1 Introduction

1.1 Purpose and Scope

The purpose of this document is to highlight the changes made in Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, Unified Data Repository (UDR) from release 23.4.x to release 24.1.1. These changes may have impact on the customer network operations and must be considered by the customer while planning the deployment.

1.2 Compatibility Matrix

This section lists the versions of added or updated components in release 24.1.x. To know the list of all the supported versions, see Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Release Notes.

Release 24.1.1

There is no change in the compatible matrix for this release.

Release 24.1.0

The following table lists the versions of added or updated components in release 24.1.0.

Table 1-1 Compatibility Matrix

Component Compatibility Version
CNE 24.1.x, 23.4.x, and 23.3.x
cnDBTier 24.1.x, 23.4.x, and 23.3.x
OSO 23.4.x, and 23.3.x
CNC Console 24.1.x
ATS 24.1.0

1.3 Common Services Load Lineup

This section lists the versions of added or updated common services in release 24.1.x. To know the list of all the supported versions, see Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Release Notes.

Release 24.1.1

The following table lists the versions of added or updated common services in release 24.1.1.

Table 1-2 Common Services Load Lineup

Common Service Version
Alternate Route Svc 24.1.8
Ingress Gateway 24.1.8
Egress Gateway 24.1.8

Release 24.1.0

The following table lists the versions of added or updated common services in release 24.1.0.

Table 1-3 Common Services Load Lineup

Common Service Version
Alternate Route Svc 24.1.5
App-Info 24.1.3
ATS Framework 24.1.1
Config-Server 24.1.3
Debug-tool 24.1.1
Ingress Gateway 24.1.5
Egress Gateway 24.1.5
Helm Test 24.1.1
NRF-Client 24.1.5
Perf-Info 24.1.3

1.4 Software Requirements

This section lists the added or updated software required to install UDR release 24.1.x. For more information about software requirements, see Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, Unified Data Repository Installation, Upgrade, and Fault Recovery Guide.

Release 24.1.1

There is no change in the software requirements for this release.

Release 24.1.0

This section lists the updated software requirements to install Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, Unified Data Repository (UDR).

Table 1-4 Software Requirements

Software Chart Version
Kubernetes 1.28.x
Helm 3.13.2

Table 1-5 Additional Software

Software Chart Version Required for
Prometheus 2.44.0 Metrics
Jaeger 1.52.0 Tracing

1.5 Orchestration

This section provides information about orchestration changes in release 24.1.x.

Release 24.1.1

There is no change to the orchestration in this release.

Release 24.1.0

The following table provides information about orchestration changes in release 24.1.0.

Table 1-6 Orchestration

Orchestration Changes Status Notes
Support for in-service upgrade and roll back Yes For more information about upgrade and roll back, see Supported Upgrade and Rollback Paths section.
Changes in the custom-values.yaml file Yes For more information, refer to Helm.
Changes in the resource information for custom-values.yaml file Yes For more information, refer to Resource Requirements.
Changes in the CSAR package Yes
Following changes are made in CSAR package:
  • With this release, we have one customer-specific CSAR package and generic TGZ package.
Note: For more information on specific CSAR changes, contact My Oracle Support.
Changes in Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) policy No No new RBAC policies are added.
Changes in Life Cycle Management (LCM) Operations No No new LCM operations are added.
Helm Test Support Yes UDR supports Helm Test. For more information, see Helm Test section in Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, Unified Data Repository Installation, Upgrade, and Fault Recovery Guide.

1.6 Resource Requirements

This section lists the added or updated resource requirements in Release 24.1.x. For more information about resource requirements, see Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, Unified Data Repository Installation, Upgrade, and Fault Recovery Guide.

Release 24.1.1

There is no resource requirements added in this release.

Release 24.1.0

The performance deployment can support 17.2K N36 + 6.56K Notifications Policy.

Table 1-7 Resource Requirements - Performance

Microservice Name CPU Per Pod Memory Per Pod Ephemeral Storage Per Pod Replicas Total CPU Total Memory Total Ephemeral Storage
ingressgateway-sig 6 CPUs 4 GB 1 GB 9 54 CPUs 36 GB 9 GB
ingressgateway-prov 4 CPUs 4 GB 1 GB 2 8 CPUs 8 GB 2 GB
nudr-drservice 6 CPUs 4 GB 1 GB 17 102 CPUs 68 GB 17 GB
nudr-dr-provservice 4 CPUs 4 GB 1 GB 2 8 CPUs 8 GB 2 GB
nudr-notify-service 4 CPUs 4 GB 1 GB 7 28 CPUs 28 GB 7 GB
egress-gateway 4 CPUs 4 GB 1 GB 4 16 CPUs 16 GB 4 GB
nudr-config 1 CPU 1 GB 1 GB 2 2 CPUs 2 GB 2 GB
nudr-config-server 1 CPU 1 GB 1 GB 2 2 CPUs 2 GB 2 GB
alternate-route 1 CPUs 1 GB 1 GB 2 2 CPUs 2 GB 2 GB
perf-info 1 CPU 1 GB 1 GB 2 2 CPUs 2 GB 2 GB
app-info 1 CPU 1 GB 1 GB 2 2 CPUs 2 GB 2 GB
nudr-nrf-client-nfmanagement 1 CPU 1 GB 1 GB 2 2 CPUs 2 GB 2 GB
nudr-dbcr-auditor-service 1 CPU 1 GB 1 GB 1 1 CPU 1 GB 1 GB
Additional Resources (Hooks/Init/Update Containers) - - - - 12 CPUs 12 GB 12 GB
Total Resources - - - - 241 CPUs 189 GB 66 GB