README.md

Jitsi on demand

For quite a long time I was looking for a solution that would allow me to schedule meetings with friends, family, and clients. Most of them are paid every month. Which is not a very cost-effective solution, if I have one meeting per month, sometimes two. Also let's assume, that being an AI learning material for Google, or Zoom isn't my dream position.

Suddenly, I realized that I could use Jitsi, and then self-host it. The problem was that I was looking for an on-demand solution. So I took the official docker image, and rewritten it into ECS, which just works.

How it works?

Or what do you need? The assumption is that you have:

1. Registred domain with Route53.
2. Some ideas about AWS.
3. Access to manage needed solutions.
4. Installed AWS CDK.

When you need:

1. Adjust the src/main.ts file.

const devEnv = {
  account: '471112990549', // put your account ID here
  region: 'eu-central-1', // put your region here
};

const DOMAIN_NAME: string = '3sky.in'; // adjust your domain name
const JITSI_IMAGE_VERSION: string = 'stable-9584-1'; // specify jitsi version

1. Execute cdk deploy --all in the project root directory.

Topic to consider

1. Images are hosted on quay.io, not on dockerhub.io due rate limit.
2. The solution could be built inside existing VPC, which will be faster.
3. However, setting up existing project is rather fast.

cdk deploy --all --require-approval never  10.90s user 1.22s system 3% cpu 6:38.00 total