Canonical announced on Wednesday that its Ubuntu Linux operating system is now officially supported on IBM's recently released IBM z14 Model ZR1 and LinuxONE Rockhopper II servers.

It appears that Canonical worked closely with IBM to ensure Ubuntu works out-of-the-box on IBM's recently announced IBM z14 Model ZR1 and IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper II servers, along with the company's LXD next-generation system container manager, OpenStack open-source software platform for cloud computing, Juju application and service modelling tool, and Canonical’s Distribution of Kubernetes.

These will provide companies and developers with all the tools they need to get the job done, building and deploying apps on their infrastructures at a large scale within a single system. For hybrid-cloud environments, IBM's new systems also come with a Docker-certified infrastructure for Docker Enterprise Edition (EE), which integrates management and scale tested on up to 330,000 Docker containers.

"Canonical began this journey with IBM two years ago and we’ve seen tremendous progress in a relatively short period of time," said Regis Paquette, Head of Global Cloud Technology Alliances at Canonical. "We are thrilled to now enable IBM’s scale-up platform with full cloud native capabilities and automation, while leveraging their best-in-class secure environment."

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS will also be supported on IBM's new servers

Canonical said that which they also ensured its upcoming Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) operating system, due for release later this month on April 26, 2018, will be fully supported on IBM z14 Model ZR1 and LinuxONE Rockhopper II servers. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS will be Canonical's seventh long-term supported (LTS) release of Ubuntu, one of the world's most popular GNU/Linux distributions with millions of users worldwide.

The IBM z14 model ZR1 and IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper II machines are an expansion to IBM's family of IBM Z servers. They are engineered to offer the benefits of the z14 technology to all types of organizations, from startups to large enterprises. They're perfect for any data center that uses a standard 19-inch rack, not only frames, capable of processing more than 850 million fully encrypted transactions per day.