About Operating System Patching

Oracle Big Data Cloud does not provide cloud tooling for operating system (OS) patching. You are responsible for installing OS patches to existing service instances.

You can obtain Oracle Linux OS patches from the Oracle’s Unbreakable Linux Network if you have an Oracle Linux support subscription. You can also obtain Linux OS patches from the Oracle Linux public yum server:

http://public-yum.oracle.com

Big Data Cloud VMs are preconfigured to enable you to install and update packages from the repositories on the Oracle Linux public yum server. The repository configuration file is in the /etc/yum.repos.d directory on the VMs. You can install, update, and remove packages by using the yum utility.

Note:

You are responsible for applying the required security updates published through the Oracle Linux public yum server.