Canonical's Landscape and Ubuntu Clouds

Landscape is an easy-to-use systems management and monitoring service that enables you to deploy, manage and monitor Ubuntu instances in the cloud. Landscape is the only management solution that manages both your cloud and physical systems in one console giving you control over your entire computing environment. The Landscape service provides powerful, automated systems administration capabilities such as management, monitoring and provisioning of packages across multiple machines, lowering your per-systems cost of management and administration.

Manage and monitor your cloud systems with Landscape

Landscape simplifies the complex task of monitoring and administrating multiple servers by enabling IT administrators to manage multiple machines through a single web-based interface. Controlling and managing your systems is greatly simplified because Landscape lets you create, start, stop, deploy and decommission cloud instances from a simple GUI console. In addition, Landscape securely enables updates and provisioning of packages, system monitoring, user control, process management, inventory control and support enhancement tools that can help increase your productivity immediately.

Cloud and physical machine management

Not all your systems are cloud-based so your management tool should also work with your physical systems. Landscape gives you insight in to your entire compute environment providing you with package and status information on your cloud and physical machines in a single console.

Customise your cloud

Once you deploy an image, you can customise it using Landscape's custom-script feature. Simply write a script to execute your common configuration tasks and run it within Landscape. Once written, you can save your scripts and execute them at any time to automate your routine, error-prone tasks.

Amazon EC2 and private clouds

Landscape is designed to simplify the management of clouds on Amazon EC2 and private clouds based on Eucalyptus by letting you create, start, stop, deploy and decommission cloud instances from a simple GUI console. Landscape makes this easy by storing your Amazon credentials, saving you time and helping you access your instances quickly.

Easily manage complex environments

Landscape enables you to group similar systems so you can manage and apply package updates to all systems in a group with a single click. This helps you to manage thousands of systems without having to hire more resources. And, because Landscape operates in near-real time, you will see your changes being applied so you won't have to waste time logging back in to see if a transaction has been started.

Compliance and auditing

You need to ensure that all your systems are configured in the same way to ensure the stability of your applications. With Landscape, you can view the hardware, package and process profiles of each machine in your environment.

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