NetBox on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Azure Networking

NetBox, the open source network source of truth combining IP address management and data centre infrastructure management, ready the moment it boots.

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

NetBox is the leading open source network source of truth: a combined IP address management (IPAM) and data centre infrastructure management (DCIM) platform for modelling and documenting a network. It holds the authoritative record of IP space, VLANs and VRFs, devices, racks, sites, cabling, circuits and virtualisation, and exposes all of it through a full REST and GraphQL API, change logging, custom fields and a webhook automation engine. Because it is the canonical inventory that network automation tooling reads from, teams use it to drive provisioning, audits and capacity planning from a single reliable source.

It suits network engineers, platform teams and service providers who want to replace scattered spreadsheets and diagrams with one documented, queryable model of their infrastructure that they fully own and control.

Why the cloudimg image

cloudimg delivers NetBox fully installed and configured behind an nginx reverse proxy, with the gunicorn application server, the background task worker, PostgreSQL and Redis already running, so a complete network source of truth answers the moment the instance boots. The image is secure by default: no administrator and no shared secret ship in it, and on the first boot of every instance a fresh Django secret key and API token pepper are generated, the database is initialised empty, and a unique administrator plus a REST API token are created and written to a file only the root user can read, so no two deployments ever share a login. The image is hardened, fully patched and pinned to a known release, and every deployment is paired with a step by step deploy guide and backed by 24/7 support.

Common uses

  • A private self hosted network source of truth for IPAM and DCIM
  • The authoritative inventory that drives network automation
  • Replacing spreadsheets with one queryable model of your infrastructure

See it running

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

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