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Kubernetes is too much. You could set up a matrix server for chat with jitsi for video meetings. Use element as client. Then add your game server(s).

For matrix/jitsi server setup use this playbook github.com/…/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy

It installs all you need for video, audio, and text chat.

Maybe change the config to be unfederated if you want a private server.

100% uptime is really not feasible so forget that. Even the commercial servers have downtimes.

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pory@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
If I run this stuff, what do my clients / less techy friends need to install to get a Discord-like experience for screenshare/IM?

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- passenger@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  A browser. Element web client and jitsi client are included as browser clients. They could install element if they want a client software that automatically starts etc.
  
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  - pory@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    This would allow them to share their screen + system audio excluding Element’s own sound while playing a game, like Discord does? No extra hoops like installing OBS to function as a webcam? If it really is that easy, I’ll absolutely install this stack as soon as I can. But every time I’ve tried discord “alternatives”, there’s always either a whole series of steps you have to jump through to screenshare (and forget about screen sharing a single app instead of an entire monitor, and forget about sharing sound without causing the streamer to echo the viewer’s voice), or the screensharing has multi-second lag (no matter how good the client and server’s connection is - testing this was done on purely local setups on Ethernet).
    
    You’d think a direct peer to peer connection or “server” connection that’s… Functionally a peer would have less lag than the one that needs to phone home over the internet and perform downscaling on the feed to upsell Nitro, but that hasn’t been my experience.
    
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    passenger@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Try it out. You can try element and jitsi its free. Just test some matrix server.
    
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mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

100% uptime is really not feasible so forget that. Even the commercial servers have downtimes.

What I was thinking of doing was having 2-3 separate boxes distributed between houses and could automatically switch which boxes handles resources when 1 goes down. No individual box would have 100% uptime, but you’d have minimal disruptions when any particular box has issues or needs maintenance.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like kubernetes works that way, and I don’t know of any software that would. Best bet now is probably to distribute backups between the boxes and manually spin up a secondary box when the primary goes down

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