Documentation directory

The documentation directory for all Ubuntu operating systems and products.

	IoT/Edge	Embedded	Workstation	Containers	Data centre	Cloud
Platform		Real-time Ubuntu	Ubuntu Desktop	LXD	Canonical Kubeflow	Anbox Cloud
		Robotics	Ubuntu Kernel	Multipass	Canonical Kubernetes	MicroCloud
		Ubuntu Core	Ubuntu Server	Ubuntu WSL	Canonical OpenStack	Public Cloud
			Ubuntu for developers		MicroK8s	Ubuntu on AWS
Management	Pebble	Snap	Landscape	Data Science Stack	JAAS
			Ubuntu Pro		Juju
					Launchpad
					MAAS
Stores		Snap Store				Charmhub
		Snap Store Proxy
Apps		Matter on Ubuntu	ADSys	dqlite	Ceph	authd
		Mir	Netplan		Charmed MLflow	Charmed Data
					MicroCeph	cloud-init
					MicroOVN
					MicroStack
Tools		Snapcraft	Chisel	Rockcraft	Charmcraft

Our products

MAAS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ubuntu virtual machines on demand for Linux, MacOS and Windows
Cloud-init

Apply user data to your instances automatically
Dqlite

Dqlite is a fast, embedded, persistent SQL database with Raft consensus that is perfect for fault-tolerant IoT and Edge devices.
MicroK8s

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

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

Network abstraction for Linux to simplify and standardise complex network configuration
Charmed OpenStack

Enterprise private cloud engineered for the best price-performance.
MicroStack

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

Enables running Android apps on any cloud platform at scale
Charmed Kubeflow

End-to-end, production-ready MLOps platform on top of cloud native technologies
Charmed MLflow

Charmed MLflow is a platform for managing the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle.
Data Science Stack

Ready-to-run environment for machine learning and data science, built on MicroK8s, JupyterLab and MLflow.
Rockcraft

Rockcraft is a tool to create rocks – a new generation of secure, stable and OCI-compliant container images.
Chisel

A CLI tool for creating minimal Ubuntu filesystems.

The Ubuntu OS

Desktop

The world's most popular Linux for desktop computing.
Server

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

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

This documentation provides guidance for using the Ubuntu Desktop Linux distribution as a development platform.
Public Cloud

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

Enterprise-grade real-time kernel for end-to-end security and reliability in time-bound workloads.

Creating documentation

Style guide ›

A guide to the language and style conventions used for Canonical documentation projects.