How to Deploy BigBlueButton Web Conferencing on CentOS 8 with Docker

BigBlueButton (BBB) is the leading open-source virtual classroom and web conferencing system. While upstream BBB exclusively provides automated installer scripts for Ubuntu LTS, organizations standardized on Enterprise Linux (CentOS 8 / RHEL 8) can deploy BigBlueButton components cleanly using Docker containers.

Stack: CentOS 8 • Docker CE • BigBlueButton Docker Compose • Nginx TLS Reverse Proxy

1. Installing Docker CE on CentOS 8

dnf config-manager --add-repo https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo
dnf install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io -y
systemctl enable --now docker

2. Deploying BigBlueButton via Docker Compose

git clone https://github.com/bigbluebutton/docker.git bbb-docker
cd bbb-docker
cp .env.example .env

# Configure your FQDN and Let's Encrypt email in .env
./scripts/generate-api-secrets.sh
docker-compose up -d