Any sysadmins here to suggest an alternative server distro? We've been installing Ubuntu in most of our VMs at our company, and while I realize it's a hassle to switch them all, I kinda want to at least have a discussion about it.
Fedora is the only other "server distro" that I know of but obviously you can install any distro and just omit the desktop environment from the install.
Since you(r team) already have the Ubuntu experience, the obvious and senseful migration path is Debian. Stable plus docker/podman covers for most of what's needed plus cover for the "bUt thIS paCKaGe iS 2 weEkS olD!!!!!1" crew.