EGroupware Collaboration Suite | cloudimg Support

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EGroupware is a mature open source collaboration and groupware suite used by businesses, public sector bodies, schools and non profit organisations worldwide. This image delivers EGroupware 26 fully installed, configured and security hardened on a single EC2 instance, so you have a working collaboration platform the moment the instance finishes booting, not a source tree and an afternoon of manual configuration.

Why choose this image over manual deployment

Installing EGroupware from source or using the upstream container topology means configuring Apache, PHP and MariaDB, running the web installer, hardening the setup console, generating credentials and setting up storage. This image eliminates that entire sequence:

• Pre completed installer: the EGroupware setup wizard has already run and the setup console is locked away from the public internet.
• Unique credentials on every boot: fresh database, setup and administrator passwords are generated on first launch and written to a root owned file, so no two deployments share a password and nothing is published in this listing.
• Dedicated EBS data volume: your collaboration data lives on its own volume that you can snapshot, resize or detach independently of the operating system volume.
• Host agnostic configuration: EGroupware derives every link from the request host, so it works on your public IP, your private IP, a DNS name, or behind a TLS terminating proxy with nothing host specific baked in.
• Patched and hardened: the image is updated to the latest security baseline at build time.

A complete groupware feature set on one instance

The appliance bundles Apache with PHP, a local MariaDB database and the full EGroupware application suite:

• Shared calendars with group scheduling and resource booking
• Address books with fine grained access control
• InfoLog task and ticket tracking
• Versioned file manager with a virtual file system
• Project manager and time sheets
• Wiki, bookmarks and news administration
• CalDAV and CardDAV synchronisation with phones, tablets and desktop clients

Example use case

A school coordinating room bookings, meeting schedules and shared document repositories can deploy this image and immediately give staff group calendars, resource booking for rooms and equipment, and a versioned file manager for policies and forms, all hosted within their own AWS account with no data leaving their control. A small consulting firm replacing a hosted groupware tool gains full data sovereignty, LDAP or Active Directory integration, and no per seat licence fees under the GPL.

Integration and extensibility

• Connect your existing mail server for integrated email
• Authenticate against LDAP or Active Directory
• Synchronise calendars and contacts to any CalDAV or CardDAV client, including iOS, Android, Thunderbird and Outlook
• Run standalone or as part of a larger infrastructure

Licensing

EGroupware is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later, so there are no licence fees or seat counts to manage and your data stays entirely in your own AWS account.

Getting started

Launch the image, wait for first boot setup to complete, browse to your instance address, sign in with the generated administrator credentials, and start collaborating. For pre sales questions, contact cloudimg support by email or live chat.