Quickly create a high performance NFS server in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure...
To make it easy for customers that rely heavily on an NFS server for their on-premises applications, we created an Oracle Linux Storage Appliance image for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.There are times...
View ArticleOracle Container Registry mirrors in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Just in time for Oracle OpenWorld 2017!For quite some time now, we have had a Container Registry available for users with an Oracle Single-Signon account. This registry contains a large number of...
View ArticleARM, YUM, Cloud, containers,...
It's been a while since my last post so a lot of stuff has been going on! This one will be a random collection of things that I want to point out. I will have to use a lot of tags to keep search...
View ArticleInstalling Visual Studio Code on Oracle Linux 7
Visual Studio Code is a popular editor. There is an RPM available for "el7" from the Microsoft yumrepo. This RPM can be manually downloaded on Oracle Linux 7 and installed with # yum localinstall...
View ArticleNew packages added to Oracle Linux (OCI SDK/CLI, more EPEL packages,...
For the folks that don't check our awesomely cool what's new page :-) on yum.oracle.com : whats new here's a bit of a summary of some of the cool packages we just added in the last week or 2:- latest...
View Articlenode.js 4, node.js 6, nodejs 8, node-oracledb12, php7.0 php 7.1 - php-oci
Just in time for the holidays.A bunch of new RPMs released in a bunch of new channels on http://yum.oracle.com.- node.js 4, node.js 6 and node.js 8 for both OL6 and OL7 along with the node-oracledb-12c...
View Article"Oracle Container Runtime for Docker" (17. ...
Basically - added 17.09.1 and 1.8.4-2.0.1 to http://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/preview/x86_64/index.htmlEnjoy.
View ArticleOracle Linux yum repository mirrors inside Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
I mentioned in a previous post that this was coming... well it's here now! :)We have local mirrors of yum.oracle.com inside the OCI...
View ArticleRPMs for VirtualBox guest addition drivers for Oracle Linux now available
This has been a long time coming... but finally... for those that don't regularly check our 'What's new' page on yum.oracle.com...We started building the kernel modules and guest additions for...
View ArticleOracle Solaris 11.4 Beta publicly available on Oracle Technology Network (OTN)
Oracle Solaris 11.4 Beta is downloadable from OTN as of right now. This is a very exciting milestone. Go and download it and play with it! For more information...
View ArticleUsing a BareMetal GPU shape in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with Oracle Linux...
A lot of developers are using TensorFlow for Machine Learning these days. In Oracle Cloud Infrastructure we provide some great GPU options. One of them is the BM.GPU2.2 shape which is an X7-based GPU...
View Articlepublic-yum.oracle.com / yum.oracle.com now support https
Might have taken us a while but you can now use https in your .repo files to connect to our yum repositories.We will transition the repo files we ship over time but we don't want to break people that...
View ArticleOracle Linux kernel blogs
Don't forget to check the Linux kernel team's blog. We're having a regular cadence now to write up things that are hopefully interesting. Projects the developers are working on or have worked on etc...
View ArticleUsing Let's Encrypt with Oracle Linux in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
I stole Sergio's headline here and I am just going to link to his blog :)...Sergio wrote up a how-to on using a let's encrypt cert and installing it on OL using nginx in an Oracle Cloud instance...
View ArticleSoftware Collections 3.0 for Oracle Linux 6 and Oracle Linux 7, Oracle Linux...
We just recently released a new Software Collections update on our yum server.SCL 3.0 in the Software Collections yum repo:On Oracle Linux 7 this adds maven 3.5, nginx 1.12, nodejs8, php7.1 and python...
View ArticleOracle linux 7 for ARM64 updated to OL7.4
We just updated the Oracle Linux 7 for ARM64 content.Oracle Linux 7 for ARM64 (64-bit only) is freely downloadable from OTN: here.The release is now at the same level as x64 (Oracle Linux 7 update...
View ArticleOracle Container Runtime for Docker 17.12
Busy news day!We just updated our docker-engine rpm to version 17.12. As always you can find it in the Oracle Linux 7 preview channel on our yum server.docker-engine-17.12.0.ol-1.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpmWe...
View Articleoci-utils (oracle cloud infrastructure) for Oracle Linux package
We recently added another little utilities RPM for Oracle Linux 7 to our collection:oci-utils is an Oracle Linux RPM that contains a set of scripts to make managing an OCI instance easier, from within...
View ArticleOracle Linux 7 UEK5 (Linux kernel 4.14) sneak preview
We just published an initial preview version of our next kernel-uek. This is based on upstream Linux 4.14 (latest stable -14). UEK4 is/was based on a 4.1 upstream Linux kernel.If you want to try it...
View ArticleOracle Linux 7 UEK5 - preview updated from 4.14.11 to 4.14.20
Just as FYI -latest update of uek5 preview is on https://yum.oracle.comOracle Linux 7 Server - Developer preview Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 5kernel-uek-4.14.20-1.el7uek - The Linux kernel...
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