Ralph DCIM

Why the cloudimg image

Ralph's own packaging seeds an administrator called ralph with the password ralph, and its shipped settings leave the Django secret key at a literal placeholder and accept requests for any host name, so a quick deployment is reachable with a credential the whole internet already knows. cloudimg never creates that account at all. The single administrator is generated on the first boot of your instance with a password unique to it, alongside the database passwords, the secret key and the TLS certificate, all written to a file only root can read, and first boot refuses to open the front door if the published default account is present. The web interface, the background worker and the web server are each held shut behind a boot gate, so nothing serves a request until those secrets exist. Only SSH and the two web ports are reachable; the database, the cache and the application server are bound to the loopback interface, and the metrics endpoint the framework exposes without authentication is refused at the web server. The application itself is the official upstream release pinned by immutable digest rather than a moving tag, so every instance runs byte identical code, while the web server, database, cache and container runtime all come from the Ubuntu archive and keep receiving unattended security updates for the life of the image. Every instance ships a self test that signs in through the web server exactly as a browser does and proves a wrong password and an anonymous request are both refused, and the image is paired with a step by step deploy guide tested against this exact build and backed by 24/7 cloudimg support.