The developers of the jitsi-meet project are currently working in a impressive speed. From release to release there are so many changes, that only a reinstall makes sense.
So I’ve automated the installation of jitsi.
The jitsi-meet Debian packages require user input at the installation.
This can be prevented with the debconf tool. It lets you predefine
the parameters.
Find the parameters
To get the parameters from a package, the debian package debconf-utils is
required. After the installation we can use the tool debconf-get-selections
to get the parameters:
debconf-get-selections | grep -P "(jibri|jicofo|jigasi|jitsi)"
Set parameters
Attention: If you predefine too many parameters, dpkg thinks this is a update and don’t do a initial setup. So just define the parameters which the package asks for during the installation.
With a Shell:
echo "jitsi-videobridge2 jitsi-videobridge/jvb-hostname string meet.example.com" | debconf-set-selections
echo "jitsi-meet-web-config jitsi-meet/cert-choice select Generate a new self-signed certificate (You will later get a chance to obtain a Let's encrypt certificate)" | debconf-set-selections
With Ansible:
- name: "Configure jitsi-meet package"
debconf:
name: "jitsi-videobridge2"
question: "jitsi-videobridge/jvb-hostname"
vtype: "string"
value: "meet.example.com"
- name: "Configure jitsi-meet package"
debconf:
name: "jitsi-meet-web-config"
question: "jitsi-meet/cert-choice"
vtype: "select"
value: "Generate a new self-signed certificate (You will later get a chance to obtain a Let's encrypt certificate)"
At the installation with apt-get, all additional dialogs should be gone.
