Most people know Canonical for Ubuntu, but the company has quietly built an entire ecosystem of open-source tools around it. As someone who runs a small homelab, I went down the rabbit hole of Canonical's project catalog, and found three tools stood out: Multipass, MAAS, and MicroCloud. MultipassA full Ubuntu VM in just two commandsCloseI test and try a lot of software, and for that I am constantly creating and deleting virtual machines. It streamlines node discovery, builds the cluster, configures shared storage, and gives you a highly available cloud that hosts both virtual machines and containers. Ubuntu is only one part of Canonical's storyUbuntu may be Canonical's flagship product, but it's far from the only interesting software the company develops.