Terraform Recipe: Boot a single Jitsi Video conferencing instance on OVHCloud

Description

This recipe helps you bootstrap a simple Jitsi instance on OVHCloud.

This could be very useful for small teams/companies which could have an urging need of a simple videoconferencing solution due to covid19.

This is a very simple and stupid deployment, only secured with https and basic firewalling feature. To use with CAUTION.

Requirements

• an OVHCloud public cloud project.
• Hashicorp terraform

Getting Started

1. Create your Openstack API clouds.yaml file.

mkdir -p ~/.config/openstack
cat >> ~/.config/openstack/clouds.yaml <<EOF
clouds:
  jitsi:
    auth:
      auth_url: https://auth.cloud.ovh.net/v3/
      domain_name: default
      password: XXX
      project_domain_name: default
      project_name: 'YYY'
      user_domain_name: default
      username: ZZZ
    region_name: REGION
EOF

2. Create a tfvar file and edit accordingly

cp myvars.tfvars.example myvars.tfvars

3. apply your plan

terraform init
...
terraform apply
...

4. Go to you private meeting space.

Ssh into the machine

You can ssh into the VM by copy/pasting the result of the following command:

terraform output ssh_helper

Destroy the infrastructure

If you want to destroy all the resources associated with this plan, run the following command:

terraform destroy

Troubleshooting

• You encounter connectivity issues

Maybe the instance is to small. Try a bigger flavor.

• This service is not HA, installed with dummy defaults. If you need a more reliable service, try a professional one. You can try with jitsi.org services for a start.

License

The 3-Clause BSD License. See LICENSE for full details.