DATA CENTRE

• Supported by Canonical until 2023
• Runs on all major architectures – x86, x86-64, ARM v7, ARM64, POWER8 and IBM s390x (LinuxONE)
• New ubuntu-minimal images that are smaller and boot faster
• Fast and accurate time synchronization with chrony
• A new, default server installer ISO with a new interface and faster install
• Supports ZFS, the next-generation volume management/ file system ideal for servers and containers
• LXD 3.0 – Linux containers including clustering, Qos, and resource controls (CPU, memory, block I/O/ graphics, and storage quota)

• Updates to LXD (v3.0), DPDK (v17.11.1), Postgresql (v10.3), Libvirt (v4.0), NGINX (v1.13), Qemu (v2.11.1), Docker (v17.03), Puppet (v4.10), MySQL (v5.7), PHP (v7.2), and more
• Install snaps for simple application installation and release management
• Linux 4.15 kernel
• Certification as a guest on AWS, Microsoft Azure, Joyent, IBM, Google Cloud Platform and Rackspace
• Easily configure networking through netplan.io

Landscape allows you to manage thousands of Ubuntu machines as easily as one, making the administration of Ubuntu desktops, servers and cloud instances more cost-effective. It’s easy to set up, easy to use and it requires no special hardware.

• Management at scale
• Deploy security updates
• Compliance reporting
• Role-based access
• Informative monitoring

In addition to x86 and ARM servers, Ubuntu is supported on the Power architecture. For the enterprise datacentre, this means you can now build your infrastructure on any hardware you choose.

It doesn’t matter whether you want to deploy a NoSQL database, web farm or cloud. Ubuntu has the performance and versatility you need. Certified by leading hardware OEMs and with comprehensive deployment tools, so you can get the most from your infrastructure.

Our regular release cycle means that we support most of the latest applications. A lean initial installation and integrated deployment and application modeling technologies make Ubuntu Server a great solution for simple deployment and management at scale.

Long-term support (LTS) releases of Ubuntu Server are supported by Canonical for five years. Every six months, interim releases bring new features, while hardware enablement updates add support for the latest machines to all supported LTS releases.

With the option of a command line or browser-based interface, Juju enables you to design and deploy entire workloads in just a few clicks. It works on public clouds like AWS and Microsoft Azure, private clouds built on OpenStack and even directly on bare metal, via MAAS.

Learn more about Juju

MAAS is a time-saving provisioning system which makes it quick and easy to set up the physical hardware to deploy complex services, like Ubuntu’s OpenStack cloud infrastructure. Just plug in your servers, connect them to the network and let MAAS do the rest.

Learn more about MAAS

LXD, the Linux container hypervisor, merges the speed and density of containers with the manageability and security of traditional virtual machines. Economics are directly tied to density, and no other virtualisation technology is as fast or dense as LXD.

Learn more about LXD