HedgeDoc

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

Overview

HedgeDoc is the leading open source, self-hosted, real-time collaborative markdown editor - the community fork of HackMD. Multiple people edit the same note simultaneously in a split-pane editor with live rendered preview, presence cursors and chat-free collaboration that just works in the browser. Notes support diagrams, code blocks with syntax highlighting, MathJax math, slide-deck presentation mode and image uploads. This image delivers HedgeDoc fully installed and configured as a system service, so your private, self-hosted knowledge and note collaboration platform is running within minutes of launch. The current release available is HedgeDoc 1.10.8.

Application Stack

HedgeDoc runs on Node.js 20 LTS, installed from the official release tarball with the pre-built frontend, and is operated by an unprivileged service account under systemd. It listens on the loopback address only; an nginx reverse proxy fronts the application on port 80 with WebSocket upgrade support, which real-time collaboration requires. The SQLite database and image uploads live on a dedicated, independently resizable storage volume kept separate from the operating system disk.

Secure By Default

Anonymous note creation and open self-registration are disabled. On its first boot the instance generates a unique session secret and a unique admin account with a random password, applied through HedgeDoc's own user management tooling and written to a root-only file. No shared or default credentials ship in the image, and all build-time state is wiped before capture.

Ready To Use

Browse to the instance on port 80, sign in with the generated admin credentials, and start writing. Create additional users with the bundled user management CLI, or connect LDAP, SAML or OAuth2 identity providers through configuration. Import existing markdown, publish read-only note views, and present any note as a slide deck.

cloudimg Support

24/7 technical support by email and chat. Help with HedgeDoc deployment, user management, authentication providers, TLS termination, backups, upgrades and scaling.

Use Cases

Team documentation and meeting notes with live co-editing. Engineering runbooks and incident scratchpads. University and classroom collaborative note-taking. A private, in-your-own-VPC alternative to SaaS collaborative editors for organisations with data residency or privacy requirements.

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