Unchained Engine on Ubuntu 24.04

Why the cloudimg image

Unchained is a framework, so a working deployment normally means writing a host application, wiring up a datastore, choosing plugins and building the admin console before you can see a single screen. cloudimg ships all of that finished and proven: the engine, its datastore and the admin console are installed, configured and running together, and the appliance is validated end to end before release by creating a product through the API, reading it back and confirming it was persisted, not merely by checking that a page loads. Security is the default rather than an exercise for the reader. Upstream's example applications ship a published administrator password and published signing secrets; none of them exist here. Every instance mints its own administrator, its own session and signing secrets and its own database passwords on first boot, written to a file only root can read, and the image itself contains no account at all, so there is nothing to guess before that first boot completes. The datastore and the engine both listen on the loopback interface only, so a single hardened front door is the only thing exposed, and the session cookie policy is set for real browser sign in rather than the sandbox defaults that silently make login impossible. The base is fully patched with unattended security upgrades enabled, and every deployment is paired with a step by step deploy guide tested against the exact image you launch and backed by 24/7 cloudimg support.