Install Jitsi Meet Docker Container in Proxmox

Architecture :

https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/devops-guide/devops-guide-docker

Documentation

https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/devops-guide/devops-guide-docker

Doing the Docker installation

Run these commands

sudo su -

apt update

apt install unzip -y

mkdir /opt/stacks/jitsi -p

cd /opt/stacks/jitsi

Download and extract the latest release.

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

We will chose : https://github.com/jitsi/docker-jitsi-meet/archive/refs/tags/stable-9823.zip

wget https://github.com/jitsi/docker-jitsi-meet/archive/refs/tags/stable-9823.zip

Unzip the package:

unzip stable-9823.zip

ls -la

cd docker-jitsi-meet-stable-9823/

Create a .env file by copying and adjusting env.example:

cp env.example .env

ls -la

Set strong passwords in the security section options of .env file by running the following bash script

./gen-passwords.sh


# Change the port to 8900
nano .env

nano docker-compose.yml

# copy .env file to Jitsi root folder
cp .env ../

# copy docker-compose.yml file to Jitsi root folder
cp docker-compose.yml ../

# change directory to Jitsi root folder
cd ../

Create required CONFIG directories (for Linux / Proxmox ESX)

mkdir -p ~/.jitsi-meet-cfg/{web,transcripts,prosody/config,prosody/prosody-plugins-custom,jicofo,jvb,jigasi,jibri}

Start Container in Detached mode

Run this command :

docker compose up -d

Open in Dockge

Open Jitsi Server

localhost:8900

http://tiger.loseyourip.com:8900/