Shoko Server on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Why the cloudimg image

cloudimg ships Shoko Server as one complete appliance rather than a runtime, a database and a container to wire together, and closes the security gap a fresh install carries: Shoko creates a default account with a blank password on first start. Every cloudimg instance instead ships with no database at all and mints its own administrator password on first boot, before the web front door is reachable, with the blank default proven rejected, so no two machines share a secret and there is no default to guess, and the password is written to a root only file on the machine. Shoko is kept on the loopback interface and fronted by a reverse proxy on the standard web port, its database lives on a dedicated data volume separate from the operating system disk so you can resize, snapshot and back it up independently, and the library ships empty so you connect your own AniDB account and your own media. The base is fully patched with unattended security updates enabled, and every image comes with a step by step deploy guide tested against the exact build and 24/7 cloudimg support.