Damselfly on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

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Damselfly, a self hosted server based photo management and deduplication app, secured with per instance login.

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

Damselfly is an open source, server based photograph management application. It indexes an extremely large collection of images and makes them easy to search and retrieve using IPTC keyword tags, folder names and file names, and serves a fast browser interface for browsing, tagging and downloading, with optional on device object and face recognition.

Why the cloudimg image

cloudimg delivers Damselfly hardened and fully patched, served over TLS with a self signed certificate regenerated on first boot. Authentication is on by default, self registration is disabled, and a unique admin credential is generated per instance with only the one way hash stored, so the usual no login default and first to register admin are never shipped. A dedicated data disk holds your photos, thumbnail cache and index, and the container binds to loopback behind an nginx reverse proxy. Object and face recognition ship off by default so nothing runs until you enable it. Backed by 24/7 support.

Common uses

  • Index and search a very large photo library by keyword, folder and file name
  • Host a private, browsable photo collection over TLS without a third party cloud
  • Optionally find images by their content with on device object and face recognition

See it running

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

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