Homelab

not in my lab at home, but i manage around 40k ubuntu server installs at work

Yea I run a few as VMs on esxi, one is just a docker service thing and another is for some critical services on the lab.

Literally dozens.

I use it!

Debian > Ubuntu

Debian rules!

Ubuntu server VM on esxi

Yes, especially for containers, as you guessed. (Debian, in my case)

I'm in the process of configuring a NAS that's using Ubuntu Server. I'm even contemplating not using ZFS but MD Raid and dm-integrity with dm-crypt.

I'm running ESXi, but everything that I can run in Linux I do... I happen to really enjoy the simplicity and ease of use as Ubuntu Server offers me. I haven't found that in any other server environment for my uses, purposes, and lack of desire to try new things as I get older.

For me, basically everything works in Ubuntu Server and the new versions are stupid easy to upgrade to or restore setups to. So currently I've got like... 10 Ubuntu server vms going. The other like.. 3 are 2 windows server and 1 OPNSense.

I run ubuntu server on my modest little server. It indeed runs a bunch of docker containers. I just didn't see the need to go full proxmox on it.

I do. Multiple. For scaling practice to 100 ip VPN farm. Scraping. Nas. List goes on.

Use the right tool for the job. If I need a hypervisor, I'll use Proxmox (or Hyper-V at work :( ). If I need a server, I'll use Ubuntu (software allowing). If I have a Linux workstation I'll use Mint usually.

I run Ubuntu server vm’s on esxi. Let me know if you have questions or whatever.

Rocky Linux on bare metal to run mostly docker containers for me.

Proxmox with a bunch of ubuntu servers, plus a cloud init! All of them run docker, terraform, ansible, pi-hole, etc.

Used to use Ubuntu Server on my VMs, but recently switched over to Debian 12 command line installs. No specific reason as to why I did, but it does feel like they start a lot faster now

Ubuntu is the only Linux software I use. Other than unraid

Debian shop here.

I do... well, xubuntu but I rarely ever use the gui. it's only there if I need it and lately it barely works so yay. I primarily access it over ssh anyway and manage everything in docker.

I do have a proxmox box though. didn't care for truenas. the proxmox box just runs nextcloud and syncthing in their own containers.

I've used it plenty in production. Not so much in my home lab.

Running it as a docker host here. I wanted something Debian based because I'm already familiar with the package tools and such for that family. I'm sure there are other distros I could choose that would all be better in some way, but Ubuntu Server was a pretty convenient ready-to-go package for a headless server build.

I run it on my Linode VPSes, because its just the easiest low-friction way to have something that's well maintained, easy to regularly update, and easy to install modern stuff on.

I use Ubuntu server 22.04 LTS headless on bare metal on my Nuc 11 essential I got for 140 bucks. Use it for php/python scripts/cron jobs, puppeteer scripts, MySQL server, exim4 setup as a mail relay so my box can send me email notifications from my scripts and apache as a www server only used by me. I use it cuz Debian the packages are usually older and Ubuntu is the most popular so super easy to google shit I don’t know plus from what I understand Ubuntu server is more user friendly than Debian and easier to install.

I’m sure I could set up proxmox or use Ubuntu in a VM, etc but this works for me and does all the stuff I need and is stable as hell. I have it running 24/7 and never had a single crash or anything. Also I’m not the most advanced Linux user and I know how to do it all easily this way so dunno why I need to complicate it.

Quite a bit. It works well and is the base for several appliance images that I use.

It's quite common.

20 Ubuntu VMs as we speak, however 10 RHEL based VMs and 1 openSUSE VM thrown in the mix.

I use a Ubuntu VM to run some older Docker containers (from when I was first learning). I'd migrate them over but I just don't care enough to migrate them. They're just Minecraft and game proxy servers.

I used to until the Shuttleworth "erm, we have root" gaffe, at which point I realized there is so little separating Ubuntu from pure Debian that it's not even remotely worth putting up with the billionaire vanity project bullshit.

On arm64 as well!

Me

Throwing in a vote of confidence for Rocky Linux, basically CentOS/RedHat with good along term support. I have that supplemental to an Ubuntu Server instance, did it as a test to run services from docker containers and never looked back.

I am running Immich on Ubuntu server VM, works great

Ubuntu is usually my go-to Linux for servers

U know it’s much easier if you’re using TrueNAS system as a file sharing server instead of Ubuntu doing that complex SMB server setup

I use it often when I want linux with a gui. There may be better distributions for specific tasks, but ubuntu is easy to install, upgrade, and use. It surely beats the old days of running make menuconfig and make install.

For headless/containers I use alpine for the minimalist approach and just add what I need through a package manager unless I need something more custom.

I use Ubuntu server and run Docker containers because I found managing stuff as a Linux box via SSH more comfortable. My previous server was FreeNAS for years, it was fine, I'm just more familiar with bash terminal than the terminology soup of FreeNAS + BSD.

Debian VM.

When you don’t need the ui it’s much more efficient. Had a van with desktop, it was using 16gb just to run a background task, server does it with 4.

If lxc containers on proxmox counts, all i run is 22.04 🤟

I’ve got Ubuntu running as a few VMs

Exactly. I'm running proxmox, to run also ubuntu in it. Proxmox is not an "server". It's a "cabinet" with as many "shelves" for separate truenas/ubuntu server/win machine as you want and your resources go.

I do on bare metal and it is rock solid.

I am running Ubuntu server on 5 machines rn

Homelab = Yes as baremetal with some vms
Work = Also yes, 200 physical servers, 2000~ lxc/lxd containers

I run Ubuntu server on my proxmix because I'm too stupid to work with containers

ubuntu user here

I used to use ubuntu and ubuntu server back when I was new. Then I found debian and built out some ansible playbooks and roles to set up debian from scratch (setting up ssh, configuring a different ssh port, installing packages, setting up default users, etc.). My next step is automating installations with packer tbh, but I'm dragging my feet on getting started with packer.

I use ubuntu server for vms in proxmox and ubuntu for my lxc containers

All day everyday - all my servers are non-vm Ubuntu and/or one of the other sharply dressed penguin varietities :D

That's what I'd do. I don't have a home server yet but my game server is an Ubuntu server running the game in Podman (instead of Docker).