Canonical continues with its idea of developing and enhancing the aspects that have the most future. Thus, it has recently presented a new version of your distribution with Kubernetes 1.7. Kubernetes will enable developers and sysadmins to have secure development environments capable of being moved to the production world.
Also, this version has other technologies such as LXD or support with technologies from Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc ... A distribution that is still based on Ubuntu but with an air of servers and development that Ubuntu Desktop does not normally have.
Canonical Kubernetes 1.7 is now available to everyone
Canonical has been developing these types of versions for a long time, versions that it mainly uses with its clients and then applies to Ubuntu, if the changes are really worth it. On this occasion, Kubernetes 1.7 is implemented, a current version of this application development and scaling system in container format. But, Canonical has also added new features, features not found in other distributions such as symmetric authentication for users and components or the development of pure LXD containers.
If we are system administrators and we already have Kubernetes 1.6, in this official project page You can find information on how to update the system. If you do not have or want to try Kubernetes 1.7 in Ubuntu, with the same page you will know how to get these tools.
Kubernetes is not something unique to Canonical, there are other distributions that use these technologies, like Red Hat or SUSE. However, unlike the rest, Canonical includes other proprietary technologies that make the version quite popular in the server world.
Personally, I think this distribution is quite interesting for servers and system administrators, but the best of all is, that like the rest of GNU programs, the user can choose, test, modify and change if he does not like what he has.