Web-app-joomla Role

Description: Open-source content management system for building websites, intranets, and online applications without writing code

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• author: Kevin Veen-Birkenbach

• description: Open-source content management system for building websites, intranets, and online applications without writing code

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

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

• galaxy_tags: [‘joomla’, ‘docker’, ‘cms’, ‘content management’, ‘self-hosted’]

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

• 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’]}]

README

Joomla

Description

Joomla is a free and open-source content management system that lets users build and run websites, intranets, and online applications without writing code. It exposes a component, module, and plugin architecture that authors and developers extend with custom content types, layouts, and integrations.

Overview

This role deploys Joomla on Docker Compose. It builds a custom Joomla image that bakes in Composer for runtime extension builds, runs the Joomla CLI installer with the role’s database, and installs the in-role plg_system_keycloak plugin so the site speaks OIDC against Keycloak with RBAC group mapping. A matrix-deploy variant flips the role to LDAP via Joomla’s core LDAP authentication plugin instead.

For the OIDC plugin source and its environment contract see README.md.

Cosmos

The diagram places Joomla 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_mariadb["svc-db-mariadb 🐳🐝"]
        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-joomla 🐳🐝]
        svc_sso["sso"]
        svc_ldap["ldap ❌"]
        svc_logout["logout"]
        svc_dashboard["dashboard"]
        svc_matomo["matomo"]
        svc_email["email"]
        svc_mariadb["mariadb"]
        svc_joomla["joomla"]
        svc_css["css"]
        svc_prometheus["prometheus"]
        svc_tor["tor"]
        svc_container_backup["container_backup"]
    end
    dep_svc_bkp_volume_2_local -. "0..1" .-> svc_container_backup
    dep_svc_db_mariadb -. "0..1" .-> svc_mariadb
    dep_svc_db_openldap -- "0..0" --> 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
    linkStyle 2 stroke:red;

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.

Addons

Role-level extensions are declared in `meta/addons/ <./meta/addons/>`__ (unified addon contract, requirement 026):

Addon	Mechanism	Default state	Bridges
plg _system_k eycloak	plugin	enabled whenever the sso service is present (web-app-keycloak co-deployed)	sso → web-ap p-keycloak

plg_system_keycloak is built imperatively inside the Joomla container and speaks OIDC against Keycloak. Its enablement derives directly from the sso service flag, and its OIDC runtime contract (issuer, client id/secret, redirect/end-session URLs, fallback toggle, and RBAC group paths) lives under the addon’s config: block, which `templates/env.j2 <./templates/env.j2>`__ renders into the JOOMLA_OIDC_* plugin environment.

Features

• Containerized deployment: Run Joomla through Docker Compose with the role-specific custom image.

• Native OIDC SSO: Authenticate users against Keycloak via the in-role plg_system_keycloak plugin, with ?fallback=local as an env-toggleable emergency hatch.

• RBAC group mapping: Map Keycloak group paths onto Joomla’s built-in Super Users, Editor, and Registered user groups inside the plugin.

• LDAP variant: Switch to Joomla’s core LDAP plugin via the role’s matrix-deploy variant 1, for sites that prefer direct LDAP federation.

• External database: Persist Joomla content in the project’s central RDBMS through the standard role-meta wiring.

• NGINX reverse proxy: Front the Joomla container with the project’s sys-stk-front-proxy for TLS termination and per-domain routing.

Quick Setup

Development

Clone, set up the workstation, and deploy Joomla 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-joomla full_cycle=false

Production

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

APP=web-app-joomla
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'

Developer Notes

See README.md for the OIDC plugin’s manifest, services provider, runtime environment, and route map.

End-to-end tests

The Playwright spec at `playwright.spec.js <./files/playwright/playwright.spec.js>`__ currently exercises the administrator path only: Keycloak SSO into the admin backend plus the local form-login emergency hatch (?fallback=local). The non-admin RBAC path via the canonical biber user is not yet covered.

Until the biber path is added:

• the role’s `playwright.env.j2 <./templates/playwright.env.j2>`__ MUST NOT carry stale BIBER_USERNAME / BIBER_PASSWORD keys (the lint at `test_env_keys_used.py <../../tests/lint/ansible/roles/web-app/playwright/test_env_keys_used.py>`__ enforces this);

• the admin scenarios stay gated on oidc (and on ldap for the LDAP-variant scenarios), so a deploy with disable=oidc reports the SSO scenario as skipped, never failed.

Further Resources

• Joomla Official Website

• Joomla Documentation

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. Joomla’s site template ships no login/logout module, and plg_system_keycloak exposes sign-out only as the route index.php?option=keycloak&task=logout (files/joomla-oidc-plugin/plg_system_keycloak/src/Extension/Keycloak.php, handleLogout) rather than as a rendered control, so the persona’s mandatory in-app logout click has no target and navigating a logout URL directly is forbidden by the contract. The OIDC handshake itself, the LDAP variant and the /administrator?fallback=local hatch are covered by files/playwright/test-oidc-login.js, test-ldap-login.js and test-oidc-fallback.js.

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).