Terraform Jisti Setup

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This repository contains the terraform script to setup jitsi now AWS.

AWS Resources covered in this setup

• VPC (Public Subnet, Private Subnets, Security Group)
• ECS container with EC2 as a container instance(ECS container, 1 ECS Task Definition)
• EC2 Lunch Configuration
• Security Groups
• IAM role, Instance Role, and Instance Profile
• Auto Scaling and Load Balancer

Setup Terraform

• If you don't have Terraform set up on your machine(Local or ec2) please follow this link to configure Download Terraform Configure Terraform

Setup Terraform user profile

• Open provider.tf
• Add the AWS-CLI profile name the same as we add a profile for s3 backend configuration.

provider "aws" {
  region  = "${var.region}"
  profile = "<AWS-CLI PROFILE NAME>" //If you run this script using AWS EC2 of CodePipeline remove this line
}

Add terraform.tfvars file

• If setting up the first time, copy the sample variables to terraform variables.

cp terraform.sample.tfvars terraform.tfvars

It will create terraform.tfvars file.

Note: we need to run the following command because recently jitsi update their security policy so we need to pass a strong password

./gen-passwords.sh

It will update the value of the following variables of terraform.tfvars.

JICOFO_COMPONENT_SECRET
JICOFO_AUTH_PASSWORD
JVB_AUTH_PASSWORD
JIGASI_XMPP_PASSWORD
JIBRI_RECORDER_PASSWORD
JIBRI_XMPP_PASSWORD

These variables are used in the task definition file.

• terraform.tfvars has all the required environment variables required for the terraform setup.
• Once all changes done we are ready to deploy our terraform.
• Run terraform plan to verify all created resources.
• Run terraform apply to create all resources on the AWS account given region.
• If you want to delete infrastructure run terraform destroy.

For more information please follow our medium article terraform-jisti-aws-ecs