{
  "id": 19187789,
  "title": "Tigera and Canonical Pair Calico With Canonical Kubernetes for Multi-Tenant Clusters",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/09/tigera-and-canonical-pair-calico-with-canonical-kubernetes-for-multi",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-11-09T17:19:48.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Container Journal",
    "slug": "container-journal",
    "url": "https://cloudnativenow.com/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america-2026/tigera-and-canonical-pair-calico-with-canonical-kubernetes-for-multi-tenant-clusters/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "San Jose, Calif. -- In a partnership aimed at simplifying multi-tenant Kubernetes deployments, Tigera, the creator of Calico, and Canonical, the developer of Ubuntu, have joined forces. Together, they are providing a reference architecture that combines Canonical's CNCF-compliant Kubernetes distribution with Calico's networking and security layer, supported by commercial backing from both companies. Platform teams frequently create their Kubernetes setup using components from different vendors, leading to inconsistencies in security, varying support schedules, and policies that work differently across environments. This collaboration aims to offer a unified framework for these teams to adhere to. Canonical provides Ubuntu Pro and Canonical Kubernetes, which can scale from a single node to highly available clusters using Cluster API. Both offerings are backed for up to 15 years, surpassing the typical 14-month support period for upstream Kubernetes. Calico's features include identity-aware microsegmentation, policy tiers that enable platform teams to grant tenants autonomy within defined boundaries, egress and ingress gateways built on the Kubernetes Gateway API, DNS-based controls, and Cluster Mesh for inter-cluster communication across sites, all running on an eBPF data plane. Tigera's president, Pervez Sikora, highlighted the importance of governance in multi-tenant Kubernetes environments, stating, \"Without robust governance, multi-tenant Kubernetes fails. Calico's policy tiers allow platform teams to set central guardrails while still providing tenants the flexibility they need within those guardrails.\"",
  "summary": "SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Tigera, the company behind Calico, and Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, announced a collaboration to help enterprises run multi-tenant Kubernetes across cloud, on-premises virtual machines and edge environments. The companies are pairing Canonical’s CNCF-compliant Kubernetes distribution with Calico’s networking and network security layer in a reference The post Tigera and…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}