From b754c2778b38698002b575d0c6e68a0c17495dd3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Slavi Pantaleev Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 11:39:58 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Announce Synapse workers support --- CHANGELOG.md | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md index 540312684..3138a96ae 100644 --- a/CHANGELOG.md +++ b/CHANGELOG.md @@ -1,3 +1,18 @@ +# 2021-02-19 + +## Synapse workers support + +After [lots and lots of work](https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/pull/456) (done over many months by [Marcel Partap](https://github.com/eMPee584), [Max Klenk](https://github.com/maxklenk), a few others from the [Technical University of Dresden, Germany](https://tu-dresden.de/) and various other contributors), support for Synapse workers has finally landed. + +Having support for workers makes the playbook suitable for larger homeserver deployments. + +Our setup is not yet perfect (we don't support all types of workers; scaling some of them (like `pusher`, `federation_sender`) beyond a single instance is not yet supported). Still, it's a great start and can already power homeservers with thousands of users, like the [Matrix deployment at TU Dresden](https://doc.matrix.tu-dresden.de/en/) discussed in [Matrix Live S06E09 - TU Dresden on their Matrix deployment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHJX2pmT2gk). + +By default, workers are disabled and Synapse runs as a single process (homeservers don't necessarily need the complexity and increased memory requirements of running a worker-based setup). + +To enable Synapse workers, follow our [Load balancing with workers](docs/configuring-playbook-synapse.md#load-balancing-with-workers) documentation. + + # 2021-02-12 ## (Potential Breaking Change) Monitoring/metrics support using Prometheus and Grafana