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I spent some time trying to configure my self-hosted Jitsi Meet based on the documentation that says to make a custom-interface_config.js and custom-config.js for the volume that gets mounted as /config in the container. If you follow the instructions, that would be path ~/.jitsi-meet-cfg/web.

Unfortunately, the container does not actually process these files, so I had to develop my own way to inject my settings and branding into the application.

Part of the instructions for deploying involve getting the release tarball and extracting it (as opposed to cloning the git repo). Inside this tarball is the docker-compose.yml and the web/ directory for that Dockerfile. I had to modify this web/Dockerfile, by adding a new layer:

RUN ln -sf /custom/watermark.svg /usr/share/jitsi-meet/images/watermark.svg && \
ln -sf /custom/interface_config.js /defaults/interface_config.js && \
ln -sf /custom/config.js /defaults/config.js

I put this at the bottom, below the RUN declaration. Then, I built this new image and recorded the name of the image, e.g., 3129533498de.

~/jitsi-7439-2/web$ docker build .

And then update the docker-compose.yml to use this image for target web: and add the volume.

services:
    # Frontend
    web:    
        #image: jitsi/web:${JITSI_IMAGE_VERSION:-stable-7439-2}
        image: 3129533498de
        restart: ${RESTART_POLICY:-unless-stopped}
        ports:
            - '${HTTP_PORT}:80'
            - '${HTTPS_PORT}:443'
        volumes:
            - ${CONFIG}/web:/config:Z
            - ${CONFIG}/web/crontabs:/var/spool/cron/crontabs:Z
            - ${CONFIG}/transcripts:/usr/share/jitsi-meet/transcripts:Z
            - /home/jitsi/.jitsi-meet-cfg/custom:/custom:Z

And then of course make my ~/.jitsi-meet-cfg/custom directory.

~/.jitsi-meet-cfg/custom$ ls
config.js  interface_config.js  watermark.svg

I copied these javascript files from web/rootfs/defaults/ and modified them to suit my needs, and also I generated my own watermark.svg.

Upon preparing these files, I was able to then bring docker-compose up.

docker-compose up -d

And now my Jitsi Meet has my settings! That was way harder than it should have been, but the application was not acting as documented.