Canonical expands application security coverage

Canonical is presenting a public beta of Ubuntu Pro, furnishing Ubuntu Linux buyers expanded stability servicing and compliance for application ranging from the Node.js runtime to Python 2 and Rust.

Security protection will be expanded for important, large, and medium frequent vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) to hundreds of programs and toolchains, which includes Ansible, Apache Tomcat, Apache Zookeeper, Docker, Drupal, Node.js, Puppet, Python 2, Rust, and others. A free of charge 30-day demo is accessible for business buyers. Ubuntu Professional is made available for details centers and workstations, with a no cost tier presented for personalized and small-scale use.

The company explained that given that it introduced Ubuntu LTS with 5 many years of no cost stability for the main running program, enterprise prospects have requested it to address more of the open up source landscape under private commercial agreements. These rewards are now getting provided totally free of cost to everyone with a no cost personalized Ubuntu Pro membership. Ubuntu Pro also can be put together with 24/7 company-quality coverage for the Ubuntu operating procedure. Infrastructure these types of as Kubernetes and OpenStack also can be included.

Preliminary application support is composed of more than 30 upstream purposes, together with Kafka, Kubeflow, OpenJDK, PostgreSQL, and Vault. In the security vein, Ubuntu Pro buyers can obtain FIPS 140-2 accredited cryptographic packages, essential for all federal govt organizations and organizations functioning underneath compliance regimes this sort of as FedRAMP and HIPAA.

Ubuntu Professional is accessible for each individual Ubuntu prolonged-time period support release from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. The standard Ubuntu Pro membership covers protection updates for all packages in Ubuntu. Also, Canonical’s Ubuntu Benefit for Infrastructure subscription has been rebranded to Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only) with no adjustments in price tag or scope. The Infra-Only membership addresses the foundation running program and personal cloud factors desired for substantial-scale, bare-metallic deployments whilst excluding broader application protection.

Ubuntu Pro compensated programs are priced at $25 for each calendar year for a workstation or $500 for each year for a server. On community clouds, Ubuntu Professional expenses around 3.5% of the common underlying compute cost.