--- title: "Trusted Kubernetes for production at scale\n | Ubuntu" description: Canonical’s securely designed Kubernetes offers hassle-free installation and maintenance for your containerized workloads. url: https://ubuntu.com/kubernetes?format=md keywords: index, follow --- # Enterprise Kubernetes for production at scale Try Canonical Kubernetes to simplify your deployments, and focus on applications, not infrastructure. With Canonical Kubernetes, you get hassle-free installation and maintenance, and peace of mind for your containerized workloads. [Get in touch](https://ubuntu.com/kubernetes/contact-us) [Try Canonical Kubernetes today ›](https://ubuntu.com/kubernetes/install) --- ## Why choose Canonical Kubernetes platform? * Up to 15-year security maintenance and support gives you long term stability, reliability, and control over your upgrades schedule * Easy to use with built-in, enterprise-grade 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](https://juju.is) * The same security-maintained Kubernetes that scales from your laptop to the cloud and the data center * CNCF conformant [Purchase support with Ubuntu Pro](https://ubuntu.com/pro/subscribe) --- ## What our clients say --- --- *“Kubernetes is both fast-moving and hard, so supporting it ourselves was not a viable option. 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 Automate your Kubernetes infrastructure with a trusted provider. Our new Kubernetes distribution is secure by default, offers [a built-in FIPS 140-3 mode](https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-releases-fips-enabled-kubernetes), and features a single-line installation process along with greater control and simplicity in maintenance and upgrading. Ubuntu Pro elevates your Kubernetes security. Get up to 15 years of automated security patching that covers the underlying Ubuntu OS nodes and the Kubernetes software itself. Ubuntu Pro also provides enterprise-grade support, hardening tools, and compliance profiles for long-term stability and an easier path to compliance. [Talk to us to learn more](https://ubuntu.com/kubernetes/contact-us) --- ### Other distributions #### MicroK8s Compact and low-touch, MicroK8s has been one of the most popular lightweight Kubernetes editions for cloud, edge, and IoT since 2016. MicroK8s combines all Kubernetes services and the most popular addons into a single package, and requires minimal ops for easy clustering, self-healing HA, and simpler upgrades. MicroK8s is secure by default and CNCF conformant. --- [Learn more about MicroK8s ›](https://microk8s.io/) --- #### Charmed Kubernetes Composable, operator-based Kubernetes for the enterprise, with full life-cycle management for host and in-cluster with [Juju](https://juju.is/). Charmed Kubernetes 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. Charmed Kubernetes is secure by default and CNCF conformant. --- [Learn more about Charmed Kubernetes ›](https://ubuntu.com/kubernetes/charmed-k8s) --- ## Get full integration for your Kubernetes on public clouds, powered by Ubuntu ## Get full integration for your Kubernetes on public clouds, powered by Ubuntu Get full integration and extensive optimizations for Kubernetes on all major public clouds when you use Ubuntu as your host OS. --- * Ubuntu is the host OS for the world's most popular cloud-hosted Kubernetes * Ubuntu is optimized for performance, boot speed, and drivers on all major public clouds * Get out-of-the-box cloud integration with the option of enterprise-grade commercial support * Get in-cloud Ubuntu package mirrors for high bandwidth and local updates * Get full control over kernel security patching with Canonical Livepatch * Get up to 15 years of on-cloud security maintenance and additional features through [Ubuntu Pro](https://ubuntu.com/pro) [Learn more about Ubuntu on public clouds ›](https://ubuntu.com/public-cloud) --- ## Automated Kubernetes lifecycle Remove the toil of Kubernetes cluster management --- * Declarative cluster provisioning and lifecycle management with Cluster API * A consistent operating model for Kubernetes clusters across different infrastructures * Open and vendor-neutral approach built around upstream Kubernetes tooling * Better automation, repeatability, and compliance for large-scale cluster fleets * Observability on a single pane of glass for your Kubernetes and container estate * Unified multi-cluster supervision and real-time cluster monitoring * Policy-based management, governance, security and compliance * GitOps at scale for application management and configuration * Flexibility across environments from public cloud to edge * Integration with **Sylva** for telecom, edge, and distributed cloud environments --- ## Bootstrap your Kubernetes journey Canonical Kubernetes consulting and cluster deployment services [Get in touch to learn more ›](https://ubuntu.com/kubernetes/contact-us) --- ### 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 (HA) * [Public clouds](https://ubuntu.com/public-cloud), VMware, [OpenStack](https://ubuntu.com/openstack) * Storage and SDN basic 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 [More on Managed Kubernetes ›](https://ubuntu.com/kubernetes/managed) --- ## Learn more about Canonical Kubernetes * [The European Space Agency modernized its infrastructure with Canonical Kubernetes](https://ubuntu.com/case-study/esa) Find out why ESA chose Canonical to implement a new, dynamic platform for efficient, automated, and fast deployment of systems across their missions. * [Optimize your ML workloads on Kubernetes](https://ubuntu.com/engage/optimise-ml-workloads-on-kubernetes) Leverage your existing computing power to accelerate model training in order to move your ML projects to production. * [How to run workloads on bare metal Kubernetes with MAAS](https://ubuntu.com/engage/bare-metal-kubernetes) Understand bare metal Kubernetes and how it compares to virtual machines. [Find more resources](https://ubuntu.com/kubernetes/resources) --- ## Talk to an expert [Get in touch](https://ubuntu.com/kubernetes/contact-us)