The Ubuntu Advantage (UA) Client provides users with a simple mechanism to view, enable, and disable offerings from Canonical on their system. The following entitlements are supported:
- Common Criteria EAL2 Certification Tooling
- CIS Benchmark Audit Tooling
- Ubuntu Security Guide (USG) Tooling
- Ubuntu Extended Security Maintenance (ESM)
- Robot Operating System (ROS) Extended Security Maintenance
- FIPS 140-2 Certified Modules
- FIPS 140-2 Non-Certified Module Updates
- Livepatch Service
The client comes pre-installed on all Ubuntu systems in the debian ubuntu-advantage-tools package.
Additionally, there are 3 PPAs with different release channels of the Ubuntu Advantage Client:
- Stable: This contains stable builds only which have been verified for release into Ubuntu stable releases or Ubuntu PRO images.
- add with
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ua-client/stable
- add with
- Staging: This contains builds under validation for release to stable Ubuntu releases and images
- add with
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ua-client/staging
- add with
- Daily: This PPA is updated every day with the latest changes.
- add with
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ua-client/daily
- add with
Users can manually run the ua command to learn more or view the manpage.
- Getting started with UA
- Create a FIPS compliant Ubuntu Docker image
- Fixing vulnerabilities by CVE or USN using
ua fix
- 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
- 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?
See CONTRIBUTING.md