Landscape

Systems management and patching automation for Ubuntu

Also known as
landscape

What is Landscape?

Landscape automates security patching, auditing, access management and compliance tasks across Ubuntu infrastructure. Available as SaaS, managed service, or self-hosted deployment.

Independently observed

Landscape pricing

Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.

Pricing as of verify at live pricing ↗Independently observed
Subscription

Available with Ubuntu Pro subscription. Pricing details require contacting sales.

Landscape SaaS

-

Multi-tenant cloud service with early access to new features, managed by Canonical

  • Early access to new features
  • Software and hardware inventory
  • Compliance and reporting
  • Security and hardening

Managed Landscape

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Single-tenant deployment, managed and upgraded by Canonical

  • Managed by Canonical
  • Canonical upgrades on your schedule
  • Repository management
  • Bring your own SSO and IAM
  • Software and hardware inventory
  • Compliance and reporting
  • Security and hardening

Self-hosted Landscape

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Deploy on any cloud, on-premises, or airgapped environment

  • Works without internet
  • Repository management
  • Bring your own SSO and IAM
  • Software and hardware inventory
  • Compliance and reporting
  • Security and hardening

What Landscape does

The capabilities that matter for configuration management tools, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.

Core
Architecture
Agent-based
Push / pull model
Push
Config language
-
Deployment
Masterless mode
-
Hosting
Cloud + self-hosted
Correctness
Idempotent
-
Model
Desired-state declarative
-
Ecosystem
Content registry
Platform
Windows support
Scope
Cloud provisioning
-
Governance
Policy / compliance
Commercial
Enterprise edition
Licensing
Open-source core
-
Independently observed

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Platforms
  • CLI
  • Web
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS
  • Hybrid
  • On-premise
  • Air-gapped
  • Self-hosted

Landscape alternatives

Other configuration management tools we track, ranked by the same independent score.

Independent · unbought · dated

The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence

Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Landscape, not the verdict.

Balanced composite 39 / 100
low · 32%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Capabilities5816.00925.0
Security Posture4013.00520.0
Price Level06.000.0-
Reliability08.000.0-
Integrations08.000.0-
Pricing Transparency08.000.0

Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.

All data & sourcesshow ↓

Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.

Features

AttributeValueEvidence
Capabilities{"model":"push","hosting":"both","architecture":"agent","windows_support":false,"content_registry":true,"policy_compliance":true,"enterprise_edition":true}mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Modelcommercialmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
Price levelunknownmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
TransparentNomediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Security

AttributeValueEvidence
FedrampYeshighsource · 2026-08-03 · 75%
Iso27001Yeshighsource · 2026-08-03 · 75%
PciYeshighsource · 2026-08-03 · 75%