Guides on Linode Guides & Tutorials

Deploy a Galera Cluster

Mon, 20 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Galera provides a performant MariaDB database solution with synchronous replication to achieve high availability. Galera is deployed with MariaDB, which is an open-source database management system that uses a relational database and SQL (Structured Query Language) to manage its data. MariaDB was originally based off of MySQL and maintains backward compatibility.

Deploy a LAMP Stack

Tue, 26 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

A LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack is a popular, free, and open-source web software bundle used for hosting websites on Linux. This software environment is a foundation for popular PHP application frameworks like WordPress, Drupal, and Laravel. After you deploy your LAMP Quick Deploy App, you can upload your existing PHP application code to it or use a PHP framework to write a new application on your Linode.

Deploy a LEMP Stack

Wed, 11 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The LEMP stack (Linux, NGINX, MySQL, PHP) is a popular, free, and open-source web software bundle used for hosting websites on the Linux operating system. While similar to the LAMP Stack, a LEMP stack uses the NGINX web server instead of Apache. NGINX is preferred by many users for a variety of reasons, including its flexibility, speed, and ability to perform under high load.

Deploy a MEAN Stack

Tue, 17 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

A MEAN (MongoDB, Express, Angular, Node.js) stack is a free and open-source web software bundle used to build modern web applications:

Deploy a MERN Stack

Tue, 02 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

A MERN (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js) stack is a free and open-source web software bundle used to build modern web applications:

Deploy a Minecraft Server

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

With over 100 million users around the world, Minecraft is the most popular online game of all time. You and other players are free to build and explore in a 3D generated world made up of millions of mineable blocks. Collect resources by leveling mountains, taming forests, and venturing out to sea. Choose a home from the varied list of biomes like ice worlds, flower plains, and jungles. Build ancient castles or modern mega cities and fill them with redstone circuit contraptions and villagers. Fight off nightly invasions of Skeletons, Zombies, and explosive Creepers, or adventure to the End and the Nether to summon the fabled End Dragon and the chaotic Wither. If that is not enough, Minecraft is also highly moddable and customizable. You decide the rules when hosting your own Minecraft server for you and your friends to play together in this highly addictive game.

Deploy a PostgreSQL Cluster

Mon, 20 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The PostgreSQL relational database system is a powerful, scalable, and standards-compliant open-source database platform. It is designed to handle a range of workloads, from single machines to data warehouses or Web services with many concurrent users.

Deploy a Redis Sentinel Cluster

Mon, 20 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Redis is an open-source, in-memory, data-structure store, with the optional ability to write and persist data to a disk, which can be used as a key-value database, cache, and message broker. Redis features built-in transactions, replication, and support for a variety of data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, and others.

Deploy aaPanel

Fri, 13 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000

aaPanel is a free and open source web hosting control panel. It lets you manage the server’s web server, websites, databases, FTP, and more through a simple web-based interface. Through aaPanel, you can quickly install a LEMP (NGINX) or LAMP (Apache) stack on your server and start hosting your websites.

Deploy Akaunting

Tue, 25 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Akaunting is a free open source online accounting software designed for small businesses and freelancers. This universal accounting software can help you run your small business more efficiently. It has an extensive feature set that aims to provide you with an simple all-in-one accounting solution. From its user-friendly dashboard, you can track expenses, generate reports, manage your books, manage your employees, handle your invoices/bills, and so much more.

Deploy Ant Media Server Community Edition

Tue, 30 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Ant Media Server is an open source video streaming platform known for its scalability and low latency. It supports WebRTC live streaming, as well as CMAF and HLS streaming, and can be ingested through RTMP, WebRTC, or HLS. There are two editions of Ant Media Server: Community Edition and Enterprise Edition. This Quick Deploy App installs the Community Edition.

Deploy Ant Media Server Enterprise Edition

Tue, 29 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Deploy Apache Cassandra Cluster

Mon, 05 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Cluster Deployment Architecture

Create a highly available Apache Cassandra cluster. Apache Cassandra is an open-source, distributed NoSQL database management system designed for handling large amounts of data across many commodity servers, providing high availability with no single point of failure. Cassandra offers robust support for clusters with asynchronous masterless replication, allowing low-latency operations for all clients.

Deploy Apache Guacamole

Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Apache Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway that provides access to desktop environments using remote desktop protocols (VNC, RDP, SSH) through a standard web browser. Unlike traditional remote access solutions, Guacamole requires no plugins or client software installation, making it ideal for accessing remote systems from any device. This deployment uses Docker containers with PostgreSQL database backend for scalable user and connection management, NGINX reverse proxy for security, and automated SSL certificate management.

Deploy Apache Kafka

Mon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Apache Kafka is a robust, scalable, and high-performance system for managing real-time data streams. Its versatile architecture and feature set make it an essential component for modern data infrastructure, supporting a wide range of applications, from log aggregation to real-time analytics and more. Whether you are building data pipelines, event-driven architectures, or stream processing applications, Kafka provides a reliable foundation for your data needs.

Deploy Apache Spark

Tue, 09 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Apache Spark is a powerful open-source unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing. It provides high-level APIs in Java, Scala, Python, and R, and an optimized engine that supports general execution graphs. Spark is designed for both batch and streaming data processing, and it’s significantly faster than traditional big data processing frameworks.

Deploy Appwrite

Mon, 26 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Appwrite is an open-source, self-hosted back-end server that provides developers with a set of tools and services to build and manage web and mobile applications. It offers various features to simplify the development process, including user authentication, database management, file storage, and more.

Deploy ArangoDB

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

ArangoDB is a native multi-model database that combines graph, document, and search capabilities into a single platform. It provides a unified query language (AQL) to access all data models seamlessly. ArangoDB is designed for high performance and scalability, making it suitable for various applications including fraud detection, recommendation systems, knowledge graphs, and IoT data management. The Community Edition offers core functionality including native graph traversal, document storage, and ArangoSearch capabilities. With its flexible schema and powerful query capabilities, ArangoDB enables developers to build applications that can handle complex data relationships and perform sophisticated analytics.

Deploy AzuraCast

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

AzuraCast is a free self-hosted web radio station and management suite. The installation with Quick Deploy Apps is simple and the intuitive web interface makes the running a web station easy. After the installation, you can be broadcasting within minutes.

Deploy Backstage Developer Portal

Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Backstage is an open-source platform for building developer portals designed to simplify and unify software development processes. It provides a centralized hub for managing services, tools, and documentation. Backstage enables teams to improve efficiency, collaboration, and scalability across projects.

Deploy BeEF

Fri, 12 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

BeEF (The Browser Exploitation Framework) is a penetration testing tool that focuses on the web browser. BeEF offers an efficient and affective penetration test tool to assess the actual security posture of a target environment by using client-side attack vectors. BeEF looks beyond just the network perimeter and client system. It lets you examine exploitability within the context of the web browser.

Deploy Chroma

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Chroma is the AI-native open-source embedding database. Chroma makes it easy to build LLM apps by making knowledge, facts, and skills pluggable for LLMs.

Deploy Cloudron

Tue, 15 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Cloudron is a platform that makes it easy to install, manage, and secure web apps on a server. Cloudron provides a centralized way to manage users and specify which apps they can access.

Deploy ClusterControl

Fri, 13 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000

ClusterControl (by developer Severalnines) is a unified console to manage the full database lifecycle of the most popular open-source databases (on-premise or in the cloud). Provision, monitor and manage highly available database clusters in minutes with dashboards, backups, notifications, reports and automated recovery.

Deploy Couchbase One-Click Cluster

Mon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Couchbase is an enterprise class NoSQL database designed with memory-first architecture, built-in cache and workload isolation. The Couchbase One-Click cluster deploys three, five, or seven connected Couchbase Enterprise Server nodes split between Data, Index, and Query services. This initial configuration allows quick deployment and cluster expansion with Couchbase’s multi-dimensional scaling.

Deploy Counter-Strike Global Offensive

Thu, 28 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) is a fast-paced first person shooter. Teams compete against each other to complete objectives or to eliminate the opposing team. A competitive match requires two teams of five players, but hosting your own server offers you control over team size and server location, so you and your friends can play with low latency. Up to 64 players can be hosted on a single server.

Deploy cPanel

Fri, 13 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

cPanel is a Linux-based server/website administration platform that streamlines publishing and managing websites. It is widely used by individual businesses, web development agencies, and hosting platforms. cPanel (and the included WHM interface) provides an easy and intuitive method for managing all aspects of website administration, including software installation, DNS, databases, email, and much more.

Deploy Cribl Stream

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Cribl Stream is a vendor-agnostic observability pipeline that gives you full control over your data—allowing you to route, shape, enrich, and reduce event data from any source to any destination. It enables organizations to optimize costs and improve observability by filtering and transforming data before it reaches downstream systems like SIEMs, observability platforms, or data lakes. With its intuitive UI and powerful processing engine, Cribl Stream makes it easier to manage high-volume data ingestion without sacrificing visibility.

Deploy CyberPanel

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

CyberPanel is a next-generation hosting control panel, which provides a friendly user interface. The CyberPanel app provides a One-Click installer for OpenLiteSpeed, LSCache, WordPress, Prestashop, Joomla, Magento, and Git. It also automates the initial setup for components like mail service and DNS to reduce the time it takes to get set up.

Deploy DeepSeek R1

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Open WebUI is an open-source, self-hosted web interface for interacting with and managing Large Language Models (LLMs). It supports multiple AI backends, multi-user access, and extensible integrations, enabling secure and customizable deployment for local or remote model inference.