Ubuntu

Linux is an operating system used as a headless server environment for running agents.

IBM Cloud is IBM's suite of public, private and hybrid cloud computing services, providing infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and cloud-native services (including containers and Kubernetes). It is operated by IBM and integrates with IBM enterprise offerings such as Red Hat OpenShift.

Ansible is an agentless IT automation platform for configuration management, application deployment, cloud provisioning, ad-hoc task execution, network automation, and multi-node orchestration. It describes infrastructure and tasks in a human- and machine-readable language, connects to remote systems through existing SSH services, and executes changes across machines in parallel without installing agents or opening additional ports. Ansible can be installed through pip or a package manager and supports operations such as application deployment, infrastructure updates, and zero-downtime rolling changes with load balancers.

Talos Linux is a modern, minimal Linux distribution built for running Kubernetes. Developed and supported by Sidero Labs, it is immutable and hardened, with all system management performed through an API rather than a shell or interactive console. API access uses mutual TLS authentication, while immutable infrastructure and atomic updates are intended to reduce configuration drift and support predictable Kubernetes and Linux updates. The project is fully open source and production-ready.

Dokploy is an open-source, self-hostable platform as a service for deploying and managing applications and databases on VPS instances or owned hardware. It supports deployments from Git repositories, Docker images, and Docker Compose.