Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Oracle Autonomous Linux Image

Use the Oracle Autonomous Linux image to reduce the complexity and overhead of common operating system management tasks, including automatic daily updates and monitoring of critical events.

Important

Autonomous Linux instances are managed by the Autonomous Linux service. Creating an Autonomous Linux instance automatically registers it with the service.

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.

Mandatory Software Sources (Repositories)

When you create an Autonomous Linux instance, it gets registered with the Autonomous Linux service, and a minimum set of required software sources (repositories) are automatically attached to the instance. For more information, see Mandatory Software Sources.

To verify the required software sources (repositories) are attached to the Autonomous Linux instance: 

sudo dnf repolist
This system is receiving updates from OSMH.
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)