Alfresco Community Edition on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Overview

Alfresco Community Edition is an open source enterprise content management platform. It gives an organisation a single governed home for its documents: files are stored in a content repository with full version history, folder structure, metadata, and permissions that can be set per site, per folder or per document. Users work through the Share web interface, where content is organised into collaboration sites with document libraries, and every change is tracked so an earlier revision can always be recovered.

The platform indexes both metadata and the full text of documents, so content can be found by what it says rather than only by what it is called. Alongside the web interface it exposes a comprehensive ReST API and the CMIS standard, which makes it a content store other applications can build on rather than a closed silo. Folder rules and workflow can move, classify or route documents automatically as they arrive.

This image ships the Community Edition. It is the freely available edition of the platform: the repository, the Share interface and full text search. It does not include the clustering, records management or vendor support that the commercial edition adds.

Common uses

• Give a team one governed document repository with version history and permissions
• Make an existing document estate searchable by its full text, not just by filename
• Provide a standards based content store that other applications integrate with over ReST or CMIS

See it running

Real screenshots taken while testing this image against its deployment guide.