Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Oracle Autonomous Linux Image

The Oracle Autonomous Linux image is based on Oracle Linux and is used to create Autonomous Linux instances. These instances are managed using the Autonomous Linux service in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Autonomous Linux provides:

  • Automatic daily updates, including zero-downtime Ksplice updates for kernel, OpenSSL, and glibc libraries.
  • Monitoring for critical events, such as a kernel oops or kernel crashes, including collecting and submitting the messages and logs needed to debug and provide a root cause analysis of the event.

For more information, see Autonomous Linux.

Oracle Autonomous Linux Image Details

The following Oracle Autonomous Linux images are available:

Important

Autonomous Linux isn't supported with Red Hat Compatible Kernel.

When you create an Autonomous Linux instance, it gets registered with the Autonomous Linux service, and a minimum set of required software sources (repositories) are automatically attached to the instance. For more information, see Mandatory Software Sources.

To verify the required software sources (repositories) are attached to the Autonomous Linux instance: 

sudo dnf repolist
This system is receiving updates from OSMH.
repo id                                                                repo name
ol8_addons-x86_64                                                      Oracle Linux 8 Addons (x86_64)
ol8_appstream-x86_64                                                   Oracle Linux 8 Application Stream (x86_64)
ol8_baseos_latest-x86_64                                               Oracle Linux 8 BaseOS Latest (x86_64)
ol8_ksplice-x86_64                                                     Ksplice for Oracle Linux 8 (x86_64)
ol8_oci_included-x86_64                                                Oracle Software for OCI users on Oracle Linux 8 (x86_64)
ol8_uekr7-x86_64                                                       Oracle Linux 8 UEK Release 7 (x86_64)
ol8_userspace_ksplice-x86_64                                           Ksplice aware userspace packages for Oracle Linux 8 (x86_64)