Ubuntu 16.04 | Extended Lifecycle Support

Ubuntu’s LTS releases are popular due to the long support windows – but every Ubuntu LTS release reaches the end of life at some point in time. Official support for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS ended on April 30, 2021. If you use Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for your enterprise workloads you cannot risk running out of formal, official support for your Ubuntu servers. Relying on an unsupported distribution can turn out costly because you lose access to critical vulnerability patches. It leaves organizations open to significant security risks.

For enterprises with unlimited budgets switching to the commercial support of Ubuntu might be a viable solution. But for many organizations this option is not realistic. Migrating to another free Linux distribution or upgrading to the next version of LTS Ubuntu is the path most enterprises take and the path is challenging. Organizations cannot simply switch to the latest release without thorough planning. They need to perform thorough testing and benchmarking to flag potential problems and to gauge risk. However, enterprise companies may not have sufficient time left to do so.

With the Extended Lifecycle Support service, you get the time to carefully plan your migration path from end-of-life Linux to the newest version.

Eliminate the need to rush into a migration plan full of risks with a safe, trusted & easy-to-install alternative to vendor support

Patches available soon after CVEs go public

The TuxCare team is famous for quickly delivering patches for critical CVEs right after the CVE goes public.

Easy setup, no migration required

Run a single script. No reboot is necessary, never interrupt your operations. Simply sync to a new repository file.

Kernel and critical package updates

Any Extended Lifecycle Support subscription includes regular kernel updates plus updates for critical packages including Apache, PHP, MySQL, Glibc, OpenSSL/SSH. View the full list of supported packages

Years of support

Extended Lifecycle Support by TuxCare lasts 4 years beyond EOL dates at a minimum. It gives you ample time to migrate.

Attractive pricing

Starting at $3.50 per server, Extended Lifecycle Support is easy on IT budgets. ELS is a sensible way to buy time to migrate.

More than

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Enterprise organizations entrust
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Pricing

Maintaining end-of-life software can be expensive, but TuxCare’s Extended Lifecycle Support service for Ubuntu 16.04 is at least 20 times less expensive than vendor support.

Starting at

$4.25

per Operating System Image

/month

OSI - Operating System Image, including physical device, virtual machine or a public cloud instance.

Volume discounts apply starting from 1k+ OSIs

* OSI - Operating System Image, including physical device, virtual machine or a public cloud instance

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FAQ

How long does Extended Lifecycle Support last?

Extended Lifecycle Support service varies depending on the Linux OS that you are covering with extended support. Commonly you can expect Extended Lifecycle Support to last for at least three years – for example, at the time of writing, our CentOS® 6 Extended Lifecycle Support support lasts until November 2024, Oracle® Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle Support lasts until March 2025 and Ubuntu® 16.04 LTS support from TuxCare lasts until April 2025.

Will there be any disruption or downtime when I enable TuxCare's Extended Lifecycle Support?

No. You are not migrating your operating system or making any substantive changes to the way your workload is handled. Enabling Extended Lifecycle Support Service from TuxCare involves a simple change in the location of repositories. There is no downtime and no need to restart your servers. Activating TuxCare’s Extended Lifecycle Support will not degrade your server performance, or disrupt your operations.

How is Extended Lifecycle Support from TuxCare implemented?

Applying TuxCare Extended Lifecycle Support requires running a single command that changes the location of key repositories. More can be found in the Extended Lifecycle Support documentation.

Which packages will be updated and supported?

Extended Lifecycle Support Service by TuxCare includes updates to the kernel and other critical packages such as glibc, openssh, openssl, and zlib. httpd, mysql, php. Userspace packages will also be supported. Other supported packages include: acl, acpid, at, attr, audit, authconfig, basesystem, bash, bc, blktrace, bridge-utils, busybox, bzip2, crash, cyrus-imapd, cyrus-sasl, db4-utils, device-mapper, dhclient, dhcpv6, dmidecode, dos2unix, dovecot, ed, gcc, gd, gdb, glib2, groff, info, Iptstate, logrotate, lslk, lvm2, makedev, nfs4-acl-tools, nfs-utils, nspr, ntp, opensp, pam, perl, procmail, procps, python, rcs, rds-tools, rhnlib, rsync, rsyslog, setroubleshoot, setserial, setup, sos, stunnel, tzdata, vim, wget, yum-metadata-parser, yum-rhn-plugin.