Gorse Recommender Engine on Ubuntu 24.04 | 24/7 Support by cloudimg

Gorse is an open source recommender system engine written in Go. You feed it users, items and feedback through a clean REST API and it returns personalized recommendations, with popular and latest non-personalized fallbacks, all served from a single self-contained process. This image delivers Gorse fully installed as the all-in-one gorse-in-one engine, backed by an embedded SQLite data and cache store and reverse proxied behind nginx, so a working recommendation service is operational within minutes of launch, with no cluster to assemble, no external database or cache to provision and no proxy configuration required.

Unlike a bare deployment, this image is secure by default. Gorse ships with an empty API key and empty dashboard credentials, which leaves both the REST API and the admin dashboard wide open. This image never boots in that state: a unique API key, dashboard password and admin key are generated on each virtual machine's first boot and written to a root only file, and the engine is started only after those secrets are in place, so every API request requires your key and the dashboard requires your login from the very first request. The engine binds only to loopback and is exposed through an nginx reverse proxy that is ready for your TLS certificate, and systemd manages the service for automatic restarts and clean logging. On first boot the appliance also refreshes itself to the newest Gorse release, so every launch runs current software. 24/7 cloudimg support is included.

Gorse serves collaborative filtering and content aware recommendations, item to item and user to user neighbors, session based recommendations, latest and popular non-personalized lists, categories and labels, and a web dashboard for inspecting data, recommendations and background training tasks. It is a CPU only engine with no GPU requirement, and integrates with any application through its REST API and official client libraries.

This is a repackaged open source software product with additional charges for cloudimg support services. Gorse is licensed under the Apache License 2.0 and 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.