set up the workstation, and deploy FusionDirectory onto the local stack:

git clone https://github.com/infinito-nexus/core.git
cd core
make onboard
make compose-deploy mode=reinstall apps=web-app-fusiondirectory full_cycle=false

Production

Run the published image to provision the inventory and deploy FusionDirectory to a managed server (the mounted volume persists the inventory):

APP=web-app-fusiondirectory
HOST=<your-server>
DOMAIN=<your-domain>
TLS_MODE=self_signed
SSH_PUBLIC_KEY="<your-ssh-public-key>"

docker run --rm -it \
  -v "$PWD/inventories:/etc/infinito.nexus/inventories" \
  -e APP="$APP" -e HOST="$HOST" -e DOMAIN="$DOMAIN" -e TLS_MODE="$TLS_MODE" -e SSH_PUBLIC_KEY="$SSH_PUBLIC_KEY" \
  ghcr.io/infinito-nexus/core/debian bash -c '
    INVENTORY=/etc/infinito.nexus/inventories/production
    infinito administration inventory provision "$INVENTORY" \
      --inventory-file "$INVENTORY/devices.yml" \
      --host "$HOST" \
      --include "$APP" \
      --vars "{\"TLS_MODE\": \"$TLS_MODE\", \"DOMAIN_PRIMARY\": \"$DOMAIN\", \"users\": {\"administrator\": {\"authorized_keys\": [\"$SSH_PUBLIC_KEY\"]}}}" &&
    infinito administration deploy dedicated "$INVENTORY/devices.yml" \
      --password-file "$INVENTORY/.password" \
      --diff -vv'

Further Resources

Persona contract opt-outs

The shared biber and administrator persona journeys are opted out via PERSONA_BIBER_BLOCKED / PERSONA_ADMINISTRATOR_BLOCKED in templates/playwright.env.j2. The oauth2-proxy sidecar only gates the vhost — FusionDirectory keeps its own LDAP-bind login behind it, which the role’s OIDC scenario in files/playwright/playwright.spec.js asserts by expecting a “Sign in” button to still be visible after the Keycloak round-trip. tasks/main.yml provisions no FusionDirectory account, so the Keycloak identity maps to no directory session the shared helpers could carry through to an in-app logout.

Credits

Implemented by Kevin Veen-Birkenbach. Part of the Infinito.Nexus Project and maintained by Kevin Veen-Birkenbach. Licensed under the Infinito.Nexus Community License (Non-Commercial).