Support for service mesh and performance improvements when using the VCN-Native CNI plugin

Enhancements to the OCI VCN-Native Pod Networking CNI plugin now enable:

• Support for service mesh products, such as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Service Mesh, Istio, and Linkerd. Note that support is currently limited to Oracle Linux 7 (Oracle Linux 8 support is planned).
• Improvements to network performance.

You specify the OCI VCN-Native CNI plugin in exactly the same way as before, using the Console, the CLI, and the API.

Note that the enhancements are only available on clusters where worker nodes are running Kubernetes 1.26 (or later).

For more information about the OCI VCN-Native CNI plugin, see Using the OCI VCN-Native Pod Networking CNI plugin for pod networking.