The Ubuntu Advantage (UA) Client is the offical tool to enable Canonical offerings on your system.
UA provides support to view, enable, and disable the following Canonical services:
- Common Criteria EAL2 Certification Tooling
- CIS Benchmark Audit Tooling
- Ubuntu Security Guide (USG) Tooling
- Ubuntu Expanded Security Maintenance (ESM)
- Robot Operating System (ROS) Expanded Security Maintenance
- FIPS 140-2 Certified Modules (and optional non-certified patches)
- Livepatch Service
If you need any of those services for your machine, UA is the right tool for you.
Furthermore, UA is already installed on every Ubuntu system. Try it out by running ua help!
- Getting started with UA
- Create a FIPS compliant Ubuntu Docker image
- Fixing vulnerabilities by CVE or USN using
ua fix - Create a Custom Ubuntu Pro Cloud Image with FIPS Updates
- How to get an UA token and attach to a subscription
- How to Configure Proxies
- How to Enable Ubuntu Advantage Services in a Dockerfile
- How to Create a custom Golden Image based on Ubuntu Pro
- How to Manually update MOTD and APT messages
- How to enable CIS
- How to enable CC EAL
- How to enable ESM Infra
- How to enable FIPS
- How to enable Livepatch
- How to configure a timer job
- How to attach with a configuration file
- How to collect UA logs
- How to Simulate attach operation
- How to run ua fix in dry-run mode
- Ubuntu Release and Architecture Support Matrix
- UA Network Requirements
- PPAs with different versions of
ua
- What is the daemon for? (And how to disable it)
- What is Ubuntu PRO?
- What is the ubuntu-advantage-pro package?
- What are the timer jobs?
- What are the UA related MOTD messages?
- What are the UA related APT messages?
- How to interpret the security-status command
- Why Trusty (14.04) is no longer supported
UA is a member of the Ubuntu family. It’s an open source project that warmly welcomes community projects, contributions, suggestions, fixes and constructive feedback.