Secure, minimal containers from your trusted distro
Build enterprise-grade applications on the world's most popular cloud OS. Boost resource efficiency with ultra-small, production-ready containers, or use our open source tooling to create your own.
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Familiar for developers, secured by Ubuntu
Rely on Ubuntu's demonstrated track record for containers that are:
- Secure. Timely updates and patches, building on Ubuntu's security track record.
- Stable. Long-term support with a consistent, predictable lifecycle and support commitment.
- Seamless. Developer-friendly, smooth experience from development to production.
- Small. Ultra-small, resource-efficient, yet robust images with chiselled (distroless) Ubuntu.
Explore our offering
Ubuntu containers are designed for modern software deployments. Our solutions are tailored to diverse needs, from individual developers to large enterprises that need long term supported, secure and compliant containers.
Container Build Service
Have Canonical's expert team custom build secure, minimal and optimised containers for your application. This service is ideal for enterprise that need a trusted partner to create and maintain containers that offer:
- Minimal attack surface, coupled with an optimised and consistent structure
- 12 years of security support
- Compliance with the most stringent security management, auditing and reporting frameworks
Chiselled Ubuntu images
Canonical's variation of “distroless” containers. Chiselled Ubuntu containers take size optimisation to a new level. Developers can keep building with Ubuntu and rely on Chisel to extract an ultra-small, bitwise identical image tailored for production. No more worries about library incompatibilities, just seamless development to deployment.
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