Running jitsi on debian 11

Jitsi is an open-source conferencing application which can be self-hosted. This short post demonstrates the installation and usage on a new debian 11.

Scope: Jitsi is installed on a debian 11 which is bootstraped from a minimal package set and run as virtual machine by kvm and qemu. This version runs everything on the same machine. For higher performance use multiple virtual machines which are running seperate jvb’s.

Install the package source with:

1apt install gpg
2curl https://download.jitsi.org/jitsi-key.gpg.key | sh -c 'gpg --dearmor > /usr/share/keyrings/jitsi-keyring.gpg'
3echo 'deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/jitsi-keyring.gpg] https://download.jitsi.org stable/' | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jitsi-stable.list
4apt update

Jitsi needs a bunch of ports to be open. Some are needed for the final webservice thus these ports are needed to be available from the internet. The following table shows the port and usage overview.