What is Landscape?
Landscape is an open source systems management and monitoring tool developed by Canonical for deploying, managing, and monitoring Ubuntu servers. It provides a web-based interface to manage multiple Ubuntu machines as well as servers running other Linux distributions or cloud instances.
Key features of Landscape include:
- Automatic deployment and configuration of new systems
- Monitoring of system health and resources
- Centralized security updates
- User and access control management
- Integration with popular cloud providers
- Role-based access control
- REST API for integration and automation
Landscape aims to simplify systems administration by enabling IT teams to easily manage infrastructure at scale from a single interface. It can help reduce maintenance overhead and improve security compliance across an organization's fleet of Linux servers, whether on-premises, in the cloud, or in hybrid environments.
Landscape is provided by Canonical both as a hosted service or for on-premises deployment. Paid enterprise support subscriptions are also available. The core software is open source to allow customization as needed.
Terraform, Ansible, cPanel, Webmin, Plesk, CyberPanel, SpaceWalk, Puppet, ClusterCS, Ajenti, Cobbler, munki are some alternatives to Landscape.