BigBlueButton deployment to AWS

Workshop tutorial for Big Blue Button open source video conferencing software setup on AWS

Prereqs

• Bash shell with curl command available
• AWS CLI
• AWS Account / Credentials with enough privileges to manage EC2/VPC, IAM and SSM services.

Useful destinations

BigBlueButton OpenSource Distance learning software

BigBlueButton Github Org

BigBlueButton AWS Automation

Steps

THIS STEP IS NOT VALID, USE YOUR OWN ROUTE 53 HOSTED ZONE Step 1 - Create and register Route53 zone

Step 2 - Deploy BigBlueButton Server

Step 3 - Configure BigBlueButton

Step 4 - Use the admin console and invite other people

Cleanup

Advanced tasks for exercise

• Update CloudFormation Stack with AMI created by AWS Backup
• Convert from EC2 to ASG deployment mode
• Render CloudFormation templates without embedded VPC code