Netflix Eureka Server on Ubuntu 24.04 by cloudimg

Netflix Eureka is an open source service registry for microservices. Each service instance registers itself with Eureka when it starts, sends a regular heartbeat while it stays healthy, and is removed when it goes away, so the registry always holds a current picture of what is running and where. Other services then resolve an instance by its logical name instead of a hard coded address, which is what makes client side load balancing, failover and elastic scaling practical in a distributed system.

Netflix ships Eureka only as a library, so this cloudimg image provides the standard standalone Eureka server: a minimal Spring Boot application built around the Spring Cloud Netflix Eureka server, compiled into a self contained executable at build time so nothing is fetched at runtime. It is purpose built for Microsoft Azure, hardened, security patched, and validated before publication, and backed by 24/7 expert support.

Eureka serves its dashboard and its registration API with no authentication at all by default. This image closes that gap: the server binds to loopback and is reached only through an nginx reverse proxy, and both the dashboard and the registration endpoints sit behind an HTTP Basic authentication wall. There is no shipped default login: a per VM administrator password is generated on the first boot of every instance and stored in a root only file, and the server is held back from serving until that credential exists. Only ports 22 and 80 need to be opened. The base is Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with the latest security patches and unattended security upgrades enabled.

Eureka is an open source project originally created by Netflix, Inc.; Netflix is a trademark of Netflix, Inc. This image is a repackaged upstream distribution provided by cloudimg; additional charges apply for build, maintenance, and 24/7 support at support@cloudimg.co.uk.