Apache Guacamole | Support by cloudimg

## Apache Guacamole by cloudimg

Apache Guacamole is the popular free open source clientless remote desktop gateway. It lets you access Windows machines over RDP, Linux and network devices over SSH or Telnet, and any desktop over VNC, entirely from a web browser with no client software or browser plugins to install. This Amazon Machine Image delivers Guacamole fully installed and configured, so a complete browser based remote access portal is running within minutes of launch. The release available is Apache Guacamole 1.6.0.

## Application Stack

Guacamole has two halves, both preconfigured here. The guacd native proxy daemon, which speaks RDP, VNC, SSH and Telnet, is built from the official source release. The Guacamole web application runs in Apache Tomcat, with database authentication backed by MariaDB through the official JDBC extension. An nginx reverse proxy serves the portal on the standard web port with the WebSocket support the remote desktop tunnel requires. The Guacamole configuration tree and the database each live on their own dedicated, independently resizable data volume.

## Secure First Boot

On the first boot of every instance a one shot service generates a fresh administrator password and a fresh MariaDB password, unique to that instance, and writes the administrator user name and password to a root only file. No shared or default credentials ship in the image.

## Ready To Use

The Guacamole web application, the guacd proxy, the nginx web server and the MariaDB database are all configured and start on boot. Browse to the instance address, sign in as the administrator, add your first RDP, SSH, VNC or Telnet connection, and connect.

## cloudimg Support

cloudimg provides 24/7 technical support for this image, covering Guacamole deployment, upgrades, RDP, SSH, VNC and Telnet connection configuration, LDAP and SAML single sign on, two factor authentication, session recording, performance tuning and database administration.