Cloud Native
Oracle Cloud Native services and software help developers build applications using technologies such as Kubernetes, containers, serverless functions, API management and GraalVM for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), hybrid cloud, and multicloud environments.
With these cloud native products, developers can reduce time spent on operational tasks, such as managing Kubernetes clusters, and build applications faster. OCI cloud native offerings ensure deployed applications are more portable and can run on OCI, third-party cloud, and on-premises environments with minimal modification. Complementary OCI AI Services bring pretrained models allowing developers to quickly implement solutions like Oracle Digital Assistant and OCI Anomaly Detection with minimal machine learning knowledge.
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Why choose Oracle Cloud Native services?
Based on open source and standards
Oracle Cloud Native software and services help developers build cloud applications that rely on popular open source projects and specifications like Docker, Kubernetes, Fn Project, OpenAPI, Fluentd, CloudEvents, and GraalVM Native Image. These products provide DevOps teams with the freedom to develop and deploy cloud native applications using the languages, tools, frameworks, and infrastructure that best meet their needs.
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Built-in management capabilities
Using services such as Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE), development teams can focus on building competitive features and spend less time installing, patching, and maintaining infrastructure. Integrations with GitLab, HashiCorp, Jenkins, GitHub, DataDog and many other partners enable DevOps engineers to continue using familiar tools as they adopt OCI.
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Designed for multicloud environments
Multicloud application deployment enables DevOps teams to optimize app performance for customers, spread operational risk across different providers, and get the best cloud quality of service. With projects such as Verrazzano Enterprise Container Platform, engineers can deploy and manage container workloads on-premises or in the cloud with minimal application changes.
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Better performance and superior pricing
Compared to AWS EC2, OCI Compute can provide up to 3x superior price-performance, benefitting cloud native innovators such as Snap Vision. In addition, flexible shapes allow customers to right-size their virtual machine hosts to exactly the number of cores and memory needed. This capability alleviates the concerns associated with having to choose predefined sizes for virtual machine nodes.
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Pretrained AI models enable rapid app dev
AI services such as Oracle Digital Assistant, Language, and Speech enable developers to engage users across channels, build sentiment analysis, and enable audio-to-text conversion without machine learning expertise. With OCI Anomaly Detection and OCI Forecasting, end users can improve cost savings by flagging critical incidents sooner and predict a variety of metrics, inducing product demand, revenue, and resource requirements.
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Cloud native services for OCI
Oracle-managed services that run on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Managed Kubernetes based on unmodified open source technology
Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) is an open source-based container orchestration service. Customers can deploy Intel, AMD, and Arm-based Ampere virtual and bare metal worker nodes. The managed service supports auto scaling clusters and pods to reduce the time and cost to build modern cloud native applications.
Features
- Oracle-managed Kubernetes that’s certified by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
- Built-in Node Doctor to simplify troubleshooting
- Advanced security (private clusters, encryption, IAM authorization, image signing, scanning, deployment authorization, etc.)
- Ability to quickly create clusters on both bare metal and virtual machines
- Full REST API and CLI
- Compliance (HIPAA, SOC2, etc.)
- Free cluster management
- Pay only for the resources consumed
- Available in the Oracle Cloud Free Tier
Secure, standards-based managed service for container image management
OCI Container Registry is a Docker HTTP API v2-compliant registry for storing and sharing container images. It is tightly integrated with other OCI services such as Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes and Oracle Identity and Access Management. OCI Container Registry complements two other services: OCI Artifact Registry for storing noncontainer images and OCI Compute for storing compute images.
Features
- Open standards-based
- Programmatic access (API and CLI)
- Ability to access images over private or external networks
- Works with Visual Builder Studio and other build-automation tools
- Highly durable and available through automatic replication
- Available in the Oracle Cloud Free Tier
Serverless platform driven by events and APIs
Functions as a service (FaaS) lets developers create, run, and scale serverless applications without managing any infrastructure. The service is interoperable with core OCI services, including OCI Streaming, OCI Events and OCI API Gateway. Functions is secured by Oracle Identity and Access Management.
Features
- Powered by the open source Fn Project that runs in cloud and on-premises environments
- Bring your own Dockerfile for advanced use cases
- Leverage simple pricing and free allocations
- Use with numerous services that emit Oracle Events
- Expose functions as APIs through the OCI API Gateway
- Automate operations by using Functions with OCI Notifications
- Available in the Oracle Cloud Free Tier
Event streaming service that’s compatible with Apache Kafka
Streaming service is a real-time, serverless, Apache Kafka-compatible event streaming platform for developers and data scientists. Streaming is tightly integrated with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Oracle Database, Oracle GoldenGate, and Oracle Integration and Migration. The service also provides out-of-the-box integrations for hundreds of third-party products across categories such as DevOps, databases, big data, and SaaS applications.
Features
- Serverless infrastructure automates management
- Open, standards-based
- Access via Console, REST API, and Apache Kafka API
- Integrates with Object Storage, Monitoring, Functions, and Autonomous Database
- Secure: built-in encryption and privacy
- Cost effective: pay only for throughput and storage
- Available in the Oracle Cloud Free Tier
Open-standards–based service for real-time alerts
Events service tracks resource changes with events that are compliant with the CNCF CloudEvents standard. DevOps engineers can create rules to take action in real time by triggering Functions, writing to streams, or sending Notifications. The service provides APIs for integration with other Oracle IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS products.
Features
- Respond to various resource changes including database events
- Receive PagerDuty, Slack, HTTPS, and email OCI Notifications
- Build serverless applications with Oracle Functions
- Use Events with OCI Streaming for security analysis
- Develop applications across clouds that support CloudEvents
- Access via APIs, CLI, SDKs, Terraform, and console
- Available in the Oracle Cloud Free Tier
Design, build, promote, and secure APIs
Oracle API Management enables the complete API lifecycle for cloud native and SaaS applications, including Oracle Cloud HCM and Oracle Cloud ERP. It supports open standards, including OpenAPI specifications to allow for seamless integrations across Oracle and third-party applications.
Features
- Prototype APIs collaboratively with Apiary
- Validate mock APIs before writing any code
- Deploy APIs with the fully managed Oracle API Gateway
- Promote and consume APIs with Oracle API Platform
- Use with Oracle Functions for serverless APIs
- Control access to APIs by setting up controls
- Available in the Oracle Cloud Free Tier
Build, train, manage, and deploy machine learning models with Oracle AI
OCI AI Services is a collection of pretrained machine learning models that developers can easily add to their applications and business operations. These models have been pretrained on business-oriented data such as images of manufacturing flaws or call center transcripts, and can be further custom-trained on an organization’s own business data for even more accurate results. With OCI AI Services, developers can add machine learning to their apps without slowing down application development.
Features
- Access services through SDKs in a variety of programming languages and REST APIs
- Create conversational experiences through text, chat, and voice interfaces with Oracle Digital Assistant
- Pretrained, customizable models that can be used with, and deployed to, apps
- AI architected for security and tested in critical sectors including government, finance, and nuclear strategy
- Anomaly Detection, built on MSET2 algorithm, with more than 150 patents and used globally
- Specialized algorithms proven in many safety-critical industries
Visibility across cloud native and traditional technology
With its Observability and Management Platform, Oracle provides visibility and machine learning-driven actionable insights to ease management across all layers of the stack deployed on any technology, anywhere. Oracle’s integrated functionality and automation for DevOps monitoring and IT operations management can make it 50% easier to prevent and solve IT problems. These services can improve IT efficiency, identify code level performance issues 10 times faster (PDF), and reduce IT complexity.
Features
- Oracle Application Performance Monitoring: App monitoring that is compatible with OpenMetrics, OpenTracing, Kubernetes, and containers
- OCI Logging: cloud native logging based on Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s Fluentd and CloudEvents projects
- OCI Monitoring: service for metrics and dashboards, with support for Grafana plugins
- OCI Notifications: alerting service with support for third-party messaging providers like Slack and PagerDuty
- Java Management Service: single pane of glass to manage Java deployments
Secure, observe, and connect cloud native applications
OCI Service Mesh is a free, Oracle-managed service that simplifies the development and operation of cloud native applications. It enables security, observability, and network traffic management—without requiring application changes.
Features
- Adopt a zero trust security architecture, automatically and declaratively
- Support canary deployments for applications
- Automatically collect telemetry data including latency, failures, requests, and more
- Monitor and troubleshoot with proxy access logs available in OCI Logging
- Expose applications to external clients through the ingress gateway
- Connect microservices via HTTP, HTTP/2, TCP, or gRPC
- No additional charges for service mesh management
- Available in the Oracle Cloud Free Tier
Self-driving, self-securing, and self-repairing database
Autonomous Database provides a fully autonomous, mission-critical Oracle Database service that runs all workloads, including OLTP, analytics, batch, JSON document, and IoT. It automatically scales, tunes, patches, and secures the database online using machine learning to provide the highest database availability, security, and performance. Elastic serverless architecture runs on extreme performance Exadata infrastructure and reduces capital costs.
Solutions
The world’s #1 open source database in Oracle Cloud
Oracle MySQL HeatWave is a fully managed database service to quickly develop and deploy secure, cloud native applications. For database admins and application developers, it’s the only service that enables them to run OLTP and OLAP workloads directly from their MySQL database. This eliminates the need for the complex, time-consuming and expensive data movement and integration across OLTP and OLAP databases. This service is complemented by other database offerings on OCI, including Oracle Autonomous Database and Marketplace products.
Features
- Includes HeatWave, an in-memory query accelerator architected for massive scalability and performance
- Fully managed database service with automated patching, upgrades, and backup
- 6.5X faster than Amazon Redshift at half the cost, 7X faster than Snowflake at one-fifth the cost, and 1400X faster than Amazon Aurora at half the cost
- Machine learning-based automation with MySQL Autopilot
- Existing MySQL applications work without changes
- Easily integrate with other OCI offerings, including OKE
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Customer successes for Oracle Cloud Native
“We serve the world’s top businesses and we do it at scale. Oracle Cloud will enable us to continue to scale aggressively.”
Leslie Stretch
CEO, Medallia
“Reopening the Pompeii site to tourists after lockdown was tough. With Oracle’s help, we delivered the cloud native mobile solution in just six weeks.”
Alberto Bruni
COO, Archaeological Park of Pompeii
“Having a strong partnership with Oracle is very important, because we sometimes hit limits in our work that Oracle helps us to overcome.”
Frédéric Hemmer
IT Department Head, CERN
“We moved our hosting to Oracle Cloud using managed Kubernetes and saved 40% of our hosting costs. We reinvested that cost savings into GPU shapes and have been able to deliver even more advanced computer vision technology to our customers.”
Jenny Griffiths
Founder and CEO, Snap Vision
“We decided to design and architect our new native SaaS app, CloudVane, on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing at its core from the get-go for fast time to market, low administration and costs, and high performance.”
Davorin Capan
CEO, NEOS
“Having access to the most widely used tools such as Kubernetes is crucial, because startups like us deploy on client clouds. Oracle gives us the flexibility to spin up an instance so our enterprise clients can have the functionality they need.”
Tony Nash
CEO and Founder, Complete Intelligence
“We're moving all of our disaster recovery and ancillary systems to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, which has enabled us to consolidate from four data centers down to two, with savings approaching one million dollars, annually.”
Jason Creson
VP of Infrastructure, Beeline
“The board, management, and our stakeholders are very confident that IFFCO has a robust IT system, one that operates around the clock, pandemic or not. And that system is powered by Oracle.”
A.K. Gupta
Executive Director of IT Service, IFFCO
Cloud native software for multicloud application development and deployment
These products enable hybrid cloud and multicloud architectures, in addition to cloud native application development.
General-purpose container platform
Verrazzano is a general-purpose, open-source container platform used to deploy, secure, observe, and manage all your container workloads, including microservices and Oracle WebLogic Server-based traditional applications. Verrazzano supports Kubernetes clusters across multiple environments, running on-premises and in a variety of public clouds.
Built from a familiar collection of open-source components, such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Istio—coupled with additional open-source bespoke operators and controllers—Verrazzano seamlessly brings together the best open-source technologies.
Features
- Intelligent workload management across Kubernetes running in the cloud or on-premises
- Application lifecycle management with DevOps and GitOps enablement
- Built-in application handling for Java and non-Java applications
- Automated, built-in observability for system and application components, including metrics and log collection
- End-to-end platform security for network traffic, system components, and application components
Cloud Native DevSecOps Simplified
Oracle Cloud Native Environment is a curated set of open source projects that are based on open standards, specifications, and APIs defined by the Open Container Initiative and CNCF. The environment has been tested for interoperability and is supported by Oracle. It delivers a simplified framework for installations, updates, upgrades and configuration of key features for orchestrating microservices. Oracle Linux customers can use these curated projects for free.
Features
- Avoid lock-in with tools from the Open Container Initiative and Cloud Native Computing Foundation
- Use unified management to simplify operations
- Deploy Kata Containers that are ready with Oracle software
- Manage container clusters with the certified Kubernetes module
- Get support for integrated Helm, Prometheus, and Istio
- Included with Oracle Linux Premier Support at no extra charge
Run Oracle WebLogic Server in Kubernetes environments
Use Oracle WebLogic Server for Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) to quickly create your Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) application environment in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, including an Oracle WebLogic Server domain, in a fraction of the time it would normally take on-premises.
Oracle WebLogic Server for OKE is available as a set of applications in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Marketplace. After launching one of these applications, you use a simple wizard interface to configure and provision your domains along with any supporting cloud resources like Kubernetes clusters, file systems, compute instances, networks and load balancers. Each server in the domain runs in a separate container in the Kubernetes cluster.
Features
- Automation to quickly create Oracle WebLogic Server domains on Kubernetes.
- Preconfigured CI/CD pipelines for deploying WebLogic Server applications and patching instances
- Integration with OCI services such as OKE, OCI Container Registry, and OCI Load Balancer
- Option to use Oracle's Universal Credits model (UCM) for billing
- WebLogic Server management: freedom to make any changes to images, domains, and CI/CD pipelines
- WebLogic Kubernetes Operator enables seamless mobility of WebLogic Server from on-premises or third-party clouds to OCI
Simple and fast Java libraries for microservices
Helidon is a collection of Java libraries for writing microservices that run on a fast web core powered by Netty. The project includes Helidon CLI, which lets you easily create a Helidon project by picking from a set of archetypes.
Features
- Simple and fast collection of libraries; there is no extra overhead or bloat
- Helidon supports MicroProfile and provides familiar APIs like JAX-RS, CDI and JSON-P/B
- Helidon Reactive WebServer provides a modern functional programming model
- Helidon WebServer provides a simple to use and fast foundation for your microservices
- Support for health checks, metrics, tracing and fault tolerance
- Helidon SE DB Client provides a unified, reactive API for working with databases in non-blocking way
- GraalVM native-image support comes standard in both Helidon SE and Helidon MP
High-performance multilingual runtime for microservices
GraalVM Enterprise is a high-performance runtime built on Oracle Java SE. It adds new compiler optimizations that deliver the best performance for running Java applications and microservices on premises or in the cloud. It provides a just-in-time (JIT) compiler that accelerates Java applications without code changes. GraalVM enhances the Java ecosystem by offering a compatible and better-performing Java Development Kit (JDK).
Features
- The fastest available Java runtime
- Use on-premises or in the cloud
- All Java SE subscriptions include entitlement to GraalVM Enterprise
- Run polyglot services (Java, JavaScript, Ruby) more efficiently
- GraalVM is supported by all the major microservices frameworks including Helidon, Micronaut, Quarkus, and Spring Boot.
- Eliminate the need for garbage collection, particularly for high
- Dedicated GraalVM Enterprise support
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Why custom applications are moving to cloud native
Justin Smith, Group Marketing Manager, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Application developers are increasingly challenged with business requests that require new or enhanced custom applications. An International Data Corporation (IDC) survey data shows that 75% of developers at large organizations collaborate on 26–500 applications over the course of a year. As app development, deployment, and business priorities continue, developers are progressively utilizing cloud native application development methods to enable faster time to market through DevOps, more portable and easily updated architecture, less technology lock-in, and tapping into managed and automated services.
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