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Ubuntu Pro on VMware Cloud Foundation
Security maintenance, compliance hardening, and fleet management for your VCF stack
Benefit from enterprise-grade assurance, wherever you use Ubuntu, available natively on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF).
What Ubuntu Pro adds to your VCF environment
Ubuntu Pro is Canonical’s comprehensive subscription for open source security and support. It gives platform teams and developers running Ubuntu on VCF the security maintenance, compliance tooling, and fleet management they need to operate Ubuntu at scale.
Available as an add-on from Canonical, teams benefit from up to 15 years of package maintenance, security patching, automated hardening, and centralized control via Landscape. Spend less time managing infrastructure and more time on the work that matters.
Security maintenanceacross your VCF estate
Ubuntu Pro brings security maintenance, compliance tooling, and management capabilities at scale to platform teams running Ubuntu on VCF.
Secure packages running across virtualized workloads
Expanded Security Maintenance (ESM) lengthens support to up to 15 years, and broadens the scope of patching to include thousands of packages and tools from the open source universe, including Python, Rust, Go, Apache Kafka, PostgreSQL, and Redis. All available on Ubuntu’s repositories.
Enable compliance tooling on vSphere
Get CIS and DISA STIG profiles via Ubuntu Security Guide, with FIPS 140-3 certified modules for regulated environments.
Manage and patch Ubuntu across VCF nodes
Use Canonical Landscape for centralized OS management, patching, and policy enforcement from a single console.
Keep workloads running without interruption
Canonical Livepatch applies high and critical kernel security patches to Ubuntu automatically, without reboots, minimizing downtime across your virtualized estate.
Ubuntu Pro in numbers
Up to 15 years
of patching and maintenance
Ubuntu Pro increases the period of support for the OS from 5 years to up to 15 years.
Thousands
of open source packages covered
Ubuntu Pro brings maintenance and updates for tens of thousands of packages from the wider open source ecosystem.
Zero downtime
for critical kernel CVEs
Canonical Livepatch minimizes downtime by tackling critical and high kernel CVEs at runtime.
Attaches seamlessly to your Ubuntu image in VCF
Canonical and Broadcom partner directly to ensure Ubuntu Pro runs seamlessly on VMware Cloud Foundation.
Choose how to attach your token, based on your setup:
In the Ubuntu command line, you can run:
sudo pro attach [YOUR_TOKEN]
For bulk enrollment, you can attach your token via cloud-init in the VCF dashboard.
For more details on where to find your token, visit our dedicated documentation.
Get Ubuntu Pro today
30-day trial for enterprises. Always free for personal use.