How to deploy a WebRTC (easyrtc) server

This tutorial has the aim of guide you through the steps for deploying a WebRTC server and try it with the multiuser feature of BabiaXR.

Specifically, this guide is for deploying an EasyRTC server.

• GitHub Repo: https://github.com/open-easyrtc/open-easyrtc

Deploying using JavaScript (local)

The steps for deploying an Open EasyRTC server using JavaScript (required node 13.8.0) are the next ones:

git clone https://gitlab.com/babiaxr/open-easyrtc
cd open-easyrtc
npm install --production
cd server_example

• Non-secured server

  node server.js
  

• SSL autosigned localhost server

  node server_ssl.js
  

• SSL with custom certs

  1. Go to server_ssl_customcerts.js file and modify the following lines:

  // Start Express https server on port 8443
  var webServer = https.createServer({
      key:  fs.readFileSync(__dirname + "your_path_to_key"),
      cert: fs.readFileSync(__dirname + "your_path_to_cert")
  }, httpApp);
  

  2. Then deploy the server

  node server_ssl_customcerts.js
  

Deploying using Docker

First of all you have to have installed Docker and docker-compose (optional)

Dockerfiles

The docker images are allocated in a repository:

• Dockerfile for the nonssl version: https://gitlab.com/babiaxr/open-easyrtc/-/blob/master/server_example/Dockerfile
• Dockerfile for the ssl version autosigned localhost: https://gitlab.com/babiaxr/open-easyrtc/-/blob/master/server_example/Dockerfile_ssl_autosigned
• Dockerfile for the ssl version with custom certs: https://gitlab.com/babiaxr/open-easyrtc/-/blob/master/server_example/Dockerfile_ssl_customcerts

Docker-hub tags:

• non-ssl version: babiaxr/easyrtc:nonssl
• ssl autosgined version: babiaxr/easyrtc:sslautosigned
• ssl custom certs: babiaxr/easyrtc:sslcustomcerts

Deploy with docker

• non-ssl version: docker run -it -d -p 8080:8080 babiaxr/easyrtc:nonssl
• ssl autosgined version: docker run -it -d -p 8443:8443 babiaxr/easyrtc:sslautosigned
• ssl custom certs: docker run -it -d -p 8443:8443 babiaxr/easyrtc:sslcustomcerts

Deploy with docker-compose

Note: volumes and exported ports are optional

• non-ssl version:

  version: "2.1"
  services:
    babiartc-server:
      image: babiaxr/easyrtc:nonssl
      container_name: babiartc
      ports:
        - 8080:8080
      restart: unless-stopped
  volumes:
    certsbabia:
      external: true

• ssl autosgined version:

  version: "2.1"
  services:
    sslbabiartc-server:
      image: babiaxr/easyrtc:sslautosigned
      container_name: sslbabiartc
      ports:
        - 8443:8443
      restart: unless-stopped
  volumes:
    certsbabia:
      external: true

• ssl custom certs version:

    version: "2.1"
    services:
      sslbabiartc-server:
        image: babiaxr/easyrtc:sslcustomcerts
        container_name: sslbabiartc
        ports:
          - 49153:8443
        volumes:
          - certsbabia:/app/open-easyrtc/server_example/customcerts
        restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      certsbabia:
        external: true