I noticed every single provisioning service (forge, ploi, etc) uses full fat Ubuntu as an option, but never the much leaner Debian it is based on. Internally we have always preferred Debian as our base OS on servers and it not being offered is one of the reason we tend to avoid provisioning services altogether.
I would love to see Debian as an option for provisioning new servers. Since you already support Ubuntu, it should be pretty easy to just modify a few things and have it work exactly the same way for new installs. DigitalOcean for example allows you to spin up new droplets with Debian so VPS services do actually support it, just seemingly no provisioning services.
This would be a big win for our team specifically and a few others we work with.
I'd like to bump this. @Ploi please support Debian alongside Ubuntu for performance reasons.
Once @Dennis has implemented IPv6 this would be the next request I would vote up, however v6 is pressing, this is just a very nice thing to have. :)
Also voting on this, please at least support a Plain Server custom installation - this way we can keep using Ploi monitoring for VMs running for example Proxmox Backup Server.
As IPv6 support has been implemented for 6 months already would you move this to planned @Dennis ?
I am still doubting about this. What I wonder though how that IPv6 is related to this card exactly? 😊
Why are you doubting though? Most of the tools should work out of the box as a drop in replacement for Ubuntu. Are there any Ubuntu specifics that you would be missing in Debian?
What I wonder though how that IPv6 is related to this card exactly? 😊
Only that you are now free to work on this if I understand Josh Greens comment right ;)
I am actively looking into this in the upcoming days (and today), to see how viable it would be.
Good to see if Ploi can support multiple. Maybe for some critical workloads (highly stable) we will switch to debian again.
Did CentOS in the beginning -> Switched to Debian after CentOS was turning into Rocky and went with Ubuntu for everything after that.
I am actively looking for testers, for testing Debian! (12 and 13)
Kay already tested and from his perspective it looked pretty good. DM me on Discord (https://ploi.io/discord) or send me a email to dennis@Ploi.io so I can give you access.
really great you are moving forward on this, I already had to use another service where I was only handed a debian machine....
Option to use Debian as Server OS
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