Kalvad Ditches Ubuntu for Alpine and FreeBSD: A Deep Dive into OS Migration

Kalvad recently underwent a significant server operating system migration, moving from Ubuntu to Alpine Linux and FreeBSD. This post details their rationale, including an in-depth evaluation of various OSes' performance, security, and resource efficiency. They chose Alpine Linux for stateless services and FreeBSD for those requiring high throughput and reliability, highlighting the advantages of ZFS, PF firewall, and pkg package manager. While challenges like software updates and tool compatibility arose, Kalvad found the benefits of FreeBSD and Alpine far outweighed the drawbacks, resulting in significantly improved system stability, efficiency, and security.