uMap on Ubuntu 24.04

Why the cloudimg image

cloudimg delivers uMap as a complete appliance rather than a framework you have to assemble: it is installed at a pinned upstream release into a dedicated virtual environment, served by gunicorn behind an nginx reverse proxy and backed by PostgreSQL with the PostGIS spatial extension and a Redis cache on the same instance, with an example map already loaded so you can see it working the moment first boot finishes. Anonymous map creation is enabled by default, which is how the public uMap service works, while the administration area is reserved for a single instance administrator. Security is the reason to take this image rather than build it yourself. No shared or default credential ever ships, and nothing is listening on the public port in the image at all, so there is no window in which a fresh instance is reachable with a known password. First boot mints a unique secret key, a unique database password, a unique cache password and a unique administrator password into a root only file, and only then brings the public site up. The database, the cache and the application server all listen only on the machine itself and are reached through nginx. The base is fully patched with unattended security updates enabled, and every deployment is paired with a step by step deploy guide and backed by 24/7 cloudimg support.