DMPRoadmap on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS by cloudimg

DMPRoadmap on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

DMPRoadmap is the open source platform behind DMPonline and DMPTool, used by universities and research organisations worldwide to create, share and manage Data Management Plans. Researchers work through funder and institutional templates to produce structured, guidance driven plans, share them with collaborators and administrators, export them, and keep them current across the life of a project. Administrators manage organisations, templates, guidance and users from the web interface.

This cloudimg image builds the official open source DMPRoadmap (Ruby on Rails 7.1) from source at the pinned stable release, with a bundled PostgreSQL 16 database on the same VM behind nginx on port 80. The upstream reference catalogue of organisations, funder templates, question formats, languages and regions is preloaded, so the platform is ready to plan against from first launch.

Secure by default

Every application secret is generated uniquely on the first boot of each VM and never baked into the image: the Rails signing key, the Devise secret and pepper, the upload signing secret and the PostgreSQL role password. A per instance super administrator account with a random password is created on first boot and written to a root only file. The four upstream demo accounts, all with the password123 default, are removed from the image, so nothing ships with a known credential. The application and database bind to loopback behind a single nginx front door.

Licensing and support

DMPRoadmap is free and open source under the MIT License with no per user fee. The cloudimg charge of 0.04 USD per vCPU hour covers packaging, security patching, image maintenance and 24/7 support with a guaranteed 24 hour response SLA. Recommended size Standard_B2s for a single organisation instance, larger sizes for many concurrent users. A paired step by step deployment guide is provided. Support: support@cloudimg.co.uk.