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Node.js LTS Production Stack

Node.js 24 LTS with PM2 behind an nginx 1.30 reverse proxy, alongside MySQL 8.0, Redis 7, phpMyAdmin and Webmin - everything a Node developer reaches for on a single server. The welcome page is itself an Express app under PM2, proving the whole chain works and doubling as the template you replace with your own app.

Version
v24.20.0
Operating system
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Architecture
x86_64
Support
Community

What's installed

Every package and version on the image. Nothing else is installed.

  • Node.js 24.20.0 LTS
  • PM2 7.0.4
  • nginx 1.30.4
  • MySQL 8.0.46
  • Redis 7.0.15
  • phpMyAdmin 5.2.3
  • Webmin 2.660
  • yarn 1.22.22
  • pnpm 12.3.4
  • certbot 2.9.0

Licensing — Open source (MIT), no licence key required

Deploy anywhere

Node.js LTS Production Stack on AWS.

Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud are next on the roadmap. One clean-room build, one first-boot credential model, one patch cadence — identical on every cloud you run. Every identifier below is the real one; copy it and launch.

  1. AWS

    Amazon Web Services

    AMI · v24.20.0

    Available

    AWS AMI ID

    ami-059b326a0197f1363
    Released
    September 6, 2026
    Root volume
    gp3 · 20 GiB

    Instance types

    • t3a.medium
    • t3.medium
    • t3a.large
    • m6a.large

    Regions

    • us-east-1
    AWS launch steps

Getting started

From launch to signed in, step by step.

  1. Launch in us-east-1 with TCP 22, 80 and 8000 open; wait one to two minutes.

  2. Open http://<instance-public-ip>/ for the welcome app. phpMyAdmin: /phpmyadmin (username root). Webmin: https://<instance-public-ip>:8000 (username admin; per-instance self-signed certificate, accept the one-time warning). The password for both is your EC2 Instance ID (for example i-0123456789abcdef0).

  3. SSH as ubuntu with your key pair. Deploy your app: cd /home/ubuntu/apps && git clone <your-repo> && cd <app> && npm ci --omit=dev && PORT=4000 pm2 start npm --name app -- start && pm2 save.

  4. Point nginx at your port in /etc/nginx/conf.d/provencloud.conf, then sudo nginx -t && sudo systemctl reload nginx, and retire the welcome page with pm2 delete provencloud-welcome && pm2 save.

  5. MySQL: host 127.0.0.1, user root, password the Instance ID (or create a user in phpMyAdmin). Redis: redis://127.0.0.1:6379. Free HTTPS once a domain points here: sudo certbot --nginx -d example.com.

  6. Change passwords with sudo bash /home/ubuntu/iscripts/pass_mysql.sh or pass_webmin.sh; nodejs_status.sh shows versions, PM2 processes and URLs.

Security posture

What this image does and does not ship with, one fact per line.

  • Clean-room build on Canonical's official Ubuntu 24.04 LTS image: every component comes from its own official repository or release, nothing is copied from any third-party image, and the finished image was scanned for third-party vendor strings before capture.

  • No usable credential ships in the image; passwords are set on your instance at first boot from EC2 instance metadata (IMDSv2) and the scripts that set them delete themselves afterwards.

  • SSH is key-only, root login over SSH is refused, and build-time SSH keys, shell history and logs were removed before imaging.

  • No shared secret survives the image: first boot sets the MySQL root and Webmin passwords from the Instance ID, gives the MySQL maintenance account a fresh random password, regenerates the phpMyAdmin cookie key and control-user password, issues a fresh self-signed Webmin certificate naming this instance's public IP, and /etc/machine-id is emptied before imaging so systemd generates a unique one.

  • MySQL automation uses a socket-authenticated maintenance account usable only by root on the box, so no password exists to be stripped.

  • The Node app (3000), MySQL (3306/33060) and Redis (6379) are loopback-only; nginx on 80 is the only public web listener, and it serves a friendly 503 page rather than a bare 502 if the app is down.

  • Repository signing keys were fetched to files and inspected, never piped from curl to bash.

  • The bundled password tools enforce at least 10 characters with upper- and lower-case letters, a number and a symbol, and verify the new credential with a real sign-in before reporting success.