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Show HN: Terraform recipe for running Jitsi Meet on DigitalOcean

23 points by aborrero 6y ago

SPascareli13 6y ago
I wonder how powerful of a droplet you need to run a jitsi server with a few dozen people in video chat.
- secfirstmd 6y ago
  It's been a few years but I remember our one needed at least 8gb ram
- aborrero 6y ago
  As I replied on the comment above, yesterday with the selected droplet (s-2vcpu-4gb) we were able to have a meeting with 10 people without any issues. The minimum official requirements on the page are the following (https://jitsi.org/news/new-tutorial-installing-jitsi-meet-on-your-own-linux-server/ https://jitsi.org/news/new-tutorial-installing-jitsi-meet-on...) are: - 1Gb of RAM - 2Ghz of CPU - 25GB of disk An amount that s-2vcpu-4gb surpass easily. Today I would like to test it with even more people. Whenever I have more stats I'll put an update on the repository's README. Thanks for dropping a comment :)
sadness2 6y ago
Thank you for this generous offering! Do you have any tips around expected costs or power/performance requirement?
- aborrero 6y ago
  Hi! Right now I'm using it with s-2vcpu-4gb droplet and yesterday I had a meeting with 10 people without any problem. The CPU were at 26% on average, the inbound traffic at 13 Mbps and the outbound 40. Disk usage were negligible. Today I'm going to try with even smaller droplets to see how far I can push it :) Keep in mind that the selected droplet costs around $0.030 per hour so that's $20 per month. The good part is you can tear this setup down very easily, so you can save money whenever you're not using it.
comice 6y ago
hey nice work. I did the same thing but for Brightbox: https://github.com/brightbox/deploy-jitsi https://github.com/brightbox/deploy-jitsi realised I've not licensed it properly though! will sort that out tomorrow. blogged about it here: https://www.brightbox.com/blog/2020/03/30/how-to-install-jitsi-on-brightbox/ https://www.brightbox.com/blog/2020/03/30/how-to-install-jit... took me a while to sort out the fqdn config change, did you get that working?
- aborrero 6y ago
  Hi! Thanks for sharing! Yup it does! The original script comes from https://github.com/AvasDream/terraform_aws_jitsi_meet https://github.com/AvasDream/terraform_aws_jitsi_meet with minor tweaks (it's acknowledged in the README, he's the hero).
gitgud 6y ago
What's the difference between this and the [1] Digital Ocean Marketplace Jitsi server? I think you can make one-click installs pretty easily with marketplace apps... [1] https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/jitsi-server https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/jitsi-server

23 points by aborrero 6y ago

SPascareli13 6y ago

I wonder how powerful of a droplet you need to run a jitsi server with a few dozen people in video chat.

secfirstmd 6y ago
It's been a few years but I remember our one needed at least 8gb ram
aborrero 6y ago
As I replied on the comment above, yesterday with the selected droplet (s-2vcpu-4gb) we were able to have a meeting with 10 people without any issues. The minimum official requirements on the page are the following (https://jitsi.org/news/new-tutorial-installing-jitsi-meet-on-your-own-linux-server/ https://jitsi.org/news/new-tutorial-installing-jitsi-meet-on...) are: - 1Gb of RAM - 2Ghz of CPU - 25GB of disk An amount that s-2vcpu-4gb surpass easily. Today I would like to test it with even more people. Whenever I have more stats I'll put an update on the repository's README. Thanks for dropping a comment :)

sadness2 6y ago

Thank you for this generous offering! Do you have any tips around expected costs or power/performance requirement?

aborrero 6y ago
Hi! Right now I'm using it with s-2vcpu-4gb droplet and yesterday I had a meeting with 10 people without any problem. The CPU were at 26% on average, the inbound traffic at 13 Mbps and the outbound 40. Disk usage were negligible. Today I'm going to try with even smaller droplets to see how far I can push it :) Keep in mind that the selected droplet costs around $0.030 per hour so that's $20 per month. The good part is you can tear this setup down very easily, so you can save money whenever you're not using it.

comice 6y ago

hey nice work. I did the same thing but for Brightbox: https://github.com/brightbox/deploy-jitsi https://github.com/brightbox/deploy-jitsi realised I've not licensed it properly though! will sort that out tomorrow. blogged about it here: https://www.brightbox.com/blog/2020/03/30/how-to-install-jitsi-on-brightbox/ https://www.brightbox.com/blog/2020/03/30/how-to-install-jit... took me a while to sort out the fqdn config change, did you get that working?

aborrero 6y ago
Hi! Thanks for sharing! Yup it does! The original script comes from https://github.com/AvasDream/terraform_aws_jitsi_meet https://github.com/AvasDream/terraform_aws_jitsi_meet with minor tweaks (it's acknowledged in the README, he's the hero).

gitgud 6y ago

What's the difference between this and the [1] Digital Ocean Marketplace Jitsi server? I think you can make one-click installs pretty easily with marketplace apps... [1] https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/jitsi-server https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/jitsi-server