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Hardened build
minimal ports, security patches applied at build time
Gibbon School MIS on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Azure
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the open source school management platform, running on your own VM with a unique administrator password minted at first boot.
Overview
Gibbon is a free and open source school management platform, built for teachers, students, parents and school leaders. It brings the administrative side of a school into one web application: student records and enrolment, the timetable and course catalogue, attendance by day and by period, the teacher markbook and reports, behaviour and pastoral care, a school calendar and student alerts, planners and homework, admissions, library, finance and billing, staff records, and a portal where parents and students follow their own timetables, grades and attendance.
It is the administrative half of school software, sitting alongside a learning management system rather than replacing it: where an LMS carries the teaching, Gibbon carries the register, the timetable and the record of who is enrolled in what.
Why the cloudimg image
Gibbon's setup wizard creates the first administrator and is unauthenticated until it has been completed, so an image that shipped it reachable would let a stranger claim the school. This image installs the database during the build instead, blocks the wizard outright, and proves it stays blocked even with the database stopped. No default or shared credential exists at any point: the administrator password, the database password, the maintenance credential and the HTTPS certificate are all generated on each VM's first boot and written to a root only file. Password reset links are pinned to the VM's own address rather than to a hostname a browser supplied, no demo or sample school data is installed, and only SSH and HTTPS are reachable from outside. Paired with a step by step deploy guide and 24/7 cloudimg support.
Common uses
- Run a school's student records, timetable and attendance on infrastructure you control
- Give parents and students a portal for grades, attendance and schedules
- Evaluate an open source school MIS before committing to a hosted provider
See it running
Real screenshots taken while testing this image against its deployment guide.
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