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Assume I have a physical server with vanilla Ubuntu 18.04 LTS where I'll do some minimal configuration adjustments in iptables and /etc/ssh/sshd_config and only install docker.

Using docker I'll be running whatever workloads I need to run and I'll be keeping the host up to date regularly via these commands:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

sudo reboot now

sudo apt-get autoremove

Should I prefer something other than Ubuntu (e.g Debian, Arch, CentOS) because it'll offer me better performance or better security? Or will sticking to Ubuntu offer me exactly the same performance and security as anything else for my usage scenario?

Edit: I do not care about how large the host O/S is on the server. I'm only looking into facts and figures which confirm whether performance and security are affected.

ubuntu security performance

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  Pretty broad question, but yes, Ubuntu is filled with lots of things unecessary to your use case, such as snapd etc. If you want a minimal system I suggest choosing Debian (on which Ubuntu is based on) or similar.
  
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  @Panki Thanks. I believe it's not broad at all since I've described a very specific use case. I've also updated my question with a note that I don't care how large or "bloated" the distro is.
  
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Assume I have a physical server with vanilla Ubuntu 18.04 LTS where I'll do some minimal configuration adjustments in iptables and /etc/ssh/sshd_config and only install docker.

Using docker I'll be running whatever workloads I need to run and I'll be keeping the host up to date regularly via these commands:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

sudo reboot now

sudo apt-get autoremove

Should I prefer something other than Ubuntu (e.g Debian, Arch, CentOS) because it'll offer me better performance or better security? Or will sticking to Ubuntu offer me exactly the same performance and security as anything else for my usage scenario?

Edit: I do not care about how large the host O/S is on the server. I'm only looking into facts and figures which confirm whether performance and security are affected.

ubuntu security performance

share

edited 1 min ago

cherouvim

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cherouvimcherouvim

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  Pretty broad question, but yes, Ubuntu is filled with lots of things unecessary to your use case, such as snapd etc. If you want a minimal system I suggest choosing Debian (on which Ubuntu is based on) or similar.
  
  – Panki
  3 mins ago
  

  
  
  
  


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  @Panki Thanks. I believe it's not broad at all since I've described a very specific use case. I've also updated my question with a note that I don't care how large or "bloated" the distro is.
  
  – cherouvim
  20 secs ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment
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Assume I have a physical server with vanilla Ubuntu 18.04 LTS where I'll do some minimal configuration adjustments in iptables and /etc/ssh/sshd_config and only install docker.

Using docker I'll be running whatever workloads I need to run and I'll be keeping the host up to date regularly via these commands:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

sudo reboot now

sudo apt-get autoremove

Should I prefer something other than Ubuntu (e.g Debian, Arch, CentOS) because it'll offer me better performance or better security? Or will sticking to Ubuntu offer me exactly the same performance and security as anything else for my usage scenario?

Edit: I do not care about how large the host O/S is on the server. I'm only looking into facts and figures which confirm whether performance and security are affected.

ubuntu security performance

share

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sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

sudo reboot now

sudo apt-get autoremove

share

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