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Key product assets
Visit Canonical OpenStack home page to learn more about the product and the value it brings to your organization. Review its underlying architecture, use cases, customer success stories, commercial services, and more.
Download Canonical OpenStack datasheet and to get the most comprehensive summary of the product in the form of a one-pager. Quickly navigate through all the available features and compare various consulting and support plans.
Designing cloud environments is non-trivial. This is why the best recipe for a successful deployment is to follow a proven design guide. The reference architecture for Canonical OpenStack distills our expert knowledge gained through more than a decade of experience in the OpenStack domain.
Where to get started?
Try OpenStack on Ubuntu in a few simple steps. Starting with a simple, single-node installation, get your first installation up and running in less than an hour.
Get familiar with OpenStack through a series of tutorials for beginners. Starting from some very basic concepts, learn how to design, deploy, and use OpenStack in production environments.
Explore the most comprehensive set of how-to guides and technical information about the product. Canonical OpenStack documentation serves as your day-to-day reference when operating Canonical OpenStack for your end users.
Additional OpenStack resources
Continue reading for additional OpenStack resources, including case studies, solution briefs, whitepapers, videos, conference talks, webinars, and blog posts. To help you understand Canonical OpenStack better, we have put together this collection of content in one place.
“We’re already seeing a transformation in the services we provide to citizens. From an operational perspective, we’re seeing that it is possible to bring cost-efficiency to a multi-petabyte environment.”
SMD Jeelani
Director (Operations)
UIDAI
“In the last year, we’ve moved the entire mobile base for EE onto this infrastructure. So if you’re on EE, you’re on Canonical.”
Gary Roberts
Director, Network Cloud
BT Group
“We recently reassessed our cloud strategy, and one of the parameters was cost-efficiency. We observed that OpenStack is helping us to achieve two-to-three times more cost-efficiency than using public clouds, and the forecast is that efficiency will grow as the cloud grows.”
Cléber Alexandre Agazzi
Head of Infrastructure & IT Operations
Sicredi
Solution briefs
Canonical Infrastructure for the public sector
In an era of heightened geopolitical uncertainty, digital sovereignty takes centre stage. As governments and their institutions increasingly recognize the importance of safeguarding their data, sovereign cloud solutions have emerged in response to security and compliance challenges.
From VMware to OpenStack
This paper explores the benefits of moving from VMware to one of its open source alternatives: OpenStack. By looking at the similarities and differences of both platforms, we demonstrate how organizations can perform a successful migration while achieving feature parity.
Cloud Pricing Report
In order to better understand cloud pricing concepts and their impact on cloud infrastructure choices, Canonical ran a community survey to collect responses from hundreds of cloud users. This, along with price comparisons from leading cloud providers and cost analyses from sample cloud applications, resulted in a report.
OpenStack E-book for Beginners
OpenStack adoption has always been a challenge. Hence we wrote this e-book to help you understand OpenStack in a very simple way and at the same time understand the newest upstream project “Sunbeam”, which makes OpenStack installation even easier.
Why OpenStack is the Best Solution for Your Cloud Strategy
Operating in the cloud has become the norm in today's business world. However, depending solely on public clouds can introduce several challenges such as increased costs, privacy issues, and performance limitations.
Infra Masters with Canonical
Whether you’re looking to migrate from proprietary solutions (like VMware), repatriate your workloads, or modernize your infrastructure with a cloud-native approach, Canonical’s open source infrastructure solutions give you efficiency and choice.
OpenStack public clouds: 7 reasons to become a local cloud service provider
Although the public cloud market is mostly dominated by hyperscalers, using cloud services from AWS, Azure or Google in some parts of the world is challenging due to local regulations, digital sovereignty concerns and latency issues.
47% of OpenStack clouds run on Ubuntu - this is why
According to the OpenStack User Survey 2023, Ubuntu Server continues to be the most popular operating system for OpenStack deployments, powering 47% of all environments. Ubuntu is fully open-source, runs with no friction on a variety of hardware and silicon, and can be used free of charge.
Own your data; leveraging OpenStack and Sunbeam to deploy a sovereign AI cloud
Building an enterprise-class platform for your AI workloads should not require enterprise-sized tools, teams, or budgets. OpenStack, Kubernetes, and Kubeflow provide a high quality, open source solution for orchestrating simple, complex, and hybrid AI workloads on top of virtual machines, containers, and bare metal machines.
AI on Private Cloud: why is it relevant in the hyperscalers era?
As organizations increasingly look to take advantage of AI technologies, there are several critical considerations that they must contend with, including intellectual property, data security and costs related to computing infrastructure. Private cloud solutions are ideally suited to solving these challenges.
What is OpenStack and why does it matter?
OpenStack is the world’s most popular open source cloud platform and its adoption continues to grow exponentially every year. It serves as an extension or a reasonable alternative to hyperscalers, effectively addressing cloud cost optimization concerns.
OpenStack vs Kubernetes. Which one to pick? That is the question.
Kubernetes and OpenStack are well-established open-source projects and essential infrastructure components for building modern cloud environments. They bring tangible benefits to organizations of any type and size, including competitive economics, no vendor lock-in and fast paced innovation.
Join Canonical at the first-ever African OpenInfra Days
For the second time, and in less than one month, Canonical is coming to East Africa! Three weeks ago, we had the first-ever UbuCon Africa, which was co-located with DjangoCon Africa 2025, and...
OpenStack PoC? No problem!
Setting up a proof of concept (PoC) environment is often one of the first steps in any IT project. It helps organizations to get to grips with the technology, validate the idea, and identify...
The Linux Foundation and OpenStack – a new chapter for cloud-native infrastructure
Effective July 23rd, 2025 the Open Infrastructure Foundation (OIF) has officially joined one of the world’s largest and most influential open source communities: the Linux Foundation. This...
OpenStack with Sunbeam for medium-scale cloud infrastructure
The rapid growth in OpenStack installation and orchestration tools that we have seen in recent years has effectively established OpenStack as the world’s leading open source cloud...
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