spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy

With this project ( https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/ ), setting up the bridges gets a lot easier. After the initial setup, upgrading the bridges is painless.

Matrix has a really good ansible playbook that's easy to set up and keep updated with all the trimmings like bridges to other networks. https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy

I'm in the same boat. I manage my own server with tons of help from the ansible script(0) and it's generally been great for years. I can only assume our experience in private servers is way different than people logging into the matrix.org server or in extremely populated rooms? (0): https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy

You might get a kick out of Matrix if you haven't tried it yet. https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy is probably still the best way to get it and the bridges you need setup. It is far from perfect but decent.

…uff and want a version professionally supported by Element) If you're happy using docker-compose, then https://github.com/element-hq/element-docker-demo is a very simple template for getting going. Alternatively, https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy is quite popular as a 3rd-party distro using ansible-managed docker containers. Sorry all for the downtime on matrix.org - we're having to do a full 55TB db restore from backup which will take ~17 hours to run. :|