Canonical just released their new free staff Ubuntu Pro Subscriptions for up to five machines, making it available as a public beta for data centers and workstations, and providing a free tier for personal and small-scale commercial use. UbuntuPro includes tools for compliance management in regulated and audited environments, and Ubuntu Pro users can access FIPS 140-2 certified cryptographic packages required by all federal agencies.
Ubuntu Pro is available for any Ubuntu LTS 16.04 LTS and higher and you can sign up for a free personal Ubuntu Pro subscription for up to five computers by following the link below. Paid Ubuntu Pro plans start at $25 per year for workstations or $500 per year for servers, and Canonical has made a free 30-day trial of Ubuntu Pro available to new enterprise customers.
“Ubuntu Pro extends security coverage for critical, high and medium Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) to thousands of applications and toolchains including Ansible, Apache Tomcat, Apache Zookeeper, Docker, Drupal, Nagios, Node.js, phpMyAdmin, Puppet, PowerDNS , Python 2, Redis, Rust, WordPress, ROS and more. “
Ubuntu Pro Subscriptions
– That Standard Ubuntu Pro subscription covers the full set of security updates for all packages in Ubuntu. Canonical’s Ubuntu Advantage for Infrastructure subscription is now rebranded to Ubuntu Pro (Infra only) with no price or scope changes.
– A Subscription to Ubuntu Pro (Infra only). covers the base operating system and private cloud components required for large-scale bare-metal deployments, but excludes the new broader application coverage. It is useful for organizations building private clouds that use other guest operating systems for applications.
“Since we first launched Ubuntu LTS with five years of free security coverage for the core operating system, our enterprise customers have asked us to cover more and more of the broader open source landscape under private commercial agreements. Today, we’re excited to offer the benefits of all that work for free to anyone in the world with a free personal Ubuntu Pro subscription.” said Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical.
“For the past decade, Google has partnered with Canonical to encourage the adoption of open source software.”said Derry Cheng, product manager for Compute Engine. “By offering Ubuntu Pro on Google Compute Engine, together we help customers improve security and compliance for their production workloads.”
For more information about the new Ubuntu Pro subscriptions, visit the official website by following the link below.
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