Compute Cloud@Customer introduces new features
- Services: Compute Cloud@Customer
- Release Date: July 03, 2025
A new release of Compute Cloud@Customer is now available with the following new features:
- Updated Platform Images
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New platform images are available. You can create instances with the following new platform images.
- New Marketplace Images
- In addition to the Oracle Weblogic marketplace images, Compute Cloud@Customer now offers the following marketplace images:
- Oracle SOA (PAID)
- Oracle Tuxedo Enterprise Image UCM
- RackWare Migration Manager (RMM) UCM
- RackWare Kubernetes Solution - SWIFT (Migration-Subscription) UCM
- New Method to Authenticate the Registration Process
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As of June 2025, a certificate chain of trust is used to authenticate the registration process that establishes the connection between the Compute Cloud@Customer infrastructure and your tenancy. Prior to June 2025, the connection used PIN-based authentication. See Connecting a Compute Cloud@Customer Infrastructure to OCI.
- Support for Secondary Identity Domains
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By default, if Compute Cloud@Customer is associated with an OCI tenancy that uses IAM identity domains, the default identity domain is automatically synchronized to the Compute Cloud@Customer infrastructure in your data center. Now you can have one additional OCI identity domain synchronized to Compute Cloud@Customer, each with different identity and security requirements to protect your applications and resources. Having a secondary identity domain enables you to maintain the isolation of administrative control over each identity domain. See Identity Domains.
- System Upgrade to Oracle Linux 8
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This release of the software migrates the core system components to Oracle Linux 8. This includes operating systems and the platform layer, container images, microservices, and so on. A new disk layout is applied to management nodes and compute nodes, which contributes to faster and more reliable future upgrades. The management cluster is torn down, and reconstructed from the upgraded components.
- Enhanced Upgrade Workflow Orchestration
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The upgrade is now a fully integrated end-to-end process. Each individual component has its own process to maintain the granular nature of the upgrade, but all individual upgrade processes are orchestrated through a central workflow that runs all operations across the entire system, as prescribed by the upgrade plan.
- Introduces Container Instances
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A container instance is a serverless compute service that enables you to quickly and easily run containers without managing any servers. Container instances runs your containers on serverless compute optimized for container workloads that provides the same isolation as virtual machines.
A container instance is a minimal instance designed to run only what is needed for containers. Compute, networking, and storage resources are created as needed. A single user-specified container is started in the container instance. For more information, see Container Instances.
- Introduces Storage Replication
- Storage replication enables you to replicate the following storage services on Compute Cloud@Customer:
- Block volumes and boot volumes: You can asynchronously replicate a boot volume, block volume, or volume group to a different infrastructure and synchronize the data at regular intervals. A replica is not a backup. A backup is a point-in-time copy that enables you to return to a previous version of a volume or volume group.
- File Systems: You can asynchronously replicate a file system and its snapshots to a different infrastructure at regular intervals.
- Load Balancer Updates
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Important
The internal foundations of the load balancer services are moving to a new implementation, which leads to minor differences in functionality. Administrators should verify the existing configuration of deployed load balancers before upgrading Compute Cloud@Customer.
It might be necessary to reconfigure active load balancers to ensure a successful upgrade. See Upgrade might impact Load Balancer as a Service functionality.
- Kubernetes Engine Updates
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The following new features are added for Compute Cloud@Customer Kubernetes Engine (OKE):
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Private Clusters. You can create a private cluster and use a Dynamic Routing Gateway to communicate with your on-premises IP address space, or use a Local Peering Gateway to communicate with instances in other VCNs. See Creating OKE Network Resources.
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VCN-Native Pod Networking. VCN-Native Pod Networking enables direct communication between pods in the control plane node pool worker nodes, and enables direct communication between worker node pods and other resources. The other resources can be in the same or different subnet and in the same or different compartment. See Creating VCN-Native Pod Network Resources.
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Cluster Add-ons. Cluster add-ons are components that you can choose to deploy on a Kubernetes cluster. Cluster add-ons extend core Kubernetes functionality and improve cluster manageability and performance. This release offers the WebLogic Kubernetes Operator add-on, which supports running WebLogic Server and Fusion Middleware Infrastructure domains on Kubernetes. See Managing OKE Cluster Add-ons.
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Node Pool Creation. You can create a node pool when you create the cluster. See Creating an OKE Cluster.
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