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Ubuntu

2,412 reviews

Super-fast, easy to use and free, the Ubuntu operating system powers millions of desktops, netbooks and servers around the world.

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Canonical Kubernetes

28 reviews

Ubuntu is the reference platform for Kubernetes on all major public clouds, including official support in Google’s GKE, Microsoft’s AKS and Amazon’s EKS CAAS offerings. We deliver pure upstream Kubernetes tested across the widest range of clouds — from public clouds to private data centres, from bare metal to virtualised infrastructure.

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Canonical Netplan

19 reviews

Netplan is a utility for easily configuring networking on a linux system. You simply create a YAML description of the required network interfaces and what each should be configured to do. From this description Netplan will generate all the necessary configuration for your chosen renderer tool.

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Canonical MicroK8s

17 reviews

MicroK8s is pure upstream Kubernetes, not a subset. We keep it small with sensible choices that just work. That makes a quick install, with easy upgrades and great security — and leaves your options open later.

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Canonical LXD

16 reviews

Canonical LXD is a next generation system container manager.It offers a user experience similar to virtual machines but using Linux containers instead.It's image based with pre-made images available for a wide number of Linux distributions and is built around a very powerful, yet pretty simple, REST API.

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Canonical OpenStack

14 reviews

Canonical’s OpenStack on Ubuntu gives you the flexibility to place your OpenStack services exactly where you want them, while sharing all the operational code with a large community.

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Launchpad

13 reviews

Launchpad is a software collaboration platform that provides: Bug tracking Code hosting using Bazaar and Git Code reviews Ubuntu package building and hosting Translations Mailing lists Answer tracking and FAQs Specification tracking

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Canonical LXC

13 reviews

Canonical LXC by Linuxcontainers.org is a set of tools, templates, library and language bindings. It's pretty low level, very flexible and covers just about every containment feature supported by the upstream kernel.

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Canonical Juju

7 reviews

Canonical Juju solutions for big data. Build your environment in minutes. Reduce, analyse, index, visualise, repeat

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Malik M.
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Malik M.
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08/20/2026
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Exceptional Stability, Security, and Performance for Admin and Development

What I like best about Ubuntu is its exceptional stability, robust security features, and seamless performance for system administration and development environments. The extensive software repository, active community support, and reliability make it an ideal operating system for infrastructure management, scripting, and enterprise IT operations.
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08/12/2026
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Ubuntu’s Simple, Flexible Setup for a Secure Web and Database Server Split

Using Ubuntu gives me a good balance of simplicity and flexibility. It also helps me keep the web server and the database server separated for security reasons. In my setup, I don’t want to expose the database server to a public IP, so the DB is only accessible from the web server via SSH, and I add firewall rules to round out the security side.
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08/08/2026
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User-Friendly and Secure, Perfect for Hosting

I find Ubuntu user-friendly and simple to use, which is important for managing web servers and database servers. I also value Ubuntu's security features that help in server hosting tasks. The initial setup was very simple for me as a Linux engineer.

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What is Canonical Ltd.?

Canonical is an open source software company and the publisher behind Ubuntu, the world’s most popular enterprise Linux distribution. We provide open source security, support and services to your entire stack. Since the first Ubuntu release in 2004, we’ve worked to expand the Ubuntu philosophy from the cloud to the edge, together with a passionate global community of 200,000 contributors and an ecosystem of hardware partners.

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2004
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ubuntu.com