Canonical Combines its Services in a Single Package

Apr 30, 2019

Now customers can gain access to all of its services under Ubuntu Advantage offering.

At the Open Infrastructure Summit, Canonical announced its plans to consolidate its services for enterprise users.

Under a new offering called Ubuntu Advantage for Infrastructure, Canonical is “aggregating Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenStack, KVM, Ceph, and SWIFT security update and support offerings into a single package which enables businesses to evolve from traditional infrastructure to private cloud and container operations without introducing any new cost,” said Stephan Fabel, Director of Product at Canonical.

For those users who do not need technical support, the Essential level of UA for Infrastructure provides a stream of kernel live patches and security fixes for system services and libraries, including OpenStack and Kubernetes, Ceph and SWIFT, together with FIPS and a range of infrastructure management and operations capabilities such as Prometheus, Grafana, Telegraf, Graylog, Filebeat, Elastic Search, MAAS and Canonical’s Landscape systems management offering.

UA Infrastructure Essential covers regulatory compliance for Linux and infrastructure components, including base Docker images, without adding the cost of support.

“A surge of customers adding Ubuntu to their list of officially supported operating systems has given us the volume to simplify our infrastructure security and support offering, and lower the average cost per machine even further,” said Mark Shuttleworth, CEO at Canonical.

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