TurnKey Core is the base operating system which all TurnKey GNU/Linux solutions share in common. It is commonly deployed standalone as a convenient starting point for custom system integrations. Benefits include automatic daily security updates, 1-click backup and restore (TKLBAM), a web control panel (Webmin), and preconfigured system monitoring (Monit) with optional email alerts.
Features:
Base Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 'stable'.
Build formats: Deploys on bare metal, virtual machines (e.g., OpenStack, VMWare, VirtualBox, LXC, KVM, Xen) and in the cloud.
- ISO images: Generic installable Live CD. Installs anywhere.
- Virtual Machine images: Optimized for virtualized hardware, pre-installed and ready to run.
- Amazon Machine Image (AMI): Best launched via the TurnKey Hub.
Free as in speech: free software with full source code and a powerful build system. Free of hidden backdoors, free from restrictive licensing and free to learn from, modify and distribute.
Secure and easy to maintain: Auto-updated daily with latest Debian security patches. Optional monitoring and email notification of system alerts.
1-click backup and restore (TKLBAM): smart backup and data migration software saves changes to files, databases and package management to encrypted storage which a system can be automatically restored from.
Dynamic DNS (HubDNS): Associates your IP with a custom domain or the free *.tklapp.com domain.
Logical Volume Management (LVM): Instead of installing to a fixed size partition, a Logical Volume is first created by default, and this may later be expanded, even across multiple physical devices.
Web management interface (WebUI) (Webmin):
- Listens on port 12321 (uses SSL).
- Provides fully interactive shell in your web browser.
- Modern responsive theme: 'Authentic'.
- Network modules:
- Firewall configuration (with example configuration).
- Network configuration.
- System modules:
- Backup and migration (TKLBAM).
- Configure time, date and timezone.
- Configure users and groups.
- Manage software packages.
- Change passwords.
- System logs.
- Tool modules:
- Fully interactive shell.
- Text editor.
- Simple file upload/download.
- File manager (HTML5).
- Custom commands.
- Hardware modules:
- Partitions on local disks.
- Logical volume management.
Simple configuration console (cli) (confconsole):
- Displays basic usage information.
- Configure networking.
- Let's Encrypt SSL/TLS certificates.
- Mail SMTP relay setup.
- Proxy settings.
- Region and timezone.
- Other global system settings.
First boot initialization (inithooks):
- Prompt user for passwords.
- Regenerates SSL and SSH cryptographic keys.
- Installs latest security updates, unless user chooses to defer this for later.
Command line power tools
Smart, programmable bash shell completion: helps you get more done with fewer keystrokes.
Support for $HOME/.bashrc.d shell hooks
Persistent environment variables (see $HOME/.bashrc.d/penv):
penv-set pydoc /usr/share/doc/python2.7/html exit # later... cd $pydoc
Automatic time synchronization with NTP
Take a look at some screenshots.
- Webmin, SSH, Shellinabox: username root