We’re excited to announce several new enhancements to Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes—dramatically simplifying your operational experience when running enterprise #Kubernetes at scale. Learn more about the new enhancements here!
Serverless Kubernetes with virtual nodes, preannounced at our recent CloudWorld conference, enables customers to ensure reliable operations at-scale without the complexities of managing, scaling, upgrading, and troubleshooting the underlying Kubernetes node infrastructure. Virtual nodes enable granular pod-level elasticity with usage-based pricing. This feature improves resource utilization by provisioning right-sized compute on demand as pods are scheduled enabling customers to optimize the cost of running Kubernetes workloads at scale.
Add-on lifecycle management provides customers greater flexibility to install and configure their chosen operational software or related applications. Add-ons include essential Kubernetes software deployed on the cluster, such as CoreDNS and kube-proxy, and access to a growing portfolio of related applications, such as the Kubernetes Dashboard, Oracle Database Operator, and more. The service manages the full lifecycle of the add-on software, from the initial deployment and configuration, through ongoing operations, including upgrades, patching, scaling, rolling configuration changes, and more.
Workload identity enhances your security posture with the ability to specify granular identity and access management controls at the pod level versus scoping access permissions at the node level.
More improvements include support for larger clusters with a default of 2,000 worker nodes, the introduction of an OKE SLA based on Kubernetes API server availability, and upcoming features, such as flexible workload support using self-managed nodes, preemptible instance support, and more coming soon. These features enable advanced use cases that require more granular controls, large-scale workloads, or specialized operational software.