1 Introduction

The purpose of this document is to highlight the changes made in Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, Cloud Native Environment (CNE) from release 23.3.x to release 23.4.x. These changes may have impact on the customer network operations. Therefore, it is recommended to consider these changes while planning the deployment.

1.1 Compatibility Matrix

This section lists the versions of added or updated components that are compatible with CNE.

To know the list of all the supported versions, see Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Release Notes.

Release 23.4.6

There is no change in compatibility matrix in this release.

Release 23.4.4

There is no change in compatibility matrix in this release.

Release 23.4.1

The following table lists the versions of added or updated components in release 23.4.1.

Table 1-1 Compatibility Matrix for Release 23.4.1

Component Compatibility Version
Network Functions (NF) 23.4.x
Kubernetes 1.27.x

Release 23.4.0

The following table lists the versions of added or updated components in release 23.4.0.

Table 1-2 Compatibility Matrix for Release 23.4.0

Component Compatibility Version
Network Functions (NF) 23.4.0
Kubernetes 1.27.x

1.2 Orchestration

This section provides information about orchestration changes in release 23.4.x.

Release 23.4.6

There is no change in the orchestration in this release.

Release 23.4.4

There is no change in the orchestration in this release.

Release 23.4.1

There is no change in the orchestration in this release.

Release 23.4.0

The following table provides information about orchestration changes in release 23.4.0.

Table 1-3 Orchestration 23.4.0

Orchestration Changes (From Release 23.3.x to 23.4.0) Status Notes
Support for in-service upgrade No Note: CNE 23.4.0 is an installation only release and doesn't support upgrade.

For information about upgrade, see Supported Upgrade Paths.

Changes in the custom_values.yaml file NA NA
Changes in the resource information for custom_values.yaml file NA NA
Changes in the CSAR package NA NA
Changes in Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) policy No No new RBAC policies are added.
Changes in Life Cycle Management (LCM) Operations NA NA
Helm Test Support NA NA

1.3 Resource Requirements

This section lists the added or updated resource requirements in release 23.4.x.

For more information about resource requirements, see Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, Cloud Native Environment User Guide.

Note:

Changes in the resource requirements are highlighted in bold.

Release 23.4.6

There are no updates to resources requirements in this release.

Release 23.4.4

There are no updates to resources requirements in this release.

Release 23.4.1

There are no updates to resources requirements in this release.

Release 23.4.0

The following table lists the added or updated resources in release 23.4.0:

Table 1-4 Resource Requirements 23.4.0

Service CPU Initial Request (m) CPU Limit (m) RAM Initial Request (Mi) RAM Limit (Mi) Instances
Prometheus 2000 4000 16384 16384 2
OpenSearch Master 1000 1000 100 2048 3
OpenSearch Data 1000 4000 16384 101904 (100Gi) 7
OpenSearch Client 1000 3000 100 32609(32Gi) 3
Fluentd OpenSearch 100 500 128 12228(12Gi) 1 per worker node

Note:

The Jaeger Agent service is removed as it is not applicable anymore.