📦 BigBlueButton 3.0 Docker

Version: 3.0.4 | Changelog | Issues | Upgrading | Development

Features

• Easy installation
• Greenlight included
• TURN server included
• Fully automated HTTPS certificates
• Full IPv6 support
• Runs on any major linux distributon (Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS,...)

currently missing / broken

• NAT support
• bbb-transcription-controller
• livekit

Requirements

• 4GB of RAM
• Linux (it will not work under Windows/WSL)
• Root access (bbb-docker uses host networking, so it won't work with Kubernetes, any "CaaS"-Service, etc.)
• Public IPv4 (expect issues with a firewall / NAT)
• firewall allows internal networking (e.g. for ufw: ufw allow 10.7.7.0/24)
• git installed

Install production server

1. Ensure the requirements above are fulfilled (it really doesn't work without them)
2. Install docker-ce & docker-compose-plugin
   1. follow instructions
      • Debian: https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/debian/
      • CentOS: https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/centos/
      • Fedora: https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/fedora/
      • Ubuntu: https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/
   2. Ensure docker works with $ docker run hello-world
   3. Ensure you use a docker version ≥ 23.0 : $ docker --version
3. Clone this repository

   $ git clone https://github.com/bigbluebutton/docker.git bbb-docker
   $ cd bbb-docker
   
   # optional: use the more stable main branch (often much older)
   $ git checkout main 
   

4. Run setup:

   $ ./scripts/setup
   

5. (optional) Make additional configuration adjustments

   $ nano .env
   # always recreate the docker-compose.yml file after making any changes
   $ ./scripts/generate-compose
   

6. Start containers:

   $ docker compose up -d --no-build
   

7. If you use greenlight, you can create an admin account with:

   $ docker compose exec greenlight bundle exec rake admin:create
   

Development setup

1. Clone this repository

   $  git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/bigbluebutton/docker.git bbb-dev
   

2. Start dev server

   $ cd bbb-dev
   $ ./scripts/dev
   

3. Use API Mate with the link presented in the console to create & join a conference

Further How-To's

• Integration into an existing web server