PhotoPrism

PhotoPrism turns your server into a ready-to-go photo solution with AI functionality. It uses the latest technologies to automatically tag and find images without getting in your way.

You can install PhotoPrism via the Hetzner Cloud Console or the Hetzner Cloud API.

Getting Started

Create your server as usual using the Hetzner Cloud Console. As an alternative to the operating system, you can choose an app that you would like to have pre-installed.

The collection is preinstalled on the server in the form of Docker images, but it is not activated.

To activate the collection, please login to your server:

By SSH key, if you provided one when you created your server.
By root password, which you received from us by email when you created your server, if no SSH key was provided.

This will take you through a process whereby you can then use any services from the web, with automatic Let's Encrypt support.

After successful setup, the generated account details will be printed to your console. For reference, the admin user name by default is photos_admin.

Hetzner Cloud API

Instead of the Hetzner Cloud Console, the Hetzner Cloud API can also be used to set up a server with PhotoPrism.

For example via curl command from the command line

curl \
   -X POST \
   -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_TOKEN" \
   -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
   -d '{"name":"my-photoprism-server", "server_type":"cpx21", "image":"photoprism"}' \
   'https://api.hetzner.cloud/v1/servers'

Or via hcloud-cli

hcloud server create --name my-photoprism-server --type cpx21 --image photoprism

Image content

Operating system

Ubuntu 24.04

Installed packages

This image contains Docker and all other listed applications as Docker containers.

NAME	LICENSE
Docker	GPLv3 (Apache 2.0)
PhotoPrism	AGPLv3
MariaDB	GPLv2
Traefik	MIT
Watchtower	GPLv3 (Apache 2.0)

Passwords

We use automatically generated passwords that are stored in the following folder:

/root/.hcloud_password

The PhotoPrism admin user name is photos_admin by default.

Links

For more information about the installed packages, see the official documentation:

For more information about Hetzner Cloud and Hetzner Cloud Apps, please see our official documentation: