Oracle Autonomous Linux Now Available In Oracle Cloud

In this blog post, I will discuss the recently launched Oracle Autonomous Linux and its benefits that were announced at Oracle OpenWorld 2019. 

To know all the new updates announced at Oracle OpenWorld 2019, click HERE.

Overview Of Oracle Autonomous Linux

• Oracle Autonomous Linux, based on the native Oracle Linux operating environment, along with the new Oracle OS Management Service, is the first and the only autonomous operating environment that helps to reduce complexity and human error.
• Combined with the native Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services such as Oracle OS Management Service, it uses the advanced machine learning and autonomous capabilities to deliver unprecedented cost savings, security, availability and frees up critical IT resources to tackle more strategic initiatives. It offers even more automation such as autoscaling, lifecycle management across pools, and monitoring.
• Oracle Autonomous Linux executes automatic patch updates and tuning without human interaction, thus improving user productivity, security, and downtime.
• It is available with Oracle Linux Premier Support at no cost to Oracle Cloud customers. Oracle Autonomous Linux is binary-compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, allowing IBM Red Hat customers to immediately start using the service with current applications on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

What are the benefits?

Keeping the systems patched and secure is one of the biggest challenges faced by the customers today. These tasks can be dicey and error-prone, and extremely difficult to manage in large-scale cloud environments. But when it comes to Oracle Autonomous Linux, customers can rely on autonomous capabilities to help ensure their systems are secure and highly available to help prevent cyberattacks.

Let’s take a look at the benefits in detail.

• More secure 

With Oracle Ksplice technology, Oracle Autonomous Linux provides hands-off, automatic security updates every day to the Linux kernel and key userspace libraries. Oracle Autonomous Linux provides continuous threat monitoring and exploits detection, continuous configuration compliance checks, and prompt fleet-wide operating system security patching and remediation. It provides immediate protection from zero-day vulnerabilities with no downtime. It helps to prevent cyberattacks and system failures from missed or incorrectly applied patches.

• Cuts cost

Oracle Autonomous Linux offers 30 to 50% TCO savings versus both on-premise and non-Oracle Cloud vendors and saves labor costs by delivering automated patching, updates, and tuning including performing routine OS maintenance tasks while the system is up and running.

• Highly available and scalable

It avoids unnecessary downtime which is costly, by using Oracle Ksplice to apply kernel patches without rebooting your instance and updates. It automatically adjusts the number of compute instances with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure compute autoscaling. Reducing human errors means achieving higher availability and increasing the system and application reliability.

• Compatible and complete

There is an enhanced OS parameter tuning with embedded profiles along with full testing and support by Oracle to validate that updates don’t break application compatibility. It comes with integrated Oracle Cloud Infrastructure notification service, monitoring service, and compute metrics. Oracle Autonomous Linux also comes with Binary compatibility with IBM Red Hat Enterprise Linux for application compatibility.

• Manageability and automation

It reduces the number of system administrator tasks. It seamlessly leverages Oracle Cloud Infrastructure native services to simplify the management of your instances and meet IT compliance and security.

Getting Started With Oracle Autonomous Linux

To leverage the benefits of Oracle Autonomous Linux for your application or databases, sign to http://cloud.oracle.com. Then under the marketplace, search for Oracle Autonomous Linux and you can create an instance using that.

Hope you find the blog useful in understanding Oracle Autonomous Linux & its capabilities. Post your doubts in the comments’ section.

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