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Meilisearch v1.56.1 on Ubuntu 24.04 with HTTPS, an enforced generated master key and a pinned, baked container image. Add fast, typo-tolerant search to your application after one SSH login.
Overview
This AMI runs Meilisearch, the open-source search engine, on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The container image is pinned to Meilisearch v1.56.1 and baked into the AMI, so first start does not depend on a registry.
Why Meilisearch?
Meilisearch is a search engine with a REST API that you feed with JSON documents and query from your website or application. It provides typo-tolerant full-text search with filtering and sorting, and is configured and operated through its HTTP API.
What Perimattic adds
Pinned, tested version: the image is fixed to v1.56.1, not 'latest', so a rebuild never changes the engine behind your back.
Master key generated for you: during first-login setup a random 24-character master key is generated on your server and Meilisearch starts in production mode with that key enforced; setup checks that requests without the key are refused. There is no default or shared key in the image.
HTTPS: Apache is configured as a reverse proxy and a free Let's Encrypt certificate is requested for your domain with certbot. The Meilisearch port itself is only bound to the server's loopback interface.
Patched base: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS built through an automated EC2 Image Builder pipeline, with security updates applied at build time.
Getting Started Launch the AMI and open ports 22, 80 and 443 in the security group SSH in and answer the setup prompts (domain and admin email) Call the API at https://your-domain with the master key printed at the end of setup, for example: curl -H "Authorization: Bearer " https://your-domain/indexes
A domain name with an A record pointing at the instance is required, because the API is served over HTTPS.
This AMI is built and supported by Perimattic. Meilisearch Community Edition is an open-source project (MIT licence); Perimattic is not affiliated with its authors.
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Highlights
- Meilisearch v1.56.1 pinned and pre-installed: a REST search API with typo-tolerant full-text search, filtering and sorting.
- Secure first login: random 24-character master key generated on your server and enforced from the first start, HTTPS through Apache and Let's Encrypt.
- Built on patched Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and supported by Perimattic: free setup assistance at aws-support@perimattic.com.
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An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Version release notes
Initial release.
- Application: Meilisearch v1.56.1 (container image pinned, baked into the AMI).
- Base: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, fully patched at build time, built by an automated EC2 Image Builder pipeline.
- TLS: Apache reverse proxy with a Let's Encrypt certificate requested by certbot at first login.
- Credentials are generated on the instance at first login; none are present in the image.
- The application's admin account is created during first-login setup, before the site is published.
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Usage instructions
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Launch an Instance
From AWS Marketplace, click Continue to Subscribe and then Continue to Configuration to launch the AMI.
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Choose the Recommended Instance Type
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Configure Security Group
Allow inbound traffic on the following ports:
- 22 (SSH) - terminal access for setup
- 80 (HTTP) - needed to validate your domain for the TLS certificate
- 443 (HTTPS) - access to Meilisearch
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Point a domain at the instance
Create a DNS A record (for example search.example.com) pointing to the instance's public IP before you log in.
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Connect to the Instance
ssh -i <your-key.pem> ubuntu@<public-ip>
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First-Login Setup
The first SSH login runs a guided setup:
- Prompts for your domain and admin email and checks the DNS A record
- Generates a random 24-character master key
- Starts Meilisearch in production mode and verifies that requests without the key are refused
- Configures Apache as an HTTPS reverse proxy and requests a Let's Encrypt certificate
- Prints the URL and master key; they are also stored in /opt/app/access.txt (root only)
If a step fails, fix the problem shown and log in again: the setup resumes where it stopped.
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Access Meilisearch
Open https://<your-domain> and use the credentials printed at the end of setup.
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Credentials
Generated on your server, never shared between customers. View them again with:
sudo cat /opt/app/access.txt
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Manage the Services
cd /opt/app sudo docker compose ps sudo docker compose restart
Keep the master key on the server side and create restricted API keys for browsers and apps through the Meilisearch keys API. Data is kept in /opt/app/data; moving to a newer Meilisearch release can require a dump and re-import, so snapshot the volume first.
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