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Jitsi Meet on Docker

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Jitsi Meet is pretty good for video, and relatively easy to self-host, though you'll need some decent resources for it. The docker-jitsi-meet project[0] can get you started quickly

Signal's "source available" infra can be self-hosted but it's huge effort and relies on a bunch of cloud-specific services which need to be replaced with self-hostslable alternatives. It's also extremely poorly documented and the code quality is fairly mediocre. I wouldn't recommend trying to host Signal infra yourself; it can be done; I've done it at work and it took some months of effort, and maintaining it is a nightmare (or was, then at least) because they'd only push one huge update to GitHub quarterly or less often.

[0]https://github.com/jitsi/docker-jitsi-meet

Yes... but in one case the software is entirely FOSS and readily deployable via a docker image. The Zoom server is not FOSS, or even accessible through their GitHub.

https://github.com/jitsi/docker-jitsi-meet

I am also doing this, so I'll take the liberty of answering. There's a turnkey docker which should take a few minutes to install:

https://github.com/jitsi/docker-jitsi-meet

Put nginx in front of it with Let's Encrypt and it shouldn't take more than half an hour to set up. After that you basically get a clone of meet.jit.si.

I'm using it with the low level JS library in order to build a product that contains video chat. There was a bit more messing about for me, but only a bit.

I've been playing around with jitsi (https://jitsi.org/) and have been impressed. I may play around with deploying their server on aws this weekend (via this docker, most likely: https://github.com/jitsi/docker-jitsi-meet)
Well, it is indeed easy to self-host it if you happen to already have a https-reachable server running Debian on a common CPU instruction set.

Which I had, yet for maintenance reasons a container-based solution had my preference: https://github.com/jitsi/docker-jitsi-meet

If you use it via docker compose there is nothing hard to self host. I literally tried this out within minutes. A few more minutes to put it on the normal port with a real certificate.

https://github.com/jitsi/docker-jitsi-meet