Welcome to the Vivid Vervet edition of the Ubuntu Cloud Server, a completely free and open source server-oriented operating system based on the latest Linux kernel technologies and built on top of the Ubuntu Linux operating system. It can be used by anyone who is looking for an easy-to-use solution to deploy Ubuntu in the cloud, and build their own personal cloud server.
Supported on 64-bit, 32-bit, ARM64 and ARM Hard Float
The Cloud Server edition of Ubuntu is an official flavor dedicated to skilled system administrators who want to deploy Ubuntu in the cloud, as well to built powerful cloud servers based on the world’s most popular operating system, Ubuntu Linux.
The project is distributed as pre-built binaries, supporting the 64-bit (amd64), 32-bit (i386), ARM Hard Float (ARMHF) and ARM64 (ARM 64-bit Power Little Endian) CPU architectures. It is also available for download as QCOW2 disk images to deploy the OS on top of an existing KVM or QEMU virtualization software.
Additionally, Ubuntu Cloud Server is distributed as pre-built cloud images designed for the Amazon EC2 cloud hosting provider, so you will be able to deploy Ubuntu in the cloud with a single mouse click. OVF (Open Virtualization Format) images are also available for those of you who want to virtualize the cloud server.
Includes a wide variety of server-oriented tools
Being an official flavor or Ubuntu, the Cloud Server edition uses the latest Linux technologies that were implemented in Ubuntu and includes a wide variety of server-oriented tools that allow professionals to easily and quickly build their very own cloud server systems based on Ubuntu.
Among these server-oriented technologies, we can mention OpenStack to build an open-source cloud server in no time, MAAS (Metal as a Service) to orchestrate services, Juju to administer hardware components, and Landscape to manage your cloud server and keep it updated at all times.
