rConfig on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS by cloudimg

rConfig v8 Core is a free, open source Network Configuration Management (NCM) tool that connects to your routers, switches and firewalls, backs up their running and startup configurations on a schedule, and keeps a full version history so you can see exactly what changed and when with side by side and inline diffs. Multi-vendor support covers Cisco, Juniper, HP, Dell, Fortinet, Aruba and more, with unlimited devices, categories, tags and reusable command templates, an upgraded multi-term configuration search, and a token-authenticated REST API (v1 and v2) for scripting and integration. This image is built and maintained by cloudimg on a hardened, fully patched Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base, running rConfig v8 Core 8.2.12 as a Laravel 13 / Vue 3 application on nginx, PHP 8.4-FPM, a dedicated MariaDB database and Redis, with the Horizon queue worker running scheduled device backups under Supervisor.

This image installs only the free, open GPL-3.0 Community/Core edition of rConfig — never the paid rConfig Professional tier — and requires no licence key or subscription of any kind. The upstream default administrator credential is never shipped: every secret (the MariaDB password, the Laravel application encryption key and the administrator password) is generated on the first boot of every VM and written to a root-only file, so no two deployments share a credential. The web service does not even start until this rotation has completed, so there is never a network-reachable window with a default or stale credential.

The web UI is served over HTTP on port 80; add your own TLS certificate (for example via Let's Encrypt/certbot) for a browser-trusted HTTPS deployment on port 443. MariaDB and Redis are bound to localhost only, so there is no database port exposed. Sign in at https://your-vm/ with the credentials from /root/rconfig-credentials.txt, add your first network device and credential set under Inventory, and schedule automated backups; each device's configuration history and diffs are then available under Config Tools.

rConfig is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPL-3.0). rConfig is a trademark of its respective owners; this image is provided by cloudimg and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the rConfig project. Backed by 24/7 cloudimg support.