admin Canonical is providing a public beta of Ubuntu Professional, offering Ubuntu Linux customers expanded safety upkeep and compliance for software program starting from the Node.js runtime to Python 2 and Rust.
Safety protection might be expanded for crucial, excessive, and medium widespread vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) to hundreds of purposes and toolchains, together with Ansible, Apache Tomcat, Apache Zookeeper, Docker, Drupal, Node.js, Puppet, Python 2, Rust, and others. A free 30-day trial is accessible for enterprise clients. Ubuntu Professional is obtainable for information facilities and workstations, with a free tier supplied for private and small-scale use.
The corporate stated that because it launched Ubuntu LTS with 5 years of free safety for the principle working system, enterprise clients have requested it to cowl extra of the open supply panorama below non-public industrial agreements. These advantages are actually being supplied freed from cost to anybody with a free private Ubuntu Professional subscription. Ubuntu Professional additionally may be mixed with 24/7 enterprise-grade protection for the Ubuntu working system. Infrastructure resembling Kubernetes and OpenStack additionally may be coated.
Preliminary utility assist consists of greater than 30 upstream purposes, together with Kafka, Kubeflow, OpenJDK, PostgreSQL, and Vault. Within the safety vein, Ubuntu Professional customers can entry FIPS 140-2 licensed cryptographic packages, mandatory for all federal authorities businesses and organizations working below compliance regimes resembling FedRAMP and HIPAA.
Ubuntu Professional is accessible for each Ubuntu long-term assist launch from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. The usual Ubuntu Professional subscription covers safety updates for all packages in Ubuntu. Additionally, Canonical’s Ubuntu Benefit for Infrastructure subscription has been rebranded to Ubuntu Professional (Infra-only) with no modifications in worth or scope. The Infra-Solely subscription covers the bottom working sytem and personal cloud elements wanted for large-scale, bare-metal deployments whereas excluding broader utility protection.
Ubuntu Professional paid plans are priced at $25 per 12 months for a workstation or $500 per 12 months for a server. On public clouds, Ubunto Professional prices roughly 3.5% of the common underlying compute value.
