Helm Chart for Jitsi Meet

jitsi-meet Secure, Simple and Scalable Video Conferences that you use as a standalone app or embed in your web application.

TL;DR;

helm repo add jitsi https://jitsi-contrib.github.io/jitsi-helm/
helm install myjitsi jitsi/jitsi-meet

Introduction

This chart bootstraps a jitsi-meet deployment, like the official one.

Different topology

To be able to do video conferencing with other people, the jvb component should be reachable by all participants (eg: a public IP). Thus the default behaviour of advertised the internal IP of jvb, is not really suitable in many cases. Kubernetes offers multiple possibilities to work around the problem. Not all options are available depending on the Kubernetes cluster setup. The chart tries to make all options available without enforcing one.

Option 1: service of type LoadBalancer

This requires a cloud setup that enables a Loadbalancer attachement. This could be enabled via values:

jvb:
  service:
    type: LoadBalancer

  # Depending on the cloud, publicIP cannot be know in advance, so deploy first, without the next option.
  # Next: redeploy with the following option set to the public IP you retrieved from the API.
  publicIP: 1.2.3.4

In this case you're not allowed to change the jvb.replicaCount to more than 1, UDP packets will be routed to random jvb, which would not allow for a working video setup.

Option 2: NodePort and node with Public IP or external loadbalancer

jvb:
  service:
    type: NodePort
  # It may be required to change the default port to a value allowed by Kubernetes (30000-32768)
  UDPPort: 30000
  TCPPort: 30443

  # Use public IP of one of your node, or the public IP of a loadbalancer in front of the nodes
  publicIP: 1.2.3.4

In this case you're not allowed to change the jvb.replicaCount to more than 1, UDP packets will be routed to random jvb, which would not allow for a working video setup.

Option 3: hostPort and node with Public IP

Assuming that the node knows the PublicIP it holds, you can enable this setup:

jvb:
  useHostPort: true
  # This option requires kubernetes >= 1.17
  useNodeIP: true

In this case you can have more the one jvb but you're putting you cluster at risk by having it directly exposed on the Internet.

Option 4: Use ingress TCP/UDP forward capabilities

In case of an ingress capable of doing tcp/udp forwarding (like nginx-ingress), it can be setup to forward the video streams.

# Don't forget to configure the ingress properly (separate configuration)
jvb:
  # 1.2.3.4 being one of the IP of the ingress controller
  publicIP: 1.2.3.4

Again in this case, only one jvb will work in this case.

Option 5: Bring your own setup

There are multiple other possibilities combining the available parameters, depending of your cluster/network setup.

Configuration

The following table lists the configurable parameters of the jisti-meet chart and their default values.

Parameter	Description	Default
imagePullSecrets	List of names of secrets resources containing private registry credentials	[]
enableAuth	Enable authentication	false
enableGuests	Enable guest access	true
jicofo.replicaCount	Number of replica of the jicofo pods	1
jicofo.image.repository	Name of the image to use for the jicofo pods	jitsi/jicofo
jicofo.extraEnvs	Map containing additional environment variables for jicofo	'{}'
jicofo.livenessProbe	Map that holds the liveness probe, you can add parameters such as timeout or retries following the Kubernetes spec	A livenessProbe map
jicofo.readinessProbe	Map that holds the liveness probe, you can add parameters such as timeout or retries following the Kubernetes spec	A readinessProbe map
jicofo.xmpp.user	Name of the XMPP user used by jicofo to authenticate	focus
jicofo.xmpp.password	Password used by jicofo to authenticate on the XMPP service	10 random chars
jicofo.xmpp.componentSecret	Values of the secret used by jicofo for the xmpp-component	10 random chars
jvb.service.enabled	Boolean to enable os disable the jvb service creation	false if jvb.useHostPort is true otherwise true
jvb.service.type	Type of the jvb service	ClusterIP
jvb.UDPPort	UDP port used by jvb, also affects port of service, and hostPort	10000
jvb.TCPPort	TCP port used by jvb, also affects port of service, and hostPort	4443
jvb.extraEnvs	Map containing additional environment variables to jvb	'{}'
jvb.xmpp.user	Name of the XMPP user used by jvb to authenticate	jvb
jvb.xmpp.password	Password used by jvb to authenticate on the XMPP service	10 random chars
jvb.livenessProbe	Map that holds the liveness probe, you can add parameters such as timeout or retries following the Kubernetes spec	A livenessProbe map
jvb.readinessProbe	Map that holds the liveness probe, you can add parameters such as timeout or retries following the Kubernetes spec	A readinessProbe map
jvb.metrics.enabled	Boolean that control the metrics exporter for jvb. If true the ServiceMonitor will also created	false
jvb.metrics.image.repository	Default image repository for metrics exporter	docker.io/systemli/prometheus-jitsi-meet-exporter
jvb.metrics.image.tag	Default tag for metrics exporter	1.1.5
jvb.metrics.image.pullPolicy	ImagePullPolicy for metrics exporter	IfNotPresent
jvb.metrics.serviceMonitor.enabled	ServiceMonitor for Prometheus	true
jvb.metrics.serviceMonitor.selector	Selector for ServiceMonitor	{ release: prometheus-operator }
jvb.metrics.serviceMonitor.interval	Interval for ServiceMonitor	10s
jvb.metrics.resources	Resources for the metrics container	{ requests: { cpu: 10m, memory: 16Mi }, limits: { cpu: 20m, memory: 32Mi } }
web.httpsEnabled	Boolean that enabled tls-termination on the web pods. Useful if you expose the UI via a Loadbalancer IP instead of an ingress	false
web.httpRedirect	Boolean that enabled http-to-https redirection. Useful for ingress that don't support this feature (ex: GKE ingress)	false
web.extraEnvs	Map containing additional environment variable to web pods	'{}'
web.livenessProbe	Map that holds the liveness probe, you can add parameters such as timeout or retries following the Kubernetes spec	A livenessProbe map
web.readinessProbe	Map that holds the liveness probe, you can add parameters such as timeout or retries following the Kubernetes spec	A readinessProbe map
tz	System Time Zone	Europe/Amsterdam

Package

helm package . -d docs
helm repo index docs --url https://jitsi-contrib.github.io/jitsi-helm/