Hello and welcome back to What’s New in OCI. This month I’m kicking off with an update from
Gartner and I have great news to share. Oracle has once again been recognized as a Leader in
the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Integration Platform as a Service. This marks our sixth
consecutive year in this position, and we're thrilled to be recognized for our commitment to
providing exceptional IPaaS solutions. For those who may be unfamiliar with IPaaS, Gartner defines
it as a vendor-managed cloud service that allows users to integrate various applications, services,
and data sources. We're particularly proud to be ranked highest for our Ability to Execute,
which we believe speaks to the success of our customers in leveraging OCI integration
services to connect their applications, data, and APIs across their distributed cloud environments.
With these services, our customers can accelerate their digital transformation initiatives and
remove friction from their operations.
Next up, Confidential Computing... At OCI, we understand the importance of robust security measures to protect your data. That's why we're
constantly working to provide our customers with the latest and most advanced security offerings.
To start with, we already encrypt customers' data at rest in our Object and Block Storage services,
and in-transit with OCI Vault and OCI Certificates. We're thrilled to announce
we're now taking security to the next level with our Confidential Computing offering that
protects data whilst in use. For regulated industries such as finance and healthcare,
protecting data throughout its entire lifecycle is critical. With Confidential Computing,
customers can now better protect their data whilst in use on OCI E3 and E4 Compute instances.
By providing security at the hardware level, Confidential Computing helps reduce the risk of
data exposure and protect against vulnerabilities, such as insider threats and firmware compromises.
We're excited to offer this powerful solution to our customers, and it's available now.
Thats all from me. Over to you, Kenna!
Thanks Mark! I have three developer-related pieces of news... First up is the release of Oracle Visual
Builder Studio on OCI, a team development hub that integrates agile and collaborative development,
code versioning, and continuous integration and delivery automation capabilities--and it's free
to use for OCI customers. It has features for team collaboration including scrum and kanban
dashboards, GIT repositories, peer code review and much more, and includes a CI/CD engine and
a declarative web interface for creating build pipelines that automate packaging, testing,
and deploying your code. Check it out in the console under the Application Development menu.
Also now available is the Shell Stage, a new feature of the OCI DevOps service that streamlines
the ability of teams to perform infrastructure changes, deploy to other targets, perform tests,
and more. Shell Stage allows developers to run bash commands and scripts in a container that
runs in your tenancy, which means you can now pass in a command spec with bash commands broken into
steps tracked in the Oracle Cloud Console. And third up is the release of the CD3
automation toolkit. CD3 stands for cloud deployment design deliverable,
and the CD3 automation toolkit is a processor in the form of an excel sheet that converts detailed
OCI design specs into runnable terraform code, or takes an export of customer tenancy objects
and resources and converts it back into a design spec in Excel format. CD3 is platform independent,
and you can reuse the generated Terraform files at any time to build similar infrastructure.
That's it from me. Let's hear from Shig next!
Thanks Kenna! Are you looking for guidance on how to achieve high availability with your Kubernetes clusters?
What are your options? We have a new blog that explains the different mechanisms you can use to
distribute PODS of a deployment across NODES within an OKE cluster, to address situations
such as multi-region deployments, stateful applications, and deployment strategies using
CI/CD pipelines. With this knowledge, you can minimize the risk of a single point of failure
and improve the overall reliability of your OKE cluster. Check out the blog in the links below.
Achieving maximum disk I/O throughput is essential for the performance of any application and
choosing the right configuration to deliver it is critical. The Windows Operating System currently
has several limitations for the shapes available and eligible with the OCI Block Volume service,
and the final I/O performance depends on several factors beyond your choice of Compute shape.
Our new blog walks through the options to help maximize disk I/O performance at minimal cost,
making this a must-read for all Windows OS users. And finally, have you noticed anything different
about your Oracle Cloud console lately? We’ve updated the look to our next generation Redwood
design! This update to the console theme is the first in our effort to enhance productivity,
efficiency and the overall user experience, so look out for more improvements ahead!
And that’s all for now, but if you want to know even more,
check out our blog in the links below! And if you’d like to see more videos like this,
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