NetBox on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

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NetBox - the Network Source of Truth, by cloudimg

Deploy a private, self-hosted NetBox on your own Azure infrastructure in minutes - no manual installation, no default credentials, no third-party service. This image delivers NetBox 4.6.5 fully installed, hardened, and reverse-proxied behind nginx, so your team can begin modelling and documenting your network immediately after the VM boots.

Why This Image Instead of Manual Installation

Installing NetBox by hand means provisioning PostgreSQL and Redis, creating a Python virtual environment, installing the application and its dependencies, writing gunicorn and worker systemd units, configuring an nginx reverse proxy, and generating a secret key and administrator. This image eliminates that operational burden:

• Pre-configured PostgreSQL 16, Redis 7, gunicorn and a background worker behind an nginx reverse proxy
• Secure by default: a unique Django secret key, database password, administrator account and REST API token are generated on the first boot of every VM, so no default login ever ships
• Immediate time-to-value: start recording IP space, devices and sites within minutes of the VM starting
• Ongoing expert support: 24/7 cloudimg engineers handle upgrades, TLS termination, LDAP and SSO integration, and API automation

Use Case: A Single Source of Truth for Your Network

Teams document their networks across scattered spreadsheets and diagrams that quickly drift out of date. NetBox replaces them with one queryable, validated model of IP addressing, VLANs, VRFs, devices, racks, sites, cabling, circuits and virtualisation. Network automation and provisioning tooling reads from its REST and GraphQL API, so the same source of truth drives audits, capacity planning and change management.

Application Stack

NetBox is a Django application served by gunicorn on the loopback interface (127.0.0.1:8001), fronted by nginx as a reverse proxy on port 80. PostgreSQL 16 is the primary database and Redis 7 backs the task queue and cache. A background request queue worker handles webhooks and long-running jobs, and a daily housekeeping task keeps the database tidy. nginx serves static assets directly and proxies everything else to the application server, which is never exposed directly.

Secure By Default

No administrator account and no shared secret ship in the image. On the first boot of every VM a one-shot service generates a fresh Django secret key, a fresh database password, a unique administrator account and a REST API token, records them in a protected file readable only by root, and requires authentication for all access. This eliminates the default-credential exposure common in manual installations, and no two deployments ever share a secret.

Features

Model IP prefixes, ranges, addresses, VLANs and VRFs; document devices, device types, racks, sites, locations, cabling and console connections; track circuits, providers and virtualisation; and extend everything with custom fields, tags and change logging. A full REST and GraphQL API, a webhook and event-rule automation engine, and configurable API tokens make NetBox the programmable inventory behind network automation.

Getting Started

1. Launch the image on your chosen Azure VM size 2. Read the per-VM administrator password and API token from /root/netbox-credentials.txt 3. Browse to the VM public IP and sign in as admin to begin modelling your network 4. Call the REST API at /api/ using the token in the Authorization header

Licensing and Pricing

NetBox is licensed under Apache-2.0 and is free; there is no per-seat or per-object fee. The cloudimg charge of 0.04 US dollars per vCPU hour covers packaging, security patching, image maintenance, and 24/7 expert support. NetBox serves plain HTTP on port 80; terminate TLS in front of it with your own domain before production.

cloudimg Support

24/7 technical support by email covers deployment, upgrades, TLS termination, LDAP and SSO integration, API automation and scaling. Critical issues receive a one-hour average response time.

NetBox is a trademark of its respective owner. This image is provided by cloudimg and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the NetBox project. Use of the name does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by them.