Security News > 2020 > November > Canonical Publishes Secure Container Application Images on Docker Hub
Canonical, the publisher of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, announced on Tuesday that it has made available long-term support container images on Docker Hub, promising up to 10 years of security maintenance.
Some of these hardened images have a five-year free security maintenance period - the standard security maintenance of the underlying Ubuntu LTS - while customers of Ubuntu Pro are provided access to ten-year Extended Security Maintenance images.
"As the platform provider for the vast majority of container runtimes, we are responsible for the underlying performance and security of multi-cloud container operations and are glad to extend that service to the application container layer."
The announcement comes just weeks after application security company Snyk started providing security scanning capabilities for images pushed to Docker Hub.
"The availability of the LTS Docker Image Portfolio, as well as the recently announced Docker security scanning powered by Snyk directly in Docker Hub, can drive a surge in Kubernetes adoption as companies embrace digital transformation while significantly reducing operating risk in the solution application life-cycle," he added.