Describe BigBlueButtonRebuild here.

Rebuild Procedure

VM and Operating System

• Back up previous VM
• Change IP address of previous VM to another IP in UCC Machine Room range
• Create new VM on UCC Proxmox cluster
  • New VM config is 8GB, 8 cores, defaults for most things
  • New VM storage is 32G, on vmstore_ssd

• Install base operating system for BigBlueButton

  • Ubuntu 18.04 (via netboot.xyz.iso)
• Provision on network with original VM IP address
• Add UCC wheel keys to root user and permit root logins remotely via SSH

UCC SOE

The UCC Ansible SOE https://gitlab.ucc.asn.au/ucc-systems/ucc-ansible-soe has a playbook for making the new BigBlueButton host a UCC server.

• If not already present, add the host to ucc-hosts inventory under bbb-hosts
• Run the playbook

ansible-playbook -K -i ucc-hosts bbb-hosts.yml

Big Blue Button Install

install.sh

• Download the install.sh script  wget https://ubuntu.bigbluebutton.org/bbb-install.sh 

• Run with the following command line arguments

time eatmydata ./bbb-install.sh -v bionic-230-dev -a -w -g -s meetings.ucc.asn.au -e [email protected] -x

Let's Encrypt

As the host will not have a working webserver initial to do URL based challenges, you need do a DNS TXT challenge manually. Do this via the usual UCC DNS update mechanism

Configuration changes

LDAP

Demo

Data Migration

Testing

Clean Up

=Future Tasks=

• Set up the Let's Encrypt cert before BBB install (needs UCC DNS helper infrastructure first)
• Look at one of the suggested ansible roles for installation from the BBB website and integrate into the UCC Ansible SOE

  • https://github.com/n0emis/ansible-role-bigbluebutton