How-to guides

These guides provide instructions for using Ubuntu images on Oracle Cloud. They help you do things like deploy virtual machines, enable security features, and perform upgrades.

Using Ubuntu images on Oracle Cloud

You can use Ubuntu images on Oracle Cloud to deploy virtual machines (VMs) or Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) nodes.

• Find Ubuntu images

• Deploy Ubuntu OKE nodes using CLI

• Deploy Ubuntu OKE nodes using Terraform

Enabling security features

Enable security features such as full-disk encryption and confidential computing, or use a bastion to access your VM.

• Use full-disk encryption (FDE)

• Enable confidential computing

• Use a bastion for access

Performing upgrades

Upgrade from one LTS version of Ubuntu to another.

• Upgrade from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal) to 22.04 LTS (Jammy)

• Upgrade from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy) to 24.04 LTS (Noble)