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| | Oracle Linux Automation Manager | | Two new capabilities are now included with Oracle Linux to provide a cost effective, powerful, web-based automation engine with reporting, role-based access control, work flow automation, and job scheduling. Based upon the open source AWX and Ansible projects, they combine to provide Oracle Linux customers modern provisioning, deployment, configuration management, and task automation. |
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Join the Linux 30th birthday party!
Celebrate Linux with us on August 25. Join long-time community members who will share fun facts, historic insights, and future perspectives. Register for the party.
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Oracle Database Templates for Oracle Linux KVM
Deploy Oracle Database on KVM quickly, easily, and correctly using Oracle Linux Templates, for single instances as well as Real Application Clusters. Get the details.
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Ten years of Oracle Ksplice
Oracle Linux users have been keeping their systems more secure and avoiding downtime by using Ksplice for ten years. It currently patches over 25M servers every month. Learn how Ksplice has improved OS security patching over the past decade. Read the article.
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Try Oracle Linux free hands-on labs
Learn dozens of topics about Oracle Linux, from basic administration to application installation to switching from CentOS, with these free hands-on labs. Get hands on.
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Oracle Verrazzano Enterprise Container Platform now available
Oracle Verrazzano Enterprise Container Platform makes it easier for enterprises to improve productivity and innovation, modernize their existing applications, and realize cloud native benefits without lock-in. Get more details.
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CentOS user communities on GitHub
With the changes to CentOS, now is a great time to join fellow users in a community, and two new communities focused on helping users make the transition to Oracle Linux are now available. Details in the blog.
Disaster Recovery features now built into Virtualization Manager
Keeping servers and applications on-line is a daily part of the job, but business owners really want the resilience that comes from local clusters and multi-site failover. Historically this has been much harder to manage, so many businesses don’t have a good HA / DR plan. Learn how the new Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager feature helps companies get this done .
Run High Performance Computing workloads on Arm with Oracle Linux
HPC workloads benefit from lots of cores. Oracle Cloud’s new Arm-based offering, Ampere A1 Compute, combined with Oracle Linux provide consistency and high performance, resulting in an optimal environment for HPC systems. Read the blog.
Get the latest Oracle VM VirtualBox and run the latest upstream Linux kernel
Oracle VM VirtualBox 6.1.26 adds support for latest upstream Linux kernel, and some other enhancements and fixes, too. Details in the blog .
Backup automation now built into Oracle Linux
Use the Relax and Recover feature to configure your Oracle Linux system to automatically back up and restore files, folders, and storage volumes. This document provides reference material for both Oracle Linux 7 and Oracle Linux 8, and provides pointers to additional disaster recovery solutions on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Read now.
Working with Secure Boot and third-party vendor modules
Learn how Secure Boot works when updating the Linux Kernel or adding third-party vendor supplied modules, and how to sign modules and update the necessary key database. Read more in the blog.
Build your own Oracle Linux 8 from source
Oracle Linux is free, and all the sources used to build the operating system, packages, and kernel are freely available. Oracle also provides the tools for developers to self-host a build environment that can rebuild all the packages for the entire operating system. Learn more.
Fast-track Oracle Linux 8 development
The Oracle Linux Cloud Developer image is a ready-to-run image that provides a comprehensive out-of-the-box development platform in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The image enables developers to rapidly preinstall, automatically configure, and deploy a comprehensive development environment that includes the latest tools, choice of popular languages, OCI software development kits (SDKs), database connectors, and more. Get a dev environment.
Simplify your upgrade form Oracle Linux 7 to Oracle Linux 8
Leapp utility, a Linux community framework for updating operating systems and applications, can help you save time and ease administrative efforts when performing an in-place upgrade of a system from Oracle Linux 7 to 8. This article focuses on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, but also links to the on-premises guidance. Leapp into the future!
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| Webinars/Videos |  | | Webinar | Benchmarking the UEK for Oracle Linux
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| Featured Training | There are now ten training videos available, including:
- Introduction to Installing Oracle Linux (9 Min)
- Introduction to the Shell and Command Line (9 Min)
- Introduction to Files and Directories on Oracle Linux (9 Min)
- Introduction to Using vim on Oracle Linux (8 Min)
- Introduction to Users and Groups on Oracle Linux (7 Min)
- Permissions Overview on Oracle Linux (8 Min)
- Software Management on Oracle Linux (7 Min)
- Introduction to Networking on Oracle Linux (7 Min)
- Remote Access Using SSH on Oracle Linux (8 Min)
- Linux Architecture and the Kernel (5 min)
Upgrade your Linux skills!
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Check Point | CloudGuard Network Security
CloudGuard Cloud Network Security, part of the CloudGuard Cloud Native Security platform, provides advanced threat prevention and automated cloud network security through a virtual security gateway, with unified security management across multicloud and on-premises environments. This product is now available for Oracle Private Cloud Appliance. See the SecureKnowledge Solution ID sk 172587 for more details.
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