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Canonical is a global leader in OpenStack support, offering enterprise full-stack support subscription at the best server/annum cost.
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Use OpenStack with confidence with Ubuntu Pro + Support One package, multiple benefits. Subscribe to Ubuntu Pro and benefit from expanded security, certified compliance and 24/7 phone/ticket support. With enterprise support from Canonical
OpenStack is 100% open source and benefits from community support and collaboration. However, when it comes to implementing a mission-critical infrastructure, this alone may not be sufficient.
Here are some common challenges organisations usually face when using OpenStack in production:
Canonical addresses all those challenges, providing enterprise OpenStack support subscription for OpenStack clouds deployed on Ubuntu.
Ubuntu Pro is Canonical's subscription for enterprise support, security and compliance, covering all aspects of open infrastructure. With Ubuntu Pro, you can focus on expanding the benefits of OpenStack, while we make sure your cloud receives security patches, bug fixes and technical support.
$1,500 ‐ $3,400 per host per year for the most comprehensive level of support. A fully transparent pricing model enables predictable budgeting. Everything is clear from day-0.
Your cloud, our expertise. Included in the Ubuntu Pro pricing is phone and ticket support for OpenStack. Canonical uses the follow-the-sun support model to ensure 24/7 coverage so that your issues are resolved quickly.
We guarantee 1 hour response time for the most critical issues. Our expertise, based on data from hundreds of clouds, underpins your SLA.
As the publisher of Ubuntu, we uniquely support the full stack. Complex issues in cloud infrastructure require analysis and fixes all the way down to the kernel. With us, there are no loose ends.
While OpenStack is the de facto standard for implementing open source cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes is the de facto standard for container coordination. With Ubuntu Pro, you can run both on the same hardware, fully supported, at no extra costs.
Not every organisation is willing or able to upgrade their cloud on a regular basis. With Canonical, you stay secure for up to 10 years under the Expanded Security Maintenance (ESM) programme with no need of more frequent upgrades.
Cloud hardening ensures the highest level of security in the telecom and financial sectors. Charmed OpenStack provides cloud hardening programmes according to common benchmarks such as CIS.
Local regulatory compliance programmes are included in the service pricing. Charmed OpenStack is GDPR, CSEC and HIPAA compliant.
Kernel Livepatch allows you to update the kernels of your cloud nodes without rebooting them. This ensures better availability of your services and minimises the operations overhead.
Canonical support often connects us directly with the engineering team. Being able to consult with people who are so familiar with Ceph’s internals has been highly valuable for resolving the thornier issues
While Ubuntu is the most popular operating system for OpenStack implementation according to the OpenStack User Survey 2021, using the right tools to deploy and operate it is a key to achieving success. Charmed OpenStack is an enterprise OpenStack distribution designed to tame its complexity by providing composition and automation.
Charmed OpenStack is built from OpenStack Charms, which are OpenStack operations software packages. Charms can be composed together in advanced application topologies and reused across various organisations, industries, scenarios and clouds.
With Charmed OpenStack, you are not left alone on day-2. OpenStack Charms provide full automation around common day-2 maintenance tasks, including daily operations, scale-out capabilities and integrations.
As OpenStack evolves, your private cloud can be upgraded to the latest version to benefit from new features and software updates. We provide fully automated OpenStack upgrades with minimal downtime.
Charmed OpenStack is your fastest path to a modern telco cloud. We provide all the necessary performance extensions to run mission-critical network services as required in 5G network use cases.
Hardware specifications, software-defined networking (SDN) controllers, storage platforms. We provide you with the flexibility to integrate your desired functionality. We help you choose what fits your requirements to provide the best value for your money.
Included in Charmed OpenStack is the observability stack, providing alerting, capacity planning and continuous service checks to ensure your cloud is healthy and stays that way.
We provide OpenStack consulting services at a fixed price. All costs are known since the early beginnings of the project. This makes service pricing transparent and enables predictable budgeting.
In addition to OpenStack support, we also provide fully managed services. Offload the work from your operations team and accelerate your time-to-market with Canonical's Managed OpenStack.
On request, we train your personnel to get them up to speed with your new private cloud. We provide comprehensive training courses that cover OpenStack architecture, implementation and operations.
Together, we design the cloud according to your needs. We guide you through the hardware specification process to maximise price-performance and tailor cloud architecture to meet your capacity, workload, security, regulatory and integration requirements.
Once the design step is completed, we translate all design decisions into a model that is reusable across various environments. Modelling guarantees repeatable deployments and enables integration with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and continuous integration continuous delivery (CICD) systems.
We deploy the cloud for you on your premises or in one of our partners’ data centres. We validate it post-deployment and benchmark its performance. At the end, we provide you with the deployment guide which outlines all the steps required to re-deploy the cloud if needed.
After day-1, day-2 comes in. The cloud can either be managed by you or by our team of cloud experts. In both cases, we provide 24/7 enterprise-grade support, including security updates, phone and ticket support, local regulatory compliance programmes, and the like.
Some customers choose to extend their support with fully managed service. On request, we transfer control over your cloud back to your organisation. We train your personnel, make sure you are able to operate the cloud yourself moving forward and perform a formal handover process. We continue providing commercial support to make sure your cloud receives security updates and you receive help if needed.
Choose the OpenStack product you are interested in purchasing support for:
Canonical fully supports Charmed OpenStack clouds deployed through the Private Cloud Build consulting engagement. Our team of cloud experts designs the cloud according to Canonical’s best practices, builds it for you and operates it if needed.
Canonical fully supports OpenStack clouds deployed with MicroStack. Simply get any Ubuntu Pro subscription with Support, attach it to all nodes in your cluster and benefit from phone and ticket support.
Get in touch with Canonical and share your use case with us. If you have already deployed OpenStack or are interested in receiving commercial support for other deployment tools or on other platforms, we are happy to explore those options together with you.
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