Canonical
Publisher of Ubuntu and enterprise open source infrastructure
About Canonical
Canonical publishes the Ubuntu operating system and sells support, security maintenance and managed services for open source infrastructure. Its portfolio includes Kubernetes distributions, OpenStack, and tooling for AI and ML workloads.
Common use cases
- Cloud-native platform operations
- Private cloud
- Edge deployments
- ML pipeline hosting
Products and services
Ubuntu Pro
Subscription for extended security maintenance and support of Ubuntu.
Charmed Kubernetes and MicroK8s
Kubernetes distributions for production and edge use.
Juju
Application orchestration and lifecycle tool.
Charmed OpenStack
Private cloud platform.
Charmed Kubeflow and MLflow
Packaged open source MLOps components.
Key features
- Linux distribution
- Extended security maintenance
- Kubernetes distributions
- Private cloud
- Application orchestration
- MLOps components
Integrations
- AWS
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud
- NVIDIA
- Kubernetes
- OpenStack
Canonical alternatives
FAQs
Is Ubuntu free?
Ubuntu is open source and free; Canonical charges for support, security coverage and managed services.
Does Canonical support AI workloads?
It packages Kubeflow, MLflow and NVIDIA tooling and offers support for AI infrastructure on Ubuntu.
Who uses it?
Enterprises running Linux, Kubernetes or OpenStack infrastructure.

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