Charmed OpenStack

Enterprise cloud platform engineered for price-performance

Product overview
Charmed OpenStack provides a cost-effective extension Charmed OpenStack is an enterprise cloud platform,
to the hyperscaler infrastructure, empowering designed to run mission-critical workloads. Where telcos,
businesses to optimise their CapEx and OpEx costs in financial institutions, hardware manufacturers, government
multi-cloud environments and to lower the TCO of their institutions and enterprises can host their services
cloud infrastructure. with confidence, and maintain focus on delivering core
business benefits.

Price-performance guaranteed
The highest performance cloud platform at the lowest price. We embed price-performance in the product to decrease
TCO, and thereby expanding the budget for innovation.
Optimal architecture Better price Smart operations
An optimal architecture for cloud Canonical uses a fully transparent Charmed OpenStack is an OpenStack
platform implementation comes pricing structure to enable distribution based on OpenStack
through a careful hardware selection predictable long-term budgeting. Charms. By packaging OpenStack
process and persistent performance Refer to the table below for basic operations code and executing
benchmarking. Canonical constantly service fees: it in a fully automated way,
looks above and beyond to include Charmed OpenStack significantly
the best-of-breed technologies in simplifies OpenStack deployment
Service Price
the reference architecture for and operations thereby offloading
Charmed OpenStack, while not Design and $75,000 operations staff and reducing
putting a pressure on the budget. delivery per engagement OpEx costs.
Commercial $1,500 per
support machine per year

Fully-managed $5,475 per

service machine per year

Deployed, supported, fully-managed Predictable release cadence and

From the initial design to daily operations, Canonical
upgrade path
supports its customers at every stage of their cloud journey.
Every upstream OpenStack version brings new features,
improvements and bug fixes. Canonical recognises the
OpenStack design and delivery value these updates bring and provides support for every
The best way to succeed with OpenStack is to OpenStack version in two weeks from the upstream
engage the experts at the very beginning. Private release. Moreover, each OpenStack version that comes
Cloud Build (PCB) and PCB Plus are fixed-price consulting together with Ubuntu LTS is supported by Canonical for up
packages from Canonical tailored to customer needs, to ten years. In order to benefit from the latest features,
including design workshops and Charmed OpenStack customers can easily upgrade between consecutive
delivery on reference architecture and certified hardware. OpenStack versions in a fully automated way. All of that to
ensure non-stop availability of services and reduce the
operations overhead.

Commercial support for OpenStack

Canonical provides commercial support for
Charmed OpenStack under the Ubuntu
Advantage for Infrastructure (UA-I) subscription.
UA-I includes phone and ticket support, production-grade
SLAs, regulatory compliance and hardening programmes,
and ten years of security updates. All that is needed to run
a production cloud with confidence.

Fully-managed OpenStack
Canonical’s Managed OpenStack is a cloud
operations and maintenance service for Charmed
OpenStack which accelerates time to market for customers
who do not have sufficient knowledge and resources to
operate the cloud by themselves. Managed OpenStack is
the more cost-efficient option for up to 200 machines.
Interoperability across Carrier-grade features
various platforms and extensions
Canonical partners with leading semiconductor companies, • Extendable containers layer with Kubernetes
hardware vendors, network equipment providers and open • Composable infrastructure with NVIDIA DPUs
source communities to ensure interoperability of Charmed • HPC and AI/ML workloads support with NVIDIA vGPU
OpenStack across various platforms and design an optimal • SR-IOV, DPDK, CPU pinning, NUMA, hugepages
architecture for cloud implementation. Supported • Up to 10 years of security updates
platforms include: • Regulatory compliance and hardening
• Total bottom-up automation including upgrades
• CPU: Intel, AMD, ARM, POWER • IaC and CICD integration capabilities
• Hardware: Dell, Lenovo, HPE, Cisco and more • Data durability and cloud-native data protection
• SDN: OVN, OVS, Juniper Contrail, Cisco ACI • Integrated observability stack
• Storage: Ceph, iSCSI, Pure Storage, NetApp, LVM
• Architecture: Hyper-Converged, Converged,
Fully Disaggregated

Who uses OpenStack on Ubuntu?

Contact us

For more information about Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack visit ubuntu.com/openstack or call direct:
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