Welcome back to What's New in OCI! Kubernetes is one of the fastest
growing open-source projects in history, with Enterprises increasingly standardizing
on Kubernetes and expanding their use beyond containerized applications to other workloads.
However, Kubernetes can be complex and difficult to manage at scale. To address these concerns
and simplify the operational experience, we recently introduced several enhancements to OKE…
First, Virtual Nodes bring a Serverless Kubernetes experience. They look and act
like traditional nodes but are serverless and fully managed by OCI to ensure reliable
operations at-scale without the complexities of managing the underlying node infrastructure.
Virtual Nodes enable granular pod-level elasticity with usage-based pricing,
to improve resource utilization and help optimize running costs.
Next, Add-on Lifecycle management provides greater flexibility to install and configure operational
tools or applications to support and extend the functionality of Kubernetes environments.
Add-ons include software such as CoreDNS and Kube-proxy, as well as management tools such
as the Kubernetes Dashboard and Oracle Database Operator. The service manages
the full lifecycle of the add-ons, so you can offload maintenance of these tools to Oracle.
Workload Identity allows you to specify granular identity and access management controls at the
pod-level. When applications require access to OCI resources, you can write IAM policies scoped
to the Kubernetes service account associated with application pods. With Workload Identity,
you get fine-grained enterprise-grade identity and access management control
to enhance your security posture. With these and other enhancements,
Enterprises benefit from reduced risk and lower TCO, saving time and effort,
improving agility and accelerating adoption while scaling Kubernetes across the organization.
Find out more through the links below. That's all from me. Here's Mark with more news!
Hi, my name is Mark Lewis and today I have 3 updates for you.
Update number 1! Today, we’re announcing the general availability of OpenSearch 2.3
as part of OCI Search with OpenSearch. Let’s quickly recap: OpenSearch is an
open-source search and analytics suite that makes it easy to ingest, visualize,
and analyze data. It’s designed to be highly scalable, secure, and reliable and
is provided by OCI as a low-cost managed service. OpenSearch 2.3 delivers significant performance,
security, monitoring and alerting improvements which you can go test today.
Update 2! Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery Service is a fully managed data protection
service for Oracle databases running on OCI. Unique, automated capabilities protect Oracle
Database changes in real time, validate backups without overhead, and enable fast,
predictable recovery to any point in time. This allows customers to offload all backup
processing and storage requirements, thereby eliminating infrastructure
costs and manual admin overhead. Pricing is based on the amount of data
being protected, so this solution fits environments of all sizes.
Update 3! Many of you will know we have an industry-leading solution for running
VMware on OCI. I’m pleased to share that our Cloud VMware solution now supports Block volume storage.
If you haven’t tried it, the OCI Block Volume storage has features like performance autotuning,
automated backup, disaster recovery, and block storage cloning, all now available
to customers for their VMware workloads on OCI. With block storage for our Cloud VMware Solution,
we can scale the storage independently without the need to deploy more bare metal hosts,
so no resources are wasted and no extra guest operating system licenses are required, which
decreases the overall cost of the environment. I hope you’ll go and test these new updates
in your tenancies and don’t forget, if this video helped you,
hit the like and subscribe button below so we can keep spreading the word. Over to Kenna!
Thanks, Mark! I have two pieces of news for you today.
First up, Helm attestation is now available for OCI DevOps. Helm is the most popular way
to deploy apps to Kubernetes. It simplifies application deployment with Helm Charts to
bring infrastructure-as-code principals to Kubernetes and avoid manual processes that
frequently lead to errors. We know it can be business critical to confirm the integrity of
applications on your Kubernetes clusters, so you can now verify a Helm chart before deployment,
thus stopping unverified charts from being deployed at all. You can also perform additional
actions like doing a dry-run preview for a new Helm chart before deploying, upgrading the Helm
chart version, or changing the configuration of your Helm release during deployment.
Next, we have the release of Oracle Enterprise Landing Zone. This newly released Landing Zone
offers more out of the box controls, automation, enhanced governance for compliance requirements,
and more. You can create a Landing Zone to connect to other clouds as part of Oracle’s
distributed clouds strategy, or automate the creation of new users, accounts,
and resources on OCI, making it easier to scale your infrastructure as your organization grows.
For more details on all these items, check the description box for links and resources.
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