Jitsi Meet in Glesys Cloud ­– this is how it's set up

Jitsi Meet is an open-source video-conferencing tool available as a one-click installer.

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Jitsi Meet is an open‑source video‑conferencing solution—completely free and easy to use. Some advantages of the service:

• Runs video calls directly in the browser (Chrome offers the best performance) on your computer. Apps are also available for iPhone and Android.

• Requires no account or login.

• Provides a fully encrypted solution.

VPS platform and operating system

A VPS on the new KVM platform is set up with the latest Ubuntu LTS.

The server receives the following specifications: 2 × vCPU, 2 GB RAM, and 10 GB storage.

Jitsi Meet and Docker

Jitsi Meet is deployed as a Docker container using Docker Compose.

You can find the configuration that is used on the server in the directory /root/docker-jitsi-meet/.env

To modify the configuration file, run the following commands:

Commands

sudo -i
cd /root/docker-jitsi-meet/
nano .env

Then, restart the service:

Command

docker-compose up -d

Firewall

A firewall is automatically configured and set up by Glesys in Ubuntu (UFW). SSH and the ports used by Jitsi Meet are allowed:

• SSH (TCP)

• HTTP (TCP)

• HTTPS (TCP)

• 10000:20000 (UDP) – these ports are used by Jitsi

Fail2ban

Fail2ban is installed and configured by Glesys.

Fail2ban is a smart tool that monitors log files for various services to detect brute‑force attacks and vulnerabilities. For example, if too many login attempts are made from a single IP address, that address is automatically blacklisted in the firewall.

Unattended upgrades

Unattended Upgrades is enabled by default in our Ubuntu template, and it is the same here. The scheduler unattended-upgrades is configured to install updated packages and security updates automatically.