Jitsi Meet is a free and open-source video-conferencing application that allows you to host your own video conferencing server without any subscription. It provides multi-person video conference rooms and allows you to access them from your web browser. It provides end-to-end TLS encryption so that no one can snoop on the call. Deploying Jitsi meet in the Docker container will save you a lot of time.
In this post, we will show you how to Deploy Jitsi Meet with Docker and Docker Compose on Ubuntu 20.04.
Prerequisites
- A fresh Ubuntu 20.04 server on the Atlantic.Net Cloud Platform
- A root password configured on your server
Step 1 – Create Atlantic.Net Cloud Server
First, log in to your Atlantic.Net Cloud Server. Create a new server, choosing Ubuntu 20.04 as the operating system with at least 4GB RAM. Connect to your Cloud Server via SSH and log in using the credentials highlighted at the top of the page.
Once you are logged in to your Ubuntu 20.04 server, run the following command to update your base system with the latest available packages.
apt-get update -y
Step 2- Install Docker and Docker Compose
First, you will need to install some required dependencies on your server. You can install them with the following command:
apt-get install git apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupg-agent software-properties-common -y
After installing all of them, add the Docker repository with the following command:
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | apt-key add - add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable"
Once the repository is added, install Docker and Docker Compose with the following command:
apt-get install docker-ce docker-compose -y
After installing both packages, you can proceed to the next step.
Step 3 – Download and Configure Jitsi Meet
Next, you will need to download Jitsi Meet for Docker from the Git repository. You can download it with the following command:
git clone https://github.com/jitsi/docker-jitsi-meet.git
Once the download is completed, change the directory to the downloaded directory and copy the sample environment file.
cd docker-jitsi-meet cp env.example .env
Next, edit the .env file and define your server IP, ports, domain, and email address.
nano .env
Change the following lines:
HTTP_PORT=80 HTTPS_PORT=443 TZ=UTC PUBLIC_URL="https://jitsi.linuxbuz.com" DOCKER_HOST_ADDRESS=your-server-ip ENABLE_HTTP_REDIRECT=1 ENABLE_LETSENCRYPT=1 LETSENCRYPT_DOMAIN=jitsi.linuxbuz.com [email protected]
Save and close the file when you are finished.
Step 4 – Launch the Jitsi Meet Container
You can now launch the Jitsi Meet container with the following command:
docker-compose up -d
You should see the following output:
Status: Downloaded newer image for jitsi/jvb:latest Creating docker-jitsi-meet_web_1 ... done Creating docker-jitsi-meet_prosody_1 ... done Creating docker-jitsi-meet_jvb_1 ... done Creating docker-jitsi-meet_jicofo_1 ... done
You can now check the running container with the following command:
docker-compose ps
You should get the following output:
Name Command State Ports -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- docker-jitsi-meet_jicofo_1 /init Up docker-jitsi-meet_jvb_1 /init Up 0.0.0.0:10000->10000/udp,:::10000->10000/udp, 0.0.0.0:4443->4443/tcp,:::4443->4443/tcp docker-jitsi-meet_prosody_1 /init Up 5222/tcp, 5280/tcp, 5347/tcp docker-jitsi-meet_web_1 /init Up 0.0.0.0:443->443/tcp,:::443->443/tcp, 0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp,:::80->80/tcp
As you can see, the Jitsi Meet container is started and listen on ports 80 and 443.
Step 5 – Access Jitsi Meet Web UI
Now, you can access the Jitsi Meet web interface using the URL https://your-domain-name. You should see the Jitsi Meed dashboard on the following page:
Conclusion
Congratulations! You have successfully deployed Jitsi Meet with Docker on Ubuntu 20.04. Docker makes your job easier when it comes to deploying an application within a minute – get started on dedicated hosting from Atlantic.Net.
