Ubuntu Linux Server
The best linux server flavor we usually use is Ubuntu
According to their website:
Ubuntu Server brings economic and technical scalability to your data centre, public or private cloud. Whether you want to deploy an OpenStack cloud, a Kubernetes cluster or a 50,000-node render farm, Ubuntu Server delivers the best value scale-out performance available.
Ubuntu Server is a version of the Ubuntu operating system designed and engineered as a backbone for the internet.
Ubuntu Server brings economic and technical scalability to your datacenter, public or private. Whether you want to deploy an OpenStack cloud, a Kubernetes cluster or a 50,000-node render farm, Ubuntu Server delivers the best value scale-out performance available.
Our explanatory and conceptual guides are written to provide a better understanding of how Ubuntu Server works and how it can be used and configured. They enable you to expand your knowledge, making the operating system easier to use.
If you’re not sure how or where to get started with a topic, each section has “introduction to” pages to give you a high-level overview and relevant links to help you navigate to the guides and other materials of most interest to you.
Security
Our security explanations include high-level overviews of security configuration and good practices, and discussion of key concepts in the following topics:
Authentication, with introductions to Kerberos and SSSD
Cryptography and cryptographic libraries
Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) with introductions to WireGuard VPN and its related concepts
Networking
Our networking section will give you an introduction to networking and details on some of the key topics, such as:
Network tooling and configuration
Network shares
Managing software
Managing software is an integral part of system maintenance. In this section we discuss the following topics in detail:
Software updates, why updates are sometimes phased, and testing updates before they’re released in your production environment
Third party repositories
Changing package files
Storage
In data and storage we discuss:
Managing data
Storage and backups
Web services
Our Web services section includes details about web servers and how they work, as well as related topics like Squid proxy servers.
Virtualisation and containers
Our Virtualisation and containers section includes overviews of the available virtualisation and container tooling in the Ubuntu space, as well as more detail about topics like rock images, Docker, eBPF and more!
Clouds
Our clouds section provides details on finding cloud images for various public clouds, and about the popular cloud initialization tool, cloud-init.
System tuning
Our system tuning section provides details on system performance and optimization, covering concepts like Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO) and some common tooling.
High Availability
High Availability is a method for clustering resources to ensure minimal downtime if a particular component fails.
In this section we provide an introduction to High Availability and explain some of the key concepts.
Debugging
These debugging pages are for readers interested in packaging and Ubuntu development.