Straightforward, nimble edge infrastructure
Power edge innovation with the freedom of open source.
Deploy, maintain and secure your edge infrastructure. Scale with ease and keep in tune with updates and innovations through seamless, low-touch management tooling. Put security at the heart of your approach.
Get closer to where the insights happen and process data at source.
Get to the heart of the story behind your data more quickly. Process data at source and benefit from reduced latency, more efficient processing and faster insights.
Build out the infrastructure you need to capture insights at the edge with flexible open source tooling.
Innovate on your chosen hardware and devices
Canonical’s portfolio is built with the interoperability that open source software is known for. Deploy your edge cloud on the hardware of your choice - whether that’s by repurposing your existing hardware or procuring new hardware.
Canonical works with leading manufacturers to certify Ubuntu for their devices - ensuring that users get the best out-of-the-box experience possible.
Immutable. Lightweight. Embedded.
According to the 2024 IoT and Embedded Developer Survey Report by the Eclipse Foundation, more developers are using either Ubuntu or Ubuntu Core than any other OS.
Ubuntu Core brings you the benefits of Ubuntu’s stability and ecosystem, in embedded form.
Ubuntu Core is strictly immutable and composed entirely of snaps - lightweight, containerized application packages. Deploy MicroCloud on Ubuntu Core for use cases requiring a lightweight, immutable OS, and a low-touch cloud solution.
Fully-functional edge clouds
Create a fully-functional edge cloud in minutes with Canonical MicroCloud. MicroCloud makes your journey to the edge as smooth as possible.
As a composable, modular stack built with open and standard APIs in mind, MicroCloud fits in with your existing infrastructure, tooling and policies.
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Securely-designed edge infrastructure
Canonical’s edge portfolio is designed with security at heart, giving you the tools you need to effectively protect and govern your edge infrastructure.
Minimize your attack surface
Deploy edge applications on Ubuntu Core for a locked-down, low-touch approach. Composed entirely of snaps, each application is strictly containerized, updated independently and protected against corruption.
Distribute software securely
The Enterprise Store provides an on-premise edge proxy to the general Snap Store for your devices. This enables network-restricted devices to access snaps by registering devices with the Proxy and routing all communication through it. Support for air-gapped deployments is available through offline mode, making it suitable for isolated environments.
Patching and maintenance for up to 12 years
Opt for an Ubuntu Pro subscription and benefit from automated patching and compliance for up to 12 years, across your whole stack, whichever Canonical solutions you consume.
What our customers think
“Our customers in the medical industry require a security scan of any technical product they are using. If you don’t have an OS that is continuously patched and maintained, you don’t pass. Ubuntu Pro for Devices ensures that we can meet the requirements of our clients.”
Kimmo Alanen
Vice President, Grundium
“We package all of our software as snaps now, even our internal apps. It’s a good environment for running software in a nice, strict way and bringing applications up to a high standard.”
Brendan Carroll
CEO, EpiSensor
Manage your edge infrastructure with ease
Keep your edge devices working together in harmony and focus on scaling your efforts. Make your operations low-touch, whilst prioritizing the health and runtime of your devices.
Run virtual machines and containerized workloads on your servers.
Scale with ease through features such as flexible resource limits, live-migration support and server segmentation.
Roll out updates over-the-air, at scale with the Enterprise Store.
Govern which snaps or apps are available and when they are rolled out with fine-grained revision control for your devices.
Benefit from hassle-free installation and maintenance with Canonical Kubernetes.
Automate your cluster operations and get up to 12 years of long-term support.
Manage your devices with Canonical Landscape. Available with an Ubuntu Pro subscription, Landscape gives you visibility and control over operations and updates, on a single pane of glass.
Alternatively, integrate third-party device management platforms with Canonical solutions.
What customers say
“Adopting Ubuntu Core has helped our engineers mature their thinking in how we deliver scalable enterprise products. It’s enabled us to move from an R&D product to a full-scale enterprise solution. And now that we’ve established these pathways, developing our next edge products will be even faster.”
Robert Martin
Vice President of Technology, Rehrig Pacific
“With LXD there’s no loss of function like you get with a hypervisor. We benchmarked it against our existing environment and it delivered twice the performance on our database with half the resources.”
Suzie Roseberry
Intelligent Transportation Systems Developer and Database Administrator, Wyoming Department of Transportation
Edge computing by the numbers
75%
of IoT/edge developers use open source technology.1
50 nodes
MicroCloud can support clusters between 1 and 50 nodes.
Over 1000
pieces of hardware are currently certified by Canonical.
Up to 12
years of security maintenance with Ubuntu Pro - whichever Canonical solutions you use.
Edge computing that drives impact across industries
The principles of edge computing have a wide range of applications, across different industries. Harness open source technology and tailor your edge infrastructure to your specific needs.
Logistics
Rehrig Pacific are industry leaders in waste, recycling and supply chain solutions. Discover how they harnessed Ubuntu Core to run AI models on edge devices, whilst remaining compliant with customer firewalls.
Telco edge
Build a trusted, reliable and fully functional end-to-end network with lifecycle management and automation in place, in our guide to using open source for telecom infrastructure.
Digital signage
Learn how Screenly, a leader in digital signage technology, used Ubuntu Core and the Snap Store to create a platform for customers that met scrupulous security requirements.
Healthcare
Discover how Grundium, a digital microscope manufacturer, uses Ubuntu Pro for Devices to remain compliant.
Industrial IoT
Discover how IMS Evolve used Ubuntu Core to run the cold-chain solutions of large food retailers.
Space computing
Discover how Lonestar Data Holdings harnessed Ubuntu Core to experiment with data storage on the Moon.
Learn more about open source edge computing
Whitepaper: Edge computing use cases
Learn more about edge computing and the benefits it brings. We cover real-world examples of how edge computing is transforming industries as diverse as telecommunications, automotive, industrial and agriculture.
Whitepaper: CTO’s guide to MicroCloud
In this whitepaper, we dive into the challenges around edge computing and set out why the MicroCloud architecture offers businesses an advantage in terms of cost, efficiency and future-proofing.
IoT security with Ubuntu Pro for Devices
Visit our Ubuntu Pro for Devices page to learn more about automated tools for compliance, patching for over 36,000 packages and expanded security maintenance that runs for up to 12 years.
Unlocking edge AI: a collaborative reference architecture with NVIDIA
Check out our blog to discover how NVIDIA and Canonical collaborated to create a reference architecture that simplifies edge AI deployment.