Fokus - System Engineering

In the last few months, we migrated our infrastructure from self-managed Linux hosts to a cloud setup with Kubernetes due to new requirements. The reasons for the migration were diverse: We needed better scalability due to multi-tenancy and on the operations side a more modern tooling and CI/CD (configuration as code) integration for faster deployments. In the following blog post we write about our journey, the problems we met and the current state of our infrastructure.

Due to the high demand of virtual meetings for a lot of different reasons (people working at home, schools trying to plan the schedule, teachers teaching remotely or parents trying to coordinate groups) the main platforms like Microsoft Teams, Skype, etc. are being used a lot. Those platforms are mostly hosted far away and increase the traffic between the countries. But what if a meeting server could easily be created and hosted in the same country where it is going to be used? Or even better just in the intranet? This is possible by using an open source meeting server. In this Tutorial I will be presenting the Jitsi Server, a easy to use meeting server.