Mealie | Support by cloudimg

## Mealie by cloudimg

Mealie is the popular open source, self-hosted recipe manager, meal planner and shopping list for the whole family. It imports recipes from any URL and automatically extracts the ingredients and instructions, organises recipes into cookbooks and categories, plans meals on a calendar and generates consolidated shopping lists. A clean reactive web interface backed by a REST API makes it pleasant on desktop and mobile alike. This Amazon Machine Image delivers Mealie fully installed and configured, so a production ready recipe manager is running within minutes of launch. The release available is Mealie 3.19.

## Application Stack

Mealie is delivered as the official upstream container image, run by a systemd service as an unprivileged account on the loopback address, and fronted by an nginx reverse proxy on port 80 with the upgrade headers and raised upload limit Mealie needs. A systemd unit starts it on boot and restarts it on failure.

## Secure First Boot

Mealie ships with a well known default administrator account out of the box. This image instead generates a fresh administrator password uniquely for every instance on first boot, writes it to a root only file and requires login. No shared or default credentials ship in the image.

## Ready To Use

Sign in on port 80 and start adding recipes. Paste a recipe URL and Mealie imports it automatically, or add a family recipe with the editor, then plan meals on the calendar and build shopping lists. Your recipes, the database, uploaded images and the token signing key live on a dedicated, resizable volume kept separate from the operating system disk. SQLite is the default datastore; teams needing more concurrency can switch to PostgreSQL.

## cloudimg Support

cloudimg provides 24/7 technical support for this image, covering Mealie deployment, importing recipes, meal-plan configuration, backups, switching to PostgreSQL, TLS termination and scaling.