Landscape features
Landscape allows you to manage thousands of Ubuntu machines as easily as one, making it far more cost-effective to support large and growing networks of desktops, servers and cloud instances.
Making software management simple
- Manage machines in bulk
- Tag machines to associate them with different profiles
- Transparent cross-platform support for x86 and ARM binaries
- Specify update policies and maintenance windows, during which software updates can be performed
- Ensure managed devices are up-to-date with the latest security fixes
- Hold a specific software package at a designated release, to prevent accidental breakage. Holds can be set using Landscape or the shell tools; both are recognised operationally
- Support a validation/integration workflow to ensure that updates don’t break mission-critical applications
- Make sure that only applications and updates vetted by your local IS team are installed
- Install, remove and update packages to managed devices
- Rollback software to a previously installed version, if a problem is discovered
- Provide custom repositories to internally provision applications
Watch the software management video on the working with Landscape page ›
Deployment – on the metal or in the cloud
- Provision a new starter’s desktop from standard templates
- Deploy a new server remotely, from bare metal
- Rapidly deploy new cloud nodes into your private cloud infrastructure
- Coordinate deployment at multiple sites, without affecting the WAN’s performance
- Roll out an entire private cloud directly at server unboxing
- Limit the number of cloud instances your administrators can purchase
Watch the bare metal provisioning video on the Working with Landscape page ›
Monitoring
- Helping you identify and troubleshoot user issues
- Historical data archive of a system’s critical variables
- Ready access to a list of all processes running on a system (rogue processes can be killed remotely)
- A graphical module that makes it easy to plot trends of temperature, disk and memory usage, system load or custom metrics
- Scriptable, custom trend information based on the parameters that matter to you
Watch the asset management video on the working with Landscape page ›
Inventory management
- Access full package information for all registered machines, including security notices applicable to the selected device.
- Enjoy rapid access to a system’s hardware properties to track hardware-specific issues
OpenStack
Build and manage your cloud in minutes
- Get an OpenStack up and running in a matter of minutes
- Keeps an inventory of your resources to recommend the best configuration options
- A growing list of options for hypervisor, networking, storage, and other components
- See the status of all cloud resources at once, with alerts for any disruptions
- Scale out with ease, as your cloud workloads grow
- Uses all of Canonical’s proven cloud building and management tools
- Manage your cloud from the same system as all other Ubuntu machines
- Free for up to 10 machines
Try the The Canonical Distribution of Ubuntu OpenStack now, free for the first ten machines ›