Scale out with Ubuntu Server
Ubuntu Server brings economic and technical scalability to your data centre, public or private cloud. Whether you want to deploy an OpenStack cloud, a Kubernetes cluster or a 50,000-node render farm, Ubuntu Server delivers the best value scale-out performance available.
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Performance and versatility
Agile, secure, deploy-anywhere technology for fast-moving companies
It doesn't matter whether you want to deploy a NoSQL database, web farm or cloud. Certified by leading hardware OEMs and with comprehensive deployment tools, so you can get the most from your infrastructure.
Our regular release cycle means access to the latest and most performant open source. A lean initial installation along with integrated deployment and application modelling technologies make Ubuntu Server a great solution for simple deployment and management at scale.
A release schedule
you can depend on
Stay up-to-date with regular updates and upgrades
Long-term support (LTS) releases of Ubuntu Server receive standard security updates for around 2,500 packages in the Ubuntu Main repository for five years by default. Every six months, interim releases bring new features, while hardware enablement updates add support for the latest machines to all supported LTS releases.
Ubuntu Pro subscriptions expands security maintenance to over 30,000 packages for 10 years and provides optional, enterprise-grade phone and ticket support by Canonical.
Security support for Ubuntu releases
| Released | End of Life | Expanded security maintenance | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24.04 LTS | Apr 2024 | Apr 2034 | |
| Ubuntu 22.04 LTS | April 2022 | April 2027 | |
| Ubuntu 21.10 | October 2021 | July 2022 | |
| Ubuntu 21.04 | April 2021 | January 2022 | |
| Ubuntu 20.10 | October 2020 | July 2021 | |
| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS | April 2020 | April 2025 | April 2030 |
| Ubuntu 19.10 | October 2019 | July 2020 | |
| Ubuntu 19.04 | April 2019 | January 2020 | |
| Ubuntu 18.10 | October 2018 | July 2019 | |
| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS | April 2018 | April 2023 | April 2028 |
| Ubuntu 16.04 LTS | April 2016 | April 2021 | April 2024 |
| Ubuntu 14.04 LTS | April 2014 | April 2019 | April 2022 |
| Ubuntu 12.04 LTS | April 2012 | April 2017 | April 2019 |
| Ubuntu 10.04 LTS | April 2010 | April 2015 |
Infrastructure
and applications foundation
From public clouds to data centres to devices
Ubuntu is the most popular guest operating system on public clouds, the foundation for private cloud implementation and the platform of choice of developers according to the2020 HackerEarth Developer Survey.
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Use it with other Canonical products
Multi-cloud orchestration
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.
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Bare metal provisioning
MAAS is a time-saving provisioning system that 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.
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Machine containers
Economics are directly tied to compute density. LXD, the Linux container hypervisor, merges the speed and density of containers with the manageability and security of traditional virtual machines.
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Ubuntu Pro
Ubuntu Pro offers a single, per-node packaging of the most comprehensive software, hardening and security in the industry. With the Base OS, OpenStack, Kubernetes and Applications security maintenance included, Ubuntu Pro delivers everything you need to future-proof your data centre.
Furthermore, you can add support for the Base OS, Infrastructure and Applications.
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Whether you want to configure a simple file server or build a fifty thousand-node cloud, you can rely on Ubuntu Server and its five years of guaranteed free upgrades.
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