BigBlueButton Docker

Features

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

Install

1. Install docker-ce & docker-compose
   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. Install docker-compose: https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/
   4. Ensure docker-compose works: $ docker-compose --version
2. Clone this repository

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

3. Run setup:

   $ ./scripts/setup
   

4. Start containers:

   $ ./scripts/compose up -d
   

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

   $ ./scripts/compose exec greenlight bundle exec rake admin:create
   

Note if you use a Firewall / NAT

Kurento binds somehow always to the external IP instead of the local one or 0.0.0.0. For that reason you need to add your external IP to your interface.

Temporary way (until next reboot)

$ ip addr add 144.76.97.34/32 dev ens3

Permanent way

Specific to your linux distribution. Use a search engine of your choice. ;)

Ports

Also don't forget to forward all necassary ports listed in http://docs.bigbluebutton.org/2.2/configure-firewall.html

Upgrading

cd bbb-docker

# if you use greenlight:
# create a database backup
docker exec -t docker_postgres_1 pg_dumpall -c -U postgres > /root/greenlight_`date +%d-%m-%Y"_"%H_%M_%S`.sql

# upgrade!
./scripts/upgrade

# restart updated services
./scripts/compose up -d

If you're on an old version, you might get following error:
no such file or directory: ./scripts/upgrade
A simple $ git pull resolves that, by fetching a newer version which includes the upgrade script.

Special thanks to

• @dkrenn, whos dockerized version (bigbluebutton#8858)(https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/8858) helped me a lot in understand and some configs.

Open Tasks

• add support for recording
• add prometheus exporter
• further separate bbb-core into individual container
• enable IPv6 support
• switch html5 to node v12
• drop root privileges in webrtc-sfu