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Build enterprise-grade applications on your preferred platform – cloud, on-premises, or hybrid. Improve your resource efficiency with ultra-small, OCI-compliant, production-ready containers, supported by Canonical, or use our open source tooling to create your own.
Maintained and compliant
Support for any open source software
Rely on Ubuntu's demonstrated track record for containers that are:
Scanning container images for vulnerabilities is now widespread, but fixing them requires dedicated skills and infrastructure. Trusted provenance is key.
Canonical's OCI images provide ready-to-use images, free of high and critical CVEs. Images are built on the same trusted infrastructure in Ubuntu, and updated automatically when apps or dependencies are fixed.
Up to 15 years of security updates and patching from Canonical
Focus on vulnerability remediation
Fixes for high and critical CVEs
Minimal attack surface, coupled with an optimized and consistent structure
Compatible with all major architectures
Use the stability and security of Ubuntu as the foundation for your containers. Ubuntu-base images provide a robust and trusted starting point for building and deploying your containers, ensuring compatibility, performance, and long-term support. Experience Ubuntu's consistent performance across cloud, desktop, and server – and bring that same reliability to your containers. What’s more, FIPS-enabled containers can be deployed by using Ubuntu Pro, Canonical’s comprehensive subscription for open source security, support, and compliance.
Save time and resources with pre-configured applications. Focus on your core business while we handle the heavy lifting.
Focus on your code, not containers. We automate the entire process, from dependency management to image building, letting you deploy your applications quickly and easily.
Create a complete development environment for web apps (Django, Flask), APIs (FastAPI), or backend services (Go, Spring) in one command.
Need to containerize a specific version of an open source tool?
We provide a Container Build Service that creates custom containerization for all kinds of open source software, allowing you to readily deploy them into your existing environment.
Modernizing legacy applications
Minimal container, includes essentials only
Supported on any certified Kubernetes distribution
Rockcraft and Chisel provide the tools and flexibility to build Ubuntu-based containers that perfectly align with your application's requirements. Canonical's variation of “distroless” containers, called chiseled Ubuntu containers, take size optimization to a new level.
Developers can keep building with Ubuntu and rely on ultra-small, bitwise identical images tailored for production.
No more worries about library incompatibilities, just seamless development to deployment.
“There has always been a need for smaller and tighter images. Developers remind us, as a base image provider, of that on a regular basis. Chiseled images leapfrog over approaches we've looked at in the past. We love the idea and implementation of chiseled images and Canonical as a partner. When technical leaders at Canonical shared the first demos of chiseled images with us, we immediately wanted to be a launch partner, and we're thrilled that we're shipping Ubuntu chiseled images for .NET as part of the GA release.”
Richard Lander .NET Product Manager Microsoft
Dive deeper into the world of containers with Ubuntu on our blog.
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