OBS Studio

Description

OBS Studio is a free, open-source application for video recording and live streaming, widely used for screencasts, broadcasting, and content creation.

Overview

This role installs the OBS Studio desktop application on Pacman-based workstations through the system package manager. It targets the desktop tier and does not configure scenes, capture devices, or streaming profiles.

Architecture

ARCHITECTURE.md draws OBS Studio from its own metadata: the containers it runs under compose, what changes under swarm, how each volume is backed, and every role it depends on or is depended upon by.

Section	Drawn from
Compose	meta/services.yml
Swarm	meta/services.yml replicas and placement
Volumes	meta/volumes.yml against the NFS decision chain
Dependencies	meta/services.yml and meta/main.yml of every role

Features

• Streaming and recording: Provides the upstream OBS Studio binary for both live broadcasting and local recording.

• Pacman integration: Installs the obs-studio package via the standard system package manager.

• Workstation scope: Targets the desktop tier (dsk-*) and stays out of server inventories.

• No state changes beyond install: Does not enable services or write per-user OBS configuration.

Quick Setup

Development

Clone, set up the workstation, and deploy OBS Studio onto the local stack:

git clone https://github.com/infinito-nexus/core.git
cd core
make onboard
make compose-deploy mode=reinstall apps=dsk-obs full_cycle=false

Production

Install OBS Studio directly onto the target machine: clone the repository, install the OS prerequisites and the repository toolchain, then deploy against localhost over a local connection (no SSH, no container):

git clone https://github.com/infinito-nexus/core.git
cd core
bash scripts/install/package.sh
make install
source scripts/meta/env/load.sh

APP=dsk-obs
DOMAIN="<your-domain>"
TLS_MODE=self_signed
SSH_PUBLIC_KEY="<your-ssh-public-key>"
INVENTORY=inventories/production
infinito administration inventory provision "$INVENTORY" \
  --inventory-file "$INVENTORY/devices.yml" \
  --host localhost \
  --include "$APP" \
  --vars "{\"TLS_MODE\": \"$TLS_MODE\", \"DOMAIN_PRIMARY\": \"$DOMAIN\", \"users\": {\"administrator\": {\"authorized_keys\": [\"$SSH_PUBLIC_KEY\"]}}}"
infinito administration deploy dedicated "$INVENTORY/devices.yml" \
  --password-file "$INVENTORY/.password" \
  --diff -vv

Further Resources

• OBS Studio

• OBS Studio knowledge base

Credits

Kevin Veen-Birkenbach

Part of the Infinito.Nexus Project and maintained by Kevin Veen-Birkenbach. Licensed under the Infinito.Nexus Community License (Non-Commercial).

That licence covers this role. The software it deploys is a separate grant: GPL-2.0-only, under which commercial use is allowed. You owe its authors this much: publish the source of changes you distribute. Permission for one of the two is not permission for the other.