Canonical Landscape vs Open Computer Orchestration

Canonical Landscape manages and monitors Ubuntu deployments, including desktops, servers, cloud instances and IoT devices. It can install, update and remove software, apply automated update and security-patch policies, and configure users and groups. For monitoring, it can alert on updates, chart temperature, disk, memory and system-load trends, show running processes and collect custom metrics. It also supports patch-compliance reporting, role-based access control, audit logging, APT repository mirroring and custom package management. Landscape can run as multi-tenant SaaS, as a Canonical-managed single-tenant service, or self-hosted on cloud or on-premises infrastructure, including air-gapped environments. One instance can manage up to 40,000 machines, with larger deployments possible. A scriptable API supports customization and integrations with configuration-management, monitoring and ticketing systems. Self-hosted Landscape and SaaS included with Ubuntu Pro are listed at free. Managed options cost $6,861 a year on supported public-cloud or virtualization environments, or $9,470 a year on bare metal, billed per physical machine. Ubuntu Pro offers a 30-day enterprise trial.

Open Computer Orchestration (OCO) centrally manages Linux, macOS and Windows computers, as well as Android and iOS devices, through a web interface. It provides inventory, software deployment and patch management, policies, installed-software lists, and fine-grained roles and permissions. For software jobs, it records exit codes and command output. OCO can automate operating-system installation and generate custom reports. Its JSON-RPC API supports customization and workflow automation, while extensions cover scheduled Wake On Lan and kiosk shutdown, package creation, and PC installation workflows. The software is open source and self-hosted on premise; users can run their own server or request a cloud-hosted trial. The server can run on any Linux distribution and uses MariaDB, Apache2 and PHP 7.3 or newer. The documented admin client supports Chromium-based browsers and Firefox version 80 or newer. Up to 20 devices can be managed free. A commercial license is required beyond 20 computers; the listed Enterprise license costs €299 per year per additional device for one year.