Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Oracle Autonomous Linux Image

The Oracle Autonomous Linux platform image is based on Oracle Linux and is used to create Autonomous Linux instances. Autonomous Linux instances are managed using the Autonomous Linux service in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Autonomous Linux provides:

  • Automatic daily updates, including zero-downtime Ksplice updates for kernel, OpenSSL, and glibc libraries.
  • Monitoring for critical events, such as a kernel oops or kernel crashes, including collecting and submitting the messages and logs needed to debug and provide a root cause analysis of the event.

For more information, see Autonomous Linux.

Oracle Autonomous Linux Image Details

The following Oracle Autonomous Linux platform images are available:

Oracle Autonomous Linux 8

The following repositories are enabled by default in the Oracle Autonomous Linux 8 platform image:

  • ol8_UEKR7
  • ol8_addons
  • ol8_appstream
  • ol8_baseos
  • ol8_ksplice
  • ol8_oci_included
  • ol8_userspace_ksplice
Important

Autonomous Linux is not supported with Red Hat Compatible Kernel.

To verify the enabled repositories on the instance, use the following command: 

dnf repolist

For example:

# dnf repolist
This system is receiving updates from OSMS server.
repo id                                                                repo name
ol8_addons-x86_64                                                      Oracle Linux 8 Addons (x86_64)
ol8_appstream-x86_64                                                   Oracle Linux 8 Application Stream (x86_64)
ol8_baseos_latest-x86_64                                               Oracle Linux 8 BaseOS Latest (x86_64)
ol8_ksplice-x86_64                                                     Ksplice for Oracle Linux 8 (x86_64)
ol8_oci_included-x86_64                                                Oracle Software for OCI users on Oracle Linux 8 (x86_64)
ol8_uekr7-x86_64                                                       Oracle Linux 8 UEK Release 7 (x86_64)
ol8_userspace_ksplice-x86_64                                           Ksplice aware userspace packages for Oracle Linux 8 (x86_64)

The image includes the release packages for the ol8_developer and ol8_developer_EPEL repositories, but these repositories are disabled by default.

Note

Packages found in the ol8_developer and ol8_developer_EPEL repositories are only entitled to basic installation support.

Oracle Autonomous Linux 7

The following repositories are enabled by default in the Oracle Autonomous Linux platform image:

  • ol7_UEKR6
  • ol7_addons
  • ol7_ksplice
  • ol7_latest
  • ol7_oci_included
  • ol7_optional_latest
  • ol7_software_collections
  • ol7_userspace_ksplice
Important

Autonomous Linux is not supported with Red Hat Compatible Kernel.

To verify the enabled repositories on the instance, use the following command: 

yum repolist

For example:

# yum repolist
Loaded plugins: langpacks, osmsplugin, ulninfo
This system is receiving updates from OSMS.
repo id                                                    repo name                                                                                                   status
ol7_addons-x86_64                                          Oracle Linux 7Server Add ons (x86_64)                                                                         428
ol7_ksplice-x86_64                                         Ksplice for Oracle Linux 7 (x86_64)                                                                         29502
ol7_latest-x86_64                                          Oracle Linux 7Server Latest (x86_64)                                                                        20178
ol7_oci_included-x86_64                                    Oracle Software for OCI users on Oracle Linux 7 (x86_64)                                                     2638
ol7_optional_latest-x86_64                                 Oracle Linux 7Server Optional Latest (x86_64)                                                               14587
ol7_software_collections-x86_64                            Software Collection Library release 3.0 packages for Oracle Linux 7 (x86_64)                                12897
ol7_uekr6-x86_64                                           Latest Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 6 for Oracle Linux 7Server (x86_64)                              683
ol7_userspace_ksplice-x86_64                               Ksplice aware userspace packages for Oracle Linux 7Server (x86_64)                                            594
repolist: 81507

The image includes the release packages for the ol7_developer and ol7_developer_EPEL repositories, but these repositories are disabled by default.

Note

Packages found in the ol7_developer and ol7_developer_EPEL repositories are only entitled to basic installation support.