Bazarr on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Bazarr is a popular open source companion to Sonarr and Radarr that manages subtitles for the TV series and movies in your library. It watches for the subtitle languages you want, works out which are missing or could be upgraded, searches your configured subtitle providers, downloads the best matches, and files them alongside the media automatically. A clean web interface shows your series and movies, a history of what has been fetched, provider and language profile configuration, and a full activity view, while a documented REST API lets you automate any of it. This image delivers Bazarr fully installed and running so a working subtitle manager is operational within minutes of launch.

Secure by default

A stock Bazarr starts with authentication switched off, which means anyone who can reach it gets full control of the application and its API key. This image never ships in that state. Forms authentication is enforced, and a unique administrator password and a unique API key are generated on each virtual machine's first boot. The server stores only a one way digest of the password, never the plain text; the plain credentials are placed in a root only file for the administrator to read. The service will not even start until that secured configuration is in place, so no two deployments ever share a credential.

Hardened and ready on first boot

• Installed from the official release archive, verified against the checksum the project publishes before it is unpacked.
• Runs inside a dedicated Python virtual environment as an unprivileged system user under systemd, in a hardened service sandbox, for automatic restarts and clean logging.
• All application state lives under one directory, so backup and migration are straightforward.
• An unauthenticated health endpoint is provided for load balancer probes, so monitoring needs no credential even though the interface and API do.
• Automatic updates are turned off so the running system never silently drifts from the published image; upgrades arrive as a new cloudimg image version.

Why cloudimg

cloudimg delivers Bazarr fully patched on a hardened Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base, serving on first boot, with no shared credentials and no manual configuration to work through. Every image passes an automated fifteen point verification gate and is backed by 24/7 support with a guaranteed 24 hour response SLA. A step by step deployment guide is provided.

Licensing

Bazarr is open source software distributed under the GNU General Public License version 3, and is free. The cloudimg charge covers packaging, hardening, security patching, image maintenance and 24/7 support.

This is a repackaged open source software product with additional charges for cloudimg support services. Bazarr is a trademark of its respective owner. All product and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Use of them does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by them.