FOSDEM 2021 video

The rough plan

Vasil's rough outline diagram

Testing and experimenting

• bbb install on Debian buster from ansible with ubuntu packages
• bbb-> voctomix: To pull an rtmp stream out of bbb, we'll need https://github.com/aau-zid/BigBlueButton-liveStreaming . This needs testing.
• voctomix frontend: Inspiration can be gleaned from:
  • https://github.com/FOSDEM/infrastructure/tree/master/ansible/playbooks/roles/video-control-server
  • https://salsa.debian.org/debconf-video-team/vogol

Production and scaling

Dimensioning

• BBB's freeswitch likes bare metal hardware or reserved cpu virtualisation. https://freeswitch.org/confluence/display/FREESWITCH/Performance+Testing+and+Configurations#PerformanceTestingandConfigurations-RecommendedConfigurations
• 4 threads for voctomix, 6 for bbb, so (Vasil's recommendation) either
  • hexacore dual thread/core bare metal
  • or vm's with 10 reserved threads

Guidelines

• We deploy on Debian stable.
• We use Debian packages from the debian repositories as much as possible. If we need something upstreamed, that can be looked at.
• We use ansible as the deployment tool.