Oracle Cloud Native Environment (OCNE) Release 2.4 is now available. This release expands Kubernetes support, refreshes Oracle Container Host for Kubernetes (OCK) images, enhances the CLI, and updates a broad set of cloud native applications.

Kubernetes and OCK updates

OCNE 2.4 adds support for Kubernetes 1.35 and 1.34. Updated OCK images are also available for Kubernetes 1.33 and 1.32.

OCK combines the Oracle Linux host operating system and Kubernetes distribution in a single image. Both bootable Qcow2 images and OSTree-based images are available from Oracle Container Registry:

  • container-registry.oracle.com/olcne/ock
  • container-registry.oracle.com/olcne/ock-ostree

Use the image label that corresponds to the Kubernetes version you need—for example, 1.35.

CLI and platform improvements

The OCNE CLI is updated to Release 2.4 and includes several practical improvements:

  • ocne image create supports an additional cluster configuration option.
  • Image upload behavior has been enhanced for Private Cloud Appliance.
  • Image creation now works correctly with locally stored container images.
  • The CLI supports use of the EDITOR environment variable.
  • An issue affecting ocne cluster info with Kubernetes 1.32 clusters has been fixed.
  • An Oracle Linux 10 RPM build is available for the OCNE CLI.

To update an installed CLI, run:

sudo dnf update ocne

Updated application catalog

OCNE 2.4 updates the application catalog with new versions of key cloud native projects, including Cluster API, cert-manager, Ceph CSI, NFS CSI, Dex, Fluent Operator, ingress-nginx, Istio, kube-prometheus-stack, Kubernetes Gateway API CRDs, kube-state-metrics, KubeVirt, MetalLB, Multus, OAuth2 Proxy, OCI Cluster API Provider, OCI Cloud Controller Manager, oVirt CSI Driver, Prometheus Node Exporter, Rook, and Tigera Operator.

The release includes Istio versions from 1.25.5 through 1.30.3, cert-manager through 1.21.0, KubeVirt through 1.8.4, and OCI Cloud Controller Manager 1.35.0.

For the complete version list and technical details, see the official OCNE 2.4.0 release notes, component-version information, and the OCNE 2.4.0 GitHub release.