[liberationtech] Running your own secure communication service with Matrix and Jitsi

[Yosem Companys]

Over the last few weeks there's been huge  increase in interest from folks
wanting the security and autonomy of running their remote collaboration
services, rather than being at the mercy of traditional proprietary centralised
apps. Meanwhile, the Matrix.org homeserver has been very overloaded (although
we're at last making excellent progress in radically improving Synapse's
performance) - so it's particularly important right now to help folks run their
own servers.
Therefore we're very happy to announce that it's easier than ever before now to
self-host your own video conferencing alongside Riot & Synapse: as of Riot/Web
1.5.15 (released last week), it's now a single config option to point Riot at a
specific Jitsi rather than needing to hook up to an integration manager!
Meanwhile, over the last 18 months, it's got easier and easier to run your own
Matrix deployments: the Debian packages are unrecognisably better now, and with
.well-known URL support it's trivial to set up federation without needing to
worry about complicated DNS, TLS or load balancer configurations.
So, to try to show off just how smooth this has become, we thought we'd do a
run-through video showing installing Synapse, Riot & Jitsi on a completely fresh
Debian install. It's (almost) filmed in a single shot, and takes about 20
minutes from beginning to end.
Please note that this does assume you're pretty familiar with Linux system
administration. If you're not, then we'd recommend using a Matrix hosting
provider such as Modular.im (which directly supports development of the core
team), Ungleich.ch, or StartupStack.
Finally, while the video shows how to install on Debian via Debian packages,
there are many many  other environments and architectures (e.g. installing under
Docker) - this is just one relatively easy way to skin the cat. Perhaps there
will be other 'speed-run' videos in future :)
https://matrix.org/blog/2020/04/06/running-your-own-secure-communication-service-with-matrix-and-jitsi
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