Canonical’s offerings on IBM Cloud

Canonical and the Ubuntu community work together with IBM to ensure that Ubuntu works seamlessly across IBM platforms, including IBM Z and LinuxONE, IBM Power Systems and the IBM Cloud.

Canonical provides optimized Ubuntu LTS images with a custom kernel, minimal size, livepatch and support.

These images are available on IBM Cloud for both the IBM VPC infrastructure and the IBM Classic infrastructure.

IBM VPC vs IBM Classic infrastructures

IBM Cloud offers two types of infrastructures: IBM VPC infrastructure and IBM Classic infrastructure (Legacy). For new users, IBM only offers the VPC infrastructure. However, some long term users may still have access to the legacy Classic infrastructure.

IBM VPC offers multiple advantages over the legacy infrastructure such as better performance, scalability, and ease of use.