Enterprise-grade Kubernetes
for multi-cloud operations

Secure your Kubernetes deployments long term and focus on applications, not infrastructure. With Canonical Kubernetes, you get hassle-free installation and maintenance, and peace of mind for your containerized workloads.

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Why choose
Canonical Kubernetes Platform?

  • 12-year security maintenance and support gives you control over your upgrades schedule
  • Easy to use with built-in, best-of-breed open source components for networking, local storage, DNS, load-balancer, metrics server, gateway, and ingress
  • Zero ops from Day 0 to Day 2 - add and manage nodes in small Kubernetes clusters with minimal effort
  • Automated cluster operations for easier large scale maintenance with Juju
  • The same security-maintained Kubernetes that scales from your laptop to the cloud and the data centre
  • CNCF conformant
Purchase support with Ubuntu Pro

What our clients say

“Kubernetes is both fast-moving and hard, so supporting it ourselves was not a viable option. The thought of having to support it would be daunting. To keep it supported and up to date, it’s better to have experts who do this every day involved and manage it for us.”

Michael Hawkshaw
Mission Operations Infrastructure IT Service Manager
European Space Operations Centre

“We were looking for a Kubernetes distribution that is close to the upstream Kubernetes project and offers enterprise support. Canonical support is very qualified, effective and well structured.”

Patric Lichtsteiner
Linux Senior System Engineer
ZHAW

Supporting Kubernetes since 2015

Canonical Kubernetes

Secure and automate your Kubernetes infrastructure with a trusted provider. Build on the experience we gained since 2015. Our new Kubernetes distribution offers hassle-free maintenance, single-line installation process, and more control over your upgrade cadence. It’s secure by default and comes with a 12-year support commitment offered with an Ubuntu Pro subscription.

Other distributions

MicroK8s

Lightweight, low-touch Kubernetes for cloud, edge and IoT. It brings all Kubernetes services and the most popular addons in a single package, and requires minimal ops for easy clustering, self-healing HA and simpler upgrades. Secure by default and CNCF conformant.

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Charmed Kubernetes

Composable, operator-based Kubernetes for the enterprise, with full life-cycle management for host and in-cluster with Juju. It provides carrier-grade and hardware acceleration features, and support for third-party components and services. It gives you fully customizable deployments, with pluggable CNI, CSI, CRI and monitoring components. Secure by default and CNCF conformant.

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Public cloud Kubernetes
powered by Ubuntu

Public cloud Kubernetes
powered by Ubuntu

Cloud-tailored experience, optimized kernels, unlimited options

  • Ubuntu is the host OS for the world’s most popular cloud-hosted Kubernetes
  • Optimized for performance, boot speed, and drivers on all major public clouds
  • Out-of-the-box cloud integration with the option of enterprise-grade commercial support
  • Ubuntu Pro provides deeper integrations with cloud services
  • In-cloud Ubuntu package mirrors for high bandwidth and local updates
  • Full control over kernel security patching with Canonical Livepatch

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Integrated
cluster management platforms

Remove the toil of Kubernetes cluster management

  • No need to yaml and cli, we integrate with the most popular GUIs
  • Single pane of glass for your Kubernetes and container estate
  • Unified multi-cluster management and real-time monitoring
  • Policy-based management, governance, security and compliance
  • GitOps at scale for application management and configuration
  • Flexibility across environments from public cloud to edge

Remove the toil of Kubernetes cluster management

  • No need to yaml and cli, we integrate with the most popular GUIs
  • Single pane of glass for your Kubernetes and container estate
  • Unified multi-cluster management and real-time monitoring
  • Policy-based management, governance, security and compliance
  • GitOps at scale for application management and configuration
  • Flexibility across environments from public cloud to edge

Bootstrap
your Kubernetes journey

Canonical Kubernetes consulting and cluster deployment services

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Kubernetes Explorer

Three-day Kubernetes training to ramp up your team’s skills, including:

What’s included

  • Kubernetes fundamentals
  • Container development basics
  • MicroK8s enablement
  • Charmed Kubernetes enablement
  • Monitoring and logging
  • Kubernetes lifecycle management
  • Security essentials

Kubernetes Discoverer

Three-day training and 2-week deployment of reference K8s architecture, including:

Discoverer Discoverer Plus

What’s included

  • High Availability
  • Public clouds, VMware, OpenStack
  • Public clouds, VMware, OpenStack, Bare Metal
  • Storage and SDN basic options
  • Storage and SDN extensive options
  • Logging, monitoring, alerting
  • Kubernetes lifecycle management
  • Security essentials
  • Supported or Fully Managed
  • Third-party integrations
  • GPU Acceleration
  • Private registry options

Fully-managed Kubernetes

Cost-effective Kubernetes-as-a-service on public and private clouds

  • Predictable economics, full-stack monitoring and clear responsibilities
  • Tailor-made Kubernetes deployments to address your use-cases
  • 24/7 active management by our team of experts
  • 99.9% uptime SLA means you get time back to focus on your business
  • Experiencing traffic peaks? On-request scaling is part of the deal
  • Upgrade fast to the latest stable Kubernetes the SAAS way
  • Data and security compliance certified by industry standards
  • Get back the keys to your Kubernetes as soon as you feel ready

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