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Ubuntu Server brings economic and technical scalability to your enterprise data center, 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.
Scale effortlessly with the enterprise Linux server built for growth. When demand spikes, Ubuntu Server stays lean and responsive, ensuring your workloads remain performant and cost-effective, no matter how large your cluster grows.
Ubuntu Server is certified by leading hardware OEMs, carries a lean initial deployment, and includes integrated deployment and application modeling tools, so you can get the most from your infrastructure – whether you're deploying NoSQL databases, web farms, or the cloud.
Long term support (LTS) releases of Ubuntu Server receive standard security updates for thousands of open source packages in the Ubuntu Main repository for five years by default. Interim releases every six months bring new features, while hardware enablement updates add support for the latest machines to all supported LTS releases.
Ubuntu is the foundation for private cloud implementation and the most-used Linux distribution in the world (for the third year in a row) according to the OpenLogic 2025 State of Open Source report.
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Multi-cloud orchestration
With the option of a command line or browser-based interface, Juju enables you to design and deploy entire workloads in just a few clicks. It works on public clouds like AWS and Microsoft Azure, private clouds built on OpenStack, and even directly on bare metal, via MAAS.
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Bare metal provisioning
MAAS is a time-saving provisioning system that makes it quick and easy to set up the physical hardware needed to deploy complex services, like Ubuntu's OpenStack cloud infrastructure. Just plug in your servers, connect them to the network, and let MAAS do the rest.
Learn more about MAAS ›
Economics are directly tied to compute density. LXD, the Linux container hypervisor, merges the speed and density of containers with the manageability and security of traditional virtual machines.
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Whether you want to configure a simple file server or build a 50,000-node cloud, you can rely on Ubuntu Server and its five years of guaranteed free upgrades.
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