Building with Certified Hardware
Raspberry Pi
Intel Nuc
VM
The Raspberry Pi device family
The world’s most famous maker board. Fully certified and supported by Canonical. Ubuntu works on all 64-bit Raspberry Pi devices and is our primary focus for testing and development of new ARM Ubuntu Appliances.
The popular single-board computer with 40-pin connector is a de facto standard for prototyping and experimentation and the Compute Module range is suited for production embedding in a wide range of devices.
Certified devices
Raspberry Pi 4
CERTIFIED
- Choice of RAM 1GB, 2GB, 4GB or 8GB
- Micro-HDMI x2
- USB 2.0 x2
- USB 3.0 x2
- USB-C power supply
- Wifi
- Bluetooth 5.0
- 40 pin GPIO
Raspberry Pi 3B+
CERTIFIED
- 1GB RAM
- Full-size HDMI
- USB 2.0 x4
- Micro-USB power supply
- Wifi
- Bluetooth 4.2
- 40 pin GPIO
Raspberry Pi 3B
CERTIFIED
- 1GB RAM
- Full-size HDMI
- USB 2.0 x4
- Micro-USB power supply
- Wifi
- Bluetooth 4.2
- 40 pin GPIO
RPi Compute Module 3 (lite)
CERTIFIED
- 1GB RAM
- 1.2GHz BCM2837 processor
- Fits a DDR2 SODIMM connector
RPi Compute Module 3+
CERTIFIED
- 1GB RAM
- 1.2GHz BCM2837 processor
- Fits a DDR2 SODIMM connector
RPi Compute Module 2
CERTIFIED
- 1GB RAM
- Full-size HDMI
- USB 2.0 x4
- Micro-USB power supply
- 40 pin GPIO
The PC device family
The board that puts the power of a full-size PC in the palm of your hand. Fully certified and supported by Canonical. Ubuntu ‘just works’ on numerous Intel-NUC devices, and is recommended for testing and development of Ubuntu Appliances that require X86 architecture or more computational power than a Raspberry Pi.
This small-form-factor PC can be thought of as a laptop without a screen or battery. It is the best choice for discreet or computationally heavy appliances.
Certified devices
Try out Ubuntu Appliances on Ubuntu, Windows or macOS
Try out Ubuntu Appliance images in an isolated virtual machine on your PC or Mac with Multipass.
Try before you Pi
Maybe your hardware is still in the post or you’re still wondering if you should give Ubuntu Appliances a try? These appliances can all be run inside of a virtual machine, on your workstation, no extras required.
Appliance hardware partners
Canonical works with these hardware vendors to certify and maintain enterprise-grade appliances.
Not the hardware you’re looking for?
As a developer, you deserve to get the best Ubuntu experience out of the box. We test every Ubuntu Appliance to work perfectly across all certified boards and boxes. If you want your hardware to be certified for Ubuntu Appliances let us know.