Administration
Features Administration
Easy administration
Ubuntu Server is designed to make systems administration easy and efficient. At the heart of Ubuntu Server is Debian, the Linux distribution famous for being written by systems administrators for systems administrators. So many of the routine tasks that consume a great deal of a systems administrators' time are simplified and automated.
Save time with automated deployment
Automated deployment is a key feature of an Ubuntu infrastructure. Building out farms of servers to do the same or similar tasks is a common requirement when adding capacity to a system but configuring each machine can take many hours. With Ubuntu Server you can configure the installer to build reproducible, hardware-independent deployment scenarios that include the applications you need. These can be deployed to machines in minutes. Ubuntu Server supports a host of deployment scenarios.
Applications packaged for ease
Ubuntu users save time with Debian's packaging scheme. With every release, Ubuntu automates the deployment of more services as standard, from the expected LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python) stack to Java containers and cloud computing. Additional application packages can be sourced from the open-source 'universe' repository, the expanding Ubuntu ecosystem, the ever-growing list of personal package archives on Launchpad (PPA), or a company can package their own applications and deploy with equal ease.
Effortless management with Landscape
For managing, monitoring and maintaining your IT environment, Canonical's Landscape makes the administration of multiple machines as easy as managing one. Users can manage both physical and virtual machines on your network from a single web-based interface – either as a subscription service or deployed behind a firewall.
