Architectural freedom. Fully automated operations. Telco-grade OpenStack for all.
Canonical’s OpenStack on Ubuntu gives you the flexibility to place your OpenStack services exactly where you want them, while sharing all the operational code with a large community.
With SR-IOV for line-rate VNFs and CI/CD for dynamic cloud operations, our telco reference architecture for OpenStack meets both regulatory and operational requirements for highly automated telco infrastructure.
Move beyond single-VNF clouds or NEP-specific clouds, and create a general platform for cost-effective network operations across vendors.
Isolate critical services for high security OpenStack with simplified audit and compliance assessments.
Building and operating OpenStack for financial services enables us to address EU and US regulatory requirements.
Private cloud infrastructure on Ubuntu is part of the fintech revolution, from blockchain to digital transformation.
Hyper-converged storage and compute ensure maximum cost effectiveness for large-scale media processing, transcoding, digital workflows and storage.
Kubernetes on top provides a high-performance workload operations regime with direct access to underlying media content.
GPU acceleration of AI and machine learning workloads on OpenStack requires careful configuration of the underlying hardware and host OS. Canonical’s Ubuntu is the leading platform for public cloud GPU instances and Canonical offers private cloud expertise to match.
Build a GPU cluster and share it with multiple tenants using Canonical OpenStack - then operate Kubernetes on top for HPC and high-throughput AI / ML data science.
Migrate your existing VMs to Canonical OpenStack — quickly and cost-effectively.
Canonical provides workload analysis and migration services. Not every workload is best run on a cloud, but 80-90% of enterprise workloads can move to OpenStack easily, and are much more cost-effective to run there.
The main driver for most OpenStack cloud deployments is the cost benefit of a leaner and more open IAAS. Canonical OpenStack also offers a range of cloud services, and compatibility with multi-cloud operations tools. While legacy virtualisation continues to be important, the future is cloud APIs and container-based operations, which Canonical OpenStack delivers.
The biggest challenge of OpenStack is everyday operations automation, year after year, while OpenStack continues to evolve rapidly. Canonical solves this problem with model-driven operations that decouple your architectural choices from the operations codebase that supports upgrades, scaling, integration and security.
In traditional automation environments like Ansible, Chef and Puppet, your architectural choices are hard-coded in the configuration management system. That means two different companies who need two different architectures cannot really share ops code. Every environment becomes its own unique snowflake. That’s expensive.
With Canonical’s approach to OpenStack:
You don’t need to hire a large team that follows every aspect of OpenStack development. Just focus on high-level operations and your business workloads.
Operating private clouds means taking responsibility for physical infrastructure. Ubuntu OpenStack uses MAAS, the leading open source software-defined-data-center system and open source IPAM, to automate commissioning, allocation, provisioning and secure recycling of every server in the data centre.
Open source, with contributions from many companies. MAAS is used for bare metal operations in high performance computing, finance, gaming, telco edge and core, and many other sectors.
Canonical leads the world in containerising the OpenStack control plane, enabling ultra-efficient placement of OpenStack services alongside guest compute and storage, reducing OpenStack cloud costs.
Our OpenStack consulting and design services will help you choose the right mix of these capabilities for the particular stage and scale of your private cloud journey; having built hundreds of private clouds, we’re well placed to advise on the tradeoffs and steer you to the right architecture. Perhaps most importantly, though, we can evolve OpenStack deployments over a series of iterations as your needs change, which keeps your options open.
If you’re building a private cloud you want the maximum performance for your workloads, the maximum utilisation in your data center, and the maximum economic efficiency. Canonical delivers all three.
Understanding compute price/performance in a cloud environment is non-trivial. Multiple factors shape cloud performance and efficiency - from your choice of architecture, networking, storage and ultimately the hardware you build it on. Canonical has built enough clouds to provide deep insights into your architecture for utilisation and performance.
Economics are the ultimate measure of effectiveness in the modern compute substrate; your private cloud has to be as efficient as your public clouds or it won’t attract internal workloads.
There’s no doubt that Kubernetes is the new standard operational layer for every multi-cloud business. Canonical partners with Google to enable K8s on demand for your devops teams - on OpenStack, on VMware, on public clouds, and on bare metal clusters with MAAS. Kubernetes support is included on a simple per-node basis in your OpenStack cloud. No additional paperwork necessary.
Deliver ‘Containers as a Service’ across the enterprise with Canonical’s Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK) which enables each project to spin up a standardised K8s of arbitrary scale, on demand, with centralised operational control.
docker and containerd runtimesIn partnership with Google, Canonical delivers the perfect K8s for AI and machine learning with Kubeflow.
Storage performance and economics are tricky to balance in a cloud environment. Canonical will help you architect your storage across the cluster to balance price and performance, ensuring the right mix of resilience, latency, IOPS and integrity for your particular deployment.
Learn more about storage with Ubuntu Advantage for Infrastructure ›
An open source distributed storage platform, providing a flexible storage option for OpenStack, Kubernetes and standalone storage clusters.
Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack provides support for various other storage platforms including Swift, SAN, Nexenta, Pure Storage and StorPool.
Aggregate network throughput and latency across the underlying layer is a major factor in cloud performance. Canonical’s work with hyperscale public clouds ensures that we have deep insight into the dynamics of cloud network performance and security best practices for large-scale multi-tenanted operations. Our work with telco for NFV and edge clouds ensures that we can work well in complex environments where latency and security are critical.
Operations in highly coherent large-scale distributed clusters require a new level of operational monitoring and observability. Canonical delivers a standardised set of open source log aggregation and systems monitoring dashboards with every cloud, using Prometheus, the Elasticsearch and Kibana stack (ELK) and Nagios.
Find out how Canonical’s OpenStack on Ubuntu can give you the flexibility to share operational code with a large community whilst placing your services exactly where you want them.