Galene
Lightweight open-source WebRTC videoconferencing server (SFU).
Galene is a self-hosted, open source video-conferencing server. It is used, among other places, to teach at the University of Paris. Deployed from the NetActuate marketplace it boots ready to use: a full browser-based conference client is served over HTTPS on port 8443, a server administrator account and a ready-to-use public conference group are seeded at first boot, and a built-in TURN server handles WebRTC NAT traversal so meetings work without any extra infrastructure.
Open your meeting at https://<instance-ip>:8443/group/public/ and share the link. Moderators can create more groups and users with the bundled galenectl utility or the galene-api. Because Galene is a Selective Forwarding Unit (SFU), each participant sends their media once and the server forwards it, keeping client bandwidth low while scaling to sizeable rooms.
Upstream project: Galene (https://github.com/jech/galene), an independent open source project by Juliusz Chroboczek and contributors, released under the MIT licence. Galene is not affiliated with or endorsed by NetActuate; NetActuate packages the unmodified upstream 1.1 release built from source on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
Frequently asked questions
How do I deploy Galene on NetActuate?
Use the Deploy on NetActuate button to talk to our team. We provision Galene on a NetActuate virtual machine in the point of presence you choose, close to your audience. Each deployment runs in the single location you select.
What does it cost to run Galene?
Galene is open-source software and free to run on the marketplace - you pay only for the NetActuate compute (virtual-machine size and location) it runs on, at standard rates. There are no usage-based software fees.
Where can Galene run?
Galene can be deployed in any of NetActuate's 45+ points of presence across every continent, so you can place ingest, transcode, delivery and caching close to your contributors and viewers.
Who supports Galene?
NetActuate operates and supports the underlying infrastructure - the virtual machine, network and edge platform. The application itself is supported by its upstream open-source project.
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