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 # Peertube setup with Ansible and Docker-Compose
 
+This repo lets you easily setup a Peertube server based on docker-compose.
+
+## Features
+
+- automatic Let's Encrypt certificate handling via Traefik
+- file caching with nginx (to limit backend access and Peertube CPU usage)
+- email sending works out of the box
+
 ## Setup
 
+Clone the repo onto your local machine.
+
 Copy `inventory.example` to `inventory`, and configure the hosts you want to work with.
 
-Install Python and Ansible:
+Install Python and Ansible on your local machine:
 
     apt install python
     pip2 install ansible
@@ -13,4 +23,8 @@ Run the playbook:
 
     ansible-playbook --become peertube.yml
 
-Note: If you run this on an existing server, make sure the file `passwords/*your-server*/postgres` exists and contains the correct password. Otherwise Ansible will change the password in Peertube, and it won't be able to connect to the database.
+The first time you run it, Ansible will output the root password.
+
+Note: If you use this for an existing Peertube instance, make sure the file
+`passwords/*your-server*/postgres` exists and contains the correct password. Otherwise
+Ansible will change the password in Peertube, and it won't be able to connect to the database.