calibre

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Calibre

Calibre-Web using Calibre as a backend, with optional feature support.

Requirements

The Calibre binaries themselves have security considerations to make and should be run in an untrusted environment:

vars/calibre.yml.

Role Variables

Settings have been throughly documented for usage. Extensive configuration information is contained in:

defaults/main/main.yml.

Dependencies

N/A

Example Playbook

host_vars/calibre.example.com/vars/calibre.yml

calibre_create_user: true
calibre_library:     '/data/library'
# Calibre-Web root user. This user will automatically be created and have root.
calibre_root_name:     'example-admin-user'
calibre_root_email:    ''
calibre_root_password: '{{ vault_calibre_root_password }}'

site.yml

- name:   'calibre server'
  hosts:  'calibre.example.com'
  become: true
  roles:
    - 'r_pufky.calibre'

Reverse Proxy

Calibre should be run behind a reverse proxy given the security concerns.

NGINX

upstream books-backend {
  server {{ calibre_host }}:{{ calibre_server_port }};
}

server {
  listen 443 ssl http2;
  server_name books.{{ domain }} books;

  client_max_body_size 20M;
  location / {
    proxy_bind       $server_addr;
    proxy_set_header Host            $http_host;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header X-Scheme        $scheme;
    proxy_pass http://books-backend;
  }
}