Turnkey Linux : virtual appliance library
Turnkey Linux is a virtual appliance library that integrates and polishes the very best open source software into ready to use solutions. Each virtual appliance is optimized for ease of use and can be deployed in just a few minutes on bare metal, a virtual machine and in the cloud.
Packaging a solution as a virtual appliance can be incredibly useful because it allows you to leverage guru integration skills to build ready to use systems (I.e., turn key solutions) that just work out of the box with little to no setup.
Benifits
- Save time and money with 100+ ready-to-use solutions: discover and leverage the best free open source software. Deploy in minutes on bare metal, virtual machines, or in the cloud.
- It just works: designed for ease of use, built and pre-tested by a community of experts.
- Backup and migration: smart software saves changes to files, databases and package management to encrypted storage which servers can be automatically restored from.
- Secure and easy to maintain: auto-updated daily with latest security patches.
- 100% Open Source: free from expensive and restrictive proprietary licensing. Easy to customize and extend to build new appliances from the closest existing starting point.
- Based on Debian 6.0.5 (“squeeze”): with automatic security updates for all 29,000 packages.
- The TurnKey Linux virtual appliance library is licensed under the same terms as Ubuntu. In other words, you are free to download, use, redistribute and modify a virtual appliance for any purpose.
- Easy to use: includes a web management interface, web shell, and simple configuration console (screenshots).
- Lightweight (starting from 150MB): each virtual appliance is carefully built from the ground up with the minimum components needed to serve its role with maximum efficiency and security.
- Assured integrity: solutions are built from verfiably unmodified Ubuntu binaries, except for a few custom components for which full source code is available. Releases are cryptographically signed.
