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Oracle® Cloud Native Environment

Getting Started for Release 1.3

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F50643-03

April 2022

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Table of Contents

• Preface
• 1 Oracle Cloud Native Environment Host Requirements
  • 1.1 Hardware Requirements
    • 1.1.1 Kubernetes Control Plane Node Hardware
    • 1.1.2 Kubernetes Worker Node Hardware
    • 1.1.3 Operator Node Hardware
    • 1.1.4 Kubernetes High Availability Requirements
    • 1.1.5 Istio Requirements
  • 1.2 Operating System Requirements
• 2 Oracle Cloud Native Environment Prerequisites
  • 2.1 Enabling Access to the Oracle Cloud Native Environment Packages
    • 2.1.1 Oracle Linux 7
    • 2.1.2 Oracle Linux 8
  • 2.2 Accessing the Oracle Container Registry
    • 2.2.1 Using an Oracle Container Registry Mirror
    • 2.2.2 Using a Private Registry
  • 2.3 Setting up the Operating System
    • 2.3.1 Setting up a Network Time Service
    • 2.3.2 Disabling Swap
  • 2.4 Setting up the Network
    • 2.4.1 Setting up the Firewall Rules
    • 2.4.2 Setting up Other Network Options
  • 2.5 Setting FIPS Mode
• 3 Installing Oracle Cloud Native Environment
  • 3.1 Installation Overview
  • 3.2 Setting up the Nodes
    • 3.2.1 Setting up the Operator Node
    • 3.2.2 Setting up Kubernetes Nodes
  • 3.3 Setting up a Load Balancer for Highly Available Clusters
    • 3.3.1 Setting up Your Own Load Balancer
    • 3.3.2 Setting up the In-built Load Balancer
  • 3.4 Setting up X.509 Certificates for Kubernetes Nodes
    • 3.4.1 Setting up Vault Authentication
    • 3.4.2 Setting up CA Certificates
    • 3.4.3 Setting up Private CA Certificates
  • 3.5 Setting up X.509 Certificates for the externalIPs Kubernetes Service
    • 3.5.1 Setting up Vault Certificates
    • 3.5.2 Setting up CA Certificates
    • 3.5.3 Setting up Private CA Certificates
  • 3.6 Starting the Platform API Server and Platform Agent Services
    • 3.6.1 Starting the Services Using Vault
    • 3.6.2 Starting the Services Using Certificates
  • 3.7 Creating an Environment
    • 3.7.1 Creating an Environment using Certificates Managed by Vault
    • 3.7.2 Creating an Environment using Certificates
  • 3.8 Installing Modules
    • 3.8.1 Creating a Kubernetes Module
    • 3.8.2 Creating an Istio Module
    • 3.8.3 Creating an Operator Lifecycle Manager Module
• 4 Configuring Oracle Cloud Native Environment Services
  • 4.1 Configuring the Platform API Server
  • 4.2 Configuring the Platform Agent

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