Ubuntu documentation

The docs directory for all Ubuntu operating systems and products.

Our products

  • MAAS

    MAAS 

    Create a bare-metal cloud with Metal as a Service for IPAM and provisioning

  • Juju

    Juju 

    Model-driven multi-cloud operations for applications with big data, k8s and OpenStack solutions

  • Snapcraft

    Snapcraft 

    A single secure package and auto-update system for Linux distributions

  • LXD

    LXD 

    Fast, dense, and secure container and VM management at any scale

  • Landscape

    Landscape 

    Systems management for Ubuntu - updates, package management, repositories, security

  • Snapcraft Proxy

    Snap Store Proxy 

    The Snap Store Proxy provides an on-premise edge proxy to the Snap Store for your devices

  • Mir

    Mir 

    Ultra-fast and light Wayland compositor for secure device display management

  • Multipass

    Multipass 

    Ubuntu virtual machines on demand for Linux, MacOS and Windows

  • cloud-init

    Cloud-init 

    Apply user data to your instances automatically

  • dqlite

    Dqlite 

    Dqlite is a fast, embedded, persistent SQL database with Raft consensus that is perfect for fault-tolerant IoT and Edge devices.

  • MicroK8s

    MicroK8s 

    The smallest, simplest, pure production K8s. For clusters, laptops, IoT and Edge, on Intel and ARM

  • Charmed Kubernetes

    Charmed Kubernetes 

    Pure Kubernetes tested across the widest range of clouds with modern metrics and monitoring

  • Netplan

    Netplan 

    Network abstraction for Linux to simplify and standardise complex network configuration

  • Charmed OpenStack

    Charmed OpenStack 

    Enterprise private cloud engineered for the best price-performance.

  • MicroStack

    MicroStack 

    Multi-node OpenStack for the edge, micro clouds and developers.

  • Anbox Cloud

    Anbox Cloud 

    Enables running Android apps on any cloud platform at scale

The Ubuntu OS

  • Desktop

    Desktop

    The world’s most popular Linux for desktop computing.

  • Server

    Server

    Configure a simple file server or build a fifty thousand-node cloud, learn how with the server docs.

  • Core

    Core

    Documentation for the new, transactionally updated Ubuntu for clouds and devices.

  • Public cloud

    Public Cloud

    Secure and customised Ubuntu images for all the major cloud providers.

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