Landscape how-to guides

[yanisa-hs]

These how-to guides can be applied to many key operations and common tasks with Landscape.

Landscape installation and set-up

• Quickstart installation
• Manual installation
• Juju installation
• Juju HA installation
• Install in a LXD container
• Install on Google Cloud
• Install on Microsoft Azure
• Install on FIPS-compliant machines
• Install Landscape Client
• Configure Landscape Client
• Configure RabbitMQ
• Configure Postfix for emails
• Harden your deployment

Upgrade

• Upgrade Landscape
• Upgrade to 24.04 LTS

Backup and maintenance

• Backup and restore
• Manage maintenance tasks

Ubuntu Pro

• Attach Ubuntu Pro
• Enable Landscape

External authentication

• Active Directory authentication
• OpenID-Connect (OIDC) authentication
• Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) authentication

Repository mirrors

• Manage repositories in the web portal
• Manage repositories with the API
• Create tiered repository mirrors

Web portal

Web portal (24.04 or later)

• Manage administrators and roles
• Manage access groups
• Use annotations
• Manage Livepatch and kernel updates

Classic web portal (23.10 or earlier)

• Manage administrators and roles
• Manage access groups
• Manage computers
• Manage packages
• Manage snaps
• Other tasks

IoT for devices

• Overview
• Install the snap
• Configure the snap
• Create a Core image
• Remote script execution
• Use annotations

WSL integration

• Configure Landscape Beta
• Set up an environment
• Register WSL hosts
• Manage WSL instances
• Use a specific image source
• Perform common tasks
• Get support

[alfem]

I am currently evaluating Landscape in order to manage Ubuntu Desktops within my organization. But I only find references (docs, examples, scripts…) about servers configuration.

Is there any information about typical desktop configuration for users laptops? Perhaps I am wrong and Landscape is not orienteed to this use case.

[yanisa-hs]

@alfem Using Landscape for Desktop management is common. The “server configurations” you’ve found may be referring to Landscape Server (the name of the software). As in, the “server configuration” = the “Landscape Server” software configuration, which isn’t necessarily installed on a physical server. Landscape Server acts as the “server” component of a client-server model. You can use Landscape Server (and Landscape Client) on Ubuntu Desktop.

If you haven’t seen it already, we do have a What is Landscape? overview document that may help answer some high-level questions for you.

Most of our documentation isn’t intended to be specific to Ubuntu Desktop or Ubuntu Server, although we do have a separate section geared towards Ubuntu Core users.

This isn’t in our documentation at the moment, but here’s an example of an Ubuntu Desktop use case–it’s a recording of a recent webinar on how to use Landscape to configure authd on Ubuntu Desktop (YouTube video).

And here’s a link to our contact form if/when you’re interested in talking to someone more in depth about Landscape: Get in touch!

I hope that was helpful!

[alfem]

I had already read those webpages and still have dubts about using Landscape to control Ubuntu workstations (desktops).

In the documents you sent me I can read the limitations of the landscape client in snap format: user management does not work and script execution is limited to the snap filesystem. I am afraid it is not a solution for Desktops.

Thanks anyway @yanisa-hs.