A way for startups to build a solid IT infrastructure (2017)

When planning the setup of our infrastructure, we kept two things in mind: First, we wanted to have open source software running wherever possible, and second, we wanted to use strong encryption for both communication and data storage. Our main reasons for choosing Arch Linux were its active community, good documentation, highly up-to-date repositories with current versions of important software, good support for disk encryption, and finally, the fact that Arch Linux has a rolling update scheme instead of a release-based one. Other reasons for using Docker can be wanting to try something out without messing up your host system or maybe software is simply not available for your Linux distribution.

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