CGRateS on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Azure Application Infrastructure

CGRateS, the open source carrier grade real time rating, charging and billing engine for telecom, VoIP and usage metered services.

Base
Hardened build
minimal ports, security patches applied at build time
Access
Unique credentials
generated on first boot, readable only by root
Verified
Boots working
services pass a health gate before release
Support
24/7, 365 days
by email and live chat, 24 hour response SLA

Overview

CGRateS is an open source, carrier grade, real time charging system from ITsysCOM. It rates, charges and bills usage metered services, voice calls, VoIP, SMS, data and any custom usage record, with pluggable rating plans, destinations, tariffs, balances, chargers, attributes and CDR handling, all driven through a JSON RPC API and the cgr console CLI.

The datastore is genuinely self contained: the DataDB is a local Redis and the StorDB is CGRateS's own internal store, so there is no external SQL database to install or run. A sample tariff plan is loaded on first boot so the engine demonstrably rates a call and returns account balances the moment the instance is up.

Why the cloudimg image

cloudimg ships CGRateS hardened, fully patched and secure by default. The engine's RPC and JSON RPC API ports stay bound to loopback and are fronted by an nginx TLS reverse proxy, and on first boot every instance generates its own Redis password, its own HTTP Basic Auth password and its own TLS certificate, stored in a root only file. Redis is loopback only, no external SQL database is installed, and no shared or default credential survives into the image. A sample tariff plan is preloaded so rating works out of the box, a paired deploy guide walks through writing your own tariffs, and 24/7 cloudimg support backs it.

Common uses

  • Real time rating and charging for telecom, VoIP and usage metered services
  • Prepaid balance management and postpaid CDR rating over a JSON RPC API
  • A self hosted, self contained billing engine you run on your own infrastructure