Peering Manager on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Azure Networking

Peering Manager, the open source source of truth for BGP peering, modelling autonomous systems, sessions and Internet exchanges, 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

Peering Manager is the open source management platform for BGP peering: it models your autonomous systems, BGP groups, direct peering sessions, Internet exchanges and routers, keeps them in sync with PeeringDB, and generates router configuration from templated routing policies. Everything is exposed through a full REST API, so network engineers can document, manage and automate their external BGP peering from one authoritative platform rather than tracking it in spreadsheets and hand-edited configs.

It suits network operators, transit providers and content networks who run peering at Internet exchanges and want a single, queryable record of who they peer with, on which fabrics, under which policies, that they fully own and control.

Why the cloudimg image

cloudimg delivers Peering Manager fully installed and configured behind an nginx reverse proxy, with the gunicorn application server, the background request-queue worker, PostgreSQL and Redis already running, so a complete peering management platform 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 is 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 source of truth for BGP peering and Internet exchanges
  • Modelling autonomous systems and generating router configuration from policy
  • Automating external peering through a full REST API

See it running

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

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