Apache Iggy Message Streaming Platform

This is a repackaged open source software product wherein additional charges apply for cloudimg support services.

## A Working Message Streaming Platform in Minutes

Apache Iggy is a persistent, high-throughput message streaming platform written in Rust. It stores messages as append-only segments organised into streams, topics and partitions, and serves them over a fast TCP binary transport and an HTTP REST API, with users, authentication and consumer groups. This AMI ships Apache Iggy 0.8.0 as a self-contained single-node appliance - the Iggy server and its web console are installed, configured and running behind nginx the moment the instance boots, so you can create a stream, produce messages and consume them straight away.

## Who This Is For

• Platform and streaming teams who want a lightweight, self-hosted streaming backbone without operating a heavyweight broker cluster
• Developers building event-driven applications who need a fast persistent log with a simple HTTP and TCP API
• Evaluators who want a working Iggy environment to explore the streams, topics and consumer-group model before committing

## Application Stack

• Apache Iggy 0.8.0 - the streaming server, HTTP REST API on loopback and TCP binary transport on port 8090
• Apache Iggy web console - a browser UI to sign in, browse streams and topics and inspect messages
• nginx - reverse proxy on port 80, forwarding the web console and the HTTP API same-origin with WebSocket upgrades
• The Iggy HTTP API and the web console bind to loopback; nginx is the only web surface, and QUIC is disabled to shrink the attack surface

## Secure By Default

Apache Iggy's root user is created only on first server startup against an empty data directory, and upstream development images use a well-known iggy/iggy credential. This image does not ship that:

• The AMI ships with an empty data volume and no baked Iggy password
• Every instance generates its own administrator password on first boot and initialises the Iggy root user with it
• The plaintext password is written to a root-only credentials file, so no shared or default credential exists in the image
• The well-known iggy/iggy development credential is never set, and the build proves it is rejected before the image is captured

## Production-Grade Storage Layout

Stream data - the append-only segments, topics, partitions and the users store - lives on a dedicated gp3 EBS volume mounted at /var/lib/iggy and bind-mounted into the server, kept off the OS disk and independently resizable. A customer instance reproduces the identical layout on first boot.

## Getting Started

1. Launch the AMI on an m5.large instance or larger

2. SSH into the instance and read the generated administrator password from the root-only credentials file

3. Open your browser to the instance public address on port 80 and sign in as the Iggy root user

4. Create a stream and a topic, then send and consume messages over the HTTP API or connect an Iggy SDK client to the TCP transport on port 8090

For a detailed walkthrough, see the user guide linked in the Additional Resources section.

## Recommended Instance Sizing

• Recommended: m5.large (2 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM)
• Storage: OS disk plus a dedicated gp3 volume for stream data, independently resizable
• Networking: open port 80 for the web console and port 8090 for the Iggy TCP transport in your security group, ideally restricted to your own client address ranges; the raw HTTP API is loopback only

## 24/7 cloudimg Support

Every deployment is backed by cloudimg engineers available around the clock via email and live chat. Support covers initial deployment and instance sizing, TLS termination in front of the web console and API, security-group and network hardening, Iggy configuration and streaming-model guidance, and version upgrades. Critical issues receive a one-hour average response time.

## Evaluation

This AMI uses standard AWS pay-as-you-go infrastructure billing. Launch an instance to evaluate Apache Iggy and terminate at any time with no long-term commitment.

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