DocuSeal

Connect with SSH as azureuser, the default login user. Replace <vm-ip> with the public IP of your VM.

ssh azureuser@<vm-ip>

Check the three services and the Docker version:

sudo systemctl is-active docker.service nginx.service docuseal.service docker --version

The output shows active three times, followed by the Docker Engine version.

List the running containers:

sudo docker ps --format "table {{.Names}}\t{{.Image}}\t{{.Status}}"

The docuseal-app-1 container runs the pinned docuseal/docuseal:3.1.5 image in the Up state.

Send four requests to the local nginx and print the status code of each:

curl -s -o /dev/null -w 'GET /health -> HTTP %{http_code}\n' http://127.0.0.1/health
curl -s -o /dev/null -w 'GET /up -> HTTP %{http_code}\n' http://127.0.0.1/up
curl -s -o /dev/null -w 'GET / -> HTTP %{http_code}\n' http://127.0.0.1/
curl -s -o /dev/null -w 'GET /setup -> HTTP %{http_code}\n' http://127.0.0.1/setup

/health and /up return 200. The root / returns 302, because it redirects an unauthenticated visitor to sign in or to the setup wizard. /setup returns 200 on a fresh instance.

DocuSeal ships with no accounts at all. The first person to open the instance is guided through a one-time setup wizard that creates the first and only administrator. Open a browser to your VM's public address, and complete the wizard immediately after launch so nobody else can claim the admin account:

http://<vm-ip>/

Fill in your name, email, a company name and a strong password. Confirm the App URL, then submit. This account becomes the sole administrator of your DocuSeal instance.

After setup, you land on the Document Templates dashboard. This is where you create reusable signable documents and track what has been sent and signed. Upload a document to get started, or click CREATE to build one from scratch.

Upload a PDF or document, and DocuSeal renders every page in the template editor. Drag signature, initials, date, text, checkbox and other fields from the palette on the right onto the document, and assign each one to a signer.

When the document is ready, use SEND to email it to signers or SIGN YOURSELF to sign it in place.

Open Settings to manage your account and company name, and to add and remove users. Configure SMTP email there so signing invitations are delivered. You can also set your electronic signature options, connect storage and webhooks, and generate API keys for integrations.

Your per-instance details are recorded on the VM. The credentials note records the instance URL and setup instructions. It holds no password, because you set that in the wizard. The image also ships the DocuSeal AGPL-3.0 licence notice. Run these commands to inspect them:

sudo docker image ls docuseal/docuseal
sudo docker exec docuseal-app-1 cat /app/.version
sudo ls -l /root/docuseal-credentials.txt
sudo head -6 /usr/share/doc/sac/third-party-licences/DOCUSEAL-LICENCE-NOTICE.txt