mattybell/bbblb-chef-cookbook

Chef cookbook for BigBlueButton load balancer

BBBLoadBalancer-cookbook

You can use this cookbook to setup a BigBlueButton load balancer with Chef

Chef cookbook

Dependencies

• Chef DK

BBBLoadBalancer::default

Include BBBLoadBalancer in your node's run_list:

{
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[BBBLoadBalancer::default]"
  ]
}

Vagrant

dependencies

• Chef DK

vagrant required modules

$ vagrant plugin install vagrant-berkshelf
$ vagrant plugin install vagrant-omnibus

Change salt string in Vagrantfile

chef.json = {
  bbb: {
    salt: 'ce704dc886e34675cd47630298de8022'
  }
}

Start Vagrant box

$ vagrant up

Adding BBB Servers to the load balancer

Access the web interface: http://loadbalancerserverip The first time you access this page, you must create an admin user. After creating this user, you can manage the BBB load balancer. You need to add at least 1 BBB server to the list of servers before you can use the load balancer. After setting up the load balancer, you should change your client applications BBB url to the new BBB load balancer URL. (http://loadbalancerserverip/bigbluebutton)