ORACLE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE GUIDE
Summary by Damian Ndunda © 2020
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ORACLE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE GUIDE. 1
ORACLE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES. 6
SUPPORTED PLATFORM SERVICES. 11
REST API ENDPOINTS FOR PLATFORM SERVICES. 12
SUPPORT FOR ORACLE APPLICATIONS. 12
CHAPTER INTRODUCTION TO ORACLE CLOUD.. 13
1 ACCESSING ORACLE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE. 13
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console. 13
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure APIs. 13
• Command Line Interface (CLI) 13
2 KEY CONCEPTS AND TERMINOLOGY. 14
REGIONS AND availability domains. 14
VIRTUAL CLOUD NETWORK (VCN) 15
ORACLE CLOUD IDENTIFIER (OCID) 17
3 ORACLE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE FREE TIER. 17
When Your Trial Period Ends. 17
Quickly Launch Your Always Free Resources Using Resource Manager. 18
To provision your Always Free using Terraform and Resource Manager. 18
4 DETAILS OF THE ALWAYS FREE RESOURCES. 19
5 SIX FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS: ORACLE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE FREE TIER. 22
How do I change which resources I want to designate as Always Free?. 22
What happens when my Free Trial expires or my credits are used up?. 22
If I upgrade, do I keep my Free Trial credit balance?. 22
Is it possible to extend my Free Trial?. 22
Is my Free Tier account eligible for support?. 23
Upgrading to a Paid Account 23
CHAPTER: SIGNING UP AND SIGNING IN FOR THE FIRST TIME. 24
1 UNDERSTANDING THE SIGN-IN OPTIONS. 24
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure IAM... 26
Oracle Identity Cloud Service. 26
When to Use Each Sign-In Option. 27
2 SIGNING IN TO THE CONSOLE. 32
List of regional Console URLs. 32
CHAPTER: USING THE CONSOLE. 34
1 UNDERSTANDING COMPARTMENTS. 34
3 UNDERSTANDING COMPARTMENTS. 36
4 NAVIGATING TO ORACLE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES. 38
5 NAVIGATING TO MORE ORACLE CLOUD SERVICES FROM THE CONSOLE. 43
6 FILTERING THE DISPLAYED LIST OF RESOURCES. 46
To filter a list of resources by a defined tag. 46
To filter a list of resources by a free-form tag. 47
CHAPTER: GETTING STARTED WITH THE COMMAND LINE INTERFACE. 51
1 ABOUT THE COMMAND LINE INTERFACE (CLI) 51
Getting Help with Commands. 51
2 WORKING IN A COMPARTMENT. 52
3 CREATING A VIRTUAL CLOUD NETWORK. 54
4 PREPARING TO LAUNCH AN INSTANCE. 67
5 LAUNCHING A LINUX INSTANCE. 70
6 LAUNCHING A WINDOWS INSTANCE. 76
7 CONNECTING TO YOUR INSTANCES. 78
8 CLEANING UP THE TEST ENVIRONMENT. 80
Delete the Virtual Cloud Network. 84
Installing Terraform and the Terraform Provider with Yum.. 85
CHAPTER: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS. 86
1 HOW DO I GET TO MY IDCS CONSOLE?. 86
3 HOW DO I FIND MY TENANCY HOME REGION?. 87
4 WHY CAN'T I SIGN IN USING FIREFOX?. 87
5 WHERE DO I FIND MY TENANCY OCID?. 88
FOREWORD
ORACLE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES
Analytics Cloud empowers business analysts and consumers with modern, AI-powered, self-service analytics capabilities for data preparation, visualization, enterprise reporting, augmented analysis, and natural language processing.
Analytics for Applications empowers you with industry-leading, AI-powered, self-service analytics capabilities for data preparation, visualization, enterprise reporting, augmented analysis, and natural language processing.
API Gateway enables you to create governed HTTP/S interfaces for other services, including Oracle Functions, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Container Engine for Kubernetes, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Registry. API Gateway also provides policy enforcement such as authentication and rate-limiting to HTTP/S endpoints.
Application Migration simplifies the migration of applications from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Archive Storage lets you preserve cold data in a cost-efficient manner.
Audit provides visibility into activities related to your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure resources and tenancy. Audit log events can be used for security audits, to track usage of and changes to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure resources, and to help ensure compliance with standards or regulations.
Big Data provides enterprise-grade Hadoop as a service, with end-to-end security, high performance, and ease of management and upgradeability.
Block Volume provides high-performance network storage capacity that supports a broad range of I/O intensive workloads. You can use block volumes to expand the storage capacity of your compute instances, to provide durable and persistent data storage that can be migrated across compute instances, and to host large databases.
Blockchain Platform Cloud enables creation of managed, permissioned-blockchain networks for secure, real-time data sharing and trusted transactions among business partners.
Cloud Guard is a cloud-native service that helps customers monitor, identify, achieve, and maintain a strong security posture on Oracle Cloud. Use the service to examine your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure resources for security weakness related to configuration, and your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure operators and users for risky activities. Upon detection, Cloud Guard can suggest, assist, or take corrective actions, based on your configuration.
Use Compute to provision and manage compute instances. You can launch an Oracle bare metal compute resource in minutes. Provision instances as needed to deploy and run your applications, just as you would in your on-premises data center. Managed virtual machine (VM) instances are also available for workloads that don't require dedicated physical servers or the high-performance of bare metal instances.
Container Engine for Kubernetes helps you define and create Kubernetes clusters to enable the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
Content and Experience is a cloud-based content hub to drive omni-channel content management and accelerate experience delivery. It offers powerful collaboration and workflow management capabilities to streamline the creation and delivery of content and improve customer and employee engagement.
Data Catalog is a collaborative metadata management solution that lets you be more insightful about the data you have in Oracle Cloud and beyond. With Data Catalog, data consumers can easily find, understand, govern, and track Oracle Cloud data assets.
Data Flow is a fully managed service with a rich user interface to allow developers and data scientists to create, edit, and run Apache Spark applications at any scale without the need for clusters, an operations team, or highly specialized Spark knowledge. As a fully managed service, there is no infrastructure to deploy or manage. It is entirely driven by REST APIs, giving easy integration with applications or workflows.
Data Integration is a fully managed service that helps data engineers and ETL developers with common extract, load, and transform (ETL) tasks such as ingesting data from a variety of data assets, cleansing, transforming, and reshaping that data, and then efficiently loading it to target data assets.
Data Safe is a fully-integrated Cloud service focused on the security of your data. It provides a complete and integrated set of features for protecting sensitive and regulated data in Oracle Cloud databases. Features include Security Assessment, User Assessment, Data Discovery, Data Masking, and Activity Auditing.
Data Science is a platform for data scientists to build, train, and manage machine learning models on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, using Python and open source machine learning libraries. Teams of data scientists can organize their work and access data and computing resources in this collaborative environment.
Data Transfer lets you migrate large volumes of data to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Database lets you easily build, scale, and secure Oracle databases with license-included pricing in your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure cloud. You create databases on DB Systems, which are bare metal servers with local NVMe flash storage. You launch a DB System the same way you do a bare metal instance, you just add some additional configuration parameters. You can then use your existing tools, Recovery Manager (RMAN), and the database CLI to manage your databases in the cloud the same way you manage them on-premises. To get started with the Database, see "Overview of the Database Service,"
Digital Assistant is a platform that allows you to create and deploy digital assistants, which are AI-driven interfaces that help users accomplish a variety of tasks in natural language conversations.
Edge Services encompasses several services that allow you to manage, secure, and maintain your domains and endpoints.
Email Delivery is an email sending service that provides a fast and reliable managed solution for sending highvolume emails that need to reach your recipients. Email Delivery provides the tools necessary to send applicationgenerated email for mission-critical communications such as receipts, fraud detection alerts, multi-factor identity verification, and password resets.
The Events service helps to create automation in your tenancy.
File Storage allows you to create a scalable, distributed, enterprise-grade network file system. File Storage supports NFSv3 with NLM for full POSIX semantics, snapshots capabilities, and data at-rest encryption.
The Functions service helps you build and deploy applications and functions. You can control access to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure using IAM Service. Create and manage compartments, users, groups, and the policies that define permissions on resources.
Oracle Integration is a fully managed, preconfigured environment where you can integrate your applications, automate processes, gain insight into your business processes, create visual applications, and support B2B integrations. Use integrations to design, monitor, and manage connections between your applications, selecting from our portfolio of over 60 adapters to connect with Oracle and third-party applications.
Load Balancing allows you to create a highly available load balancer within your virtual cloud network (VCN) so that you can distribute internet traffic to your compute instances within the VCN.
Logging Analytics is a unified, integrated cloud solution that enables users to monitor, aggregate, index, analyze, search, explore, and correlate all log data from their applications and system infrastructure.
Management Agent is a service that provides low latency interactive communication and data collection between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and any other targets.
Use Monitoring to query metrics and manage alarms. Metrics and alarms help monitor the health, capacity, and performance of your cloud resources. MySQL Database is a fully managed database service that enables organizations to deploy cloud-native applications using the world’s most popular open source database. It is 100% compatible with On-Premises MySQL for a seamless transition to public or hybrid cloud. Leverage your existing Oracle investments and easily integrate MySQL Database Service with Oracle technologies.
Use Networking to create and manage the network components for your cloud resources. You can configure your virtual cloud network (VCN) with access rules and gateways to support routing of public and private internet traffic.
NoSQL Database Cloud is a high performance data store which is distributed, sharded for horizontal scalability, and highly available. It is optimized for applications requiring predictable low latency (such as fraud detection, gaming, and personalized user experience), very high throughput, or extreme ingestion rates (such as event processing, IoT, and sensor data).
Use Notifications to set up topics and subscriptions for broadcasting messages. Topics are used with alarms.
Object Storage provides high throughput storage for unstructured data. Object Storage service enables near infinite storage capacity for large amounts of analytic data, or rich content like images and videos. Block volumes can be backed up to Object Storage for added durability.
OS Management helps you keep operating platforms in your Compute instances secure and up to date with the latest patches and updates from the respective vendor.
Registry helps you store, share, and manage development artifacts like Docker images in an Oracle-managed registry.
Resource Manager helps you install, configure, and manage resources using the "infrastructure-as-code" model.
Search lets you find resources in your tenancy without requiring you to navigate through different services and compartments.
Security Zones let you be confident that your resources comply with Oracle security principles. If any resource operation violates a security zone policy, then the operation is denied.
Service Connector Hub is a cloud message bus platform that offers a single pane of glass for describing, executing, and monitoring interactions when moving data between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services.
Storage Gateway is a cloud storage gateway that lets you connect your on-premises applications with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Applications that can write data to an NFS target can also write data to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage, without requiring application modification to uptake the REST APIs.
Use Streaming to ingest, consume, and process high-volume data streams in real-time.
The Support Management service allows you to create, view, and manage support tickets.
The Tagging service lets you use metadata tags to organize and manage the resources in your tenancy.
The Vault service helps you centrally manage the encryption keys that protect your data and the secret credentials that you use for access to resources.
Use Oracle Cloud VMware Solution to create and manage VMware enabled software-defined data centers (SDDCs) in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. To get started with the VMware solution, see "Oracle Cloud VMware Solution,"
WAF helps you make your endpoints more secure by monitoring and filtering out potentially malicious traffic.
SUPPORTED PLATFORM SERVICES
•
Analytics Cloud
• API Platform Cloud Service
• Autonomous Data Warehouse
• Integration
• Autonomous Mobile Cloud Enterprise
• NoSQL Database Cloud Service
• Oracle Visual Builder
• Content and Experience Cloud
• Data Hub Cloud Service
• Data Integration Platform Cloud
• Database Cloud Service
• Developer Cloud Service
• Event Hub Cloud Service
• Java Cloud Service
• Oracle SOA Cloud Service
Oracle Platform Services are not available in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Government Cloud tenancies.
REST API ENDPOINTS FOR PLATFORM SERVICES
Use the following URL structure to access the REST API endpoints for a Platform Service:
https://<rest_server>/<endpoint_path>
Where:
· <endpoint_path> is the relative path that defines the REST resource. For a list of available paths, refer to the REST API documentation for the specific service.
· <rest_server> is the REST server. Choose the REST server based on the region in which your platform service was created. Refer to the following table.
SUPPORT FOR ORACLE APPLICATIONS
Oracle offers solutions and documentation to make deploying applications on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure easier. Solutions are available for the following applications:
§ Oracle E-Business Suite
§ Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
§ Oracle PeopleSoft
CHAPTER INTRODUCTION TO ORACLE CLOUD
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is a set of complementary cloud services that enable you to build and run a wide range of applications and services in a highly available hosted environment. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers high performance compute capabilities (as physical hardware instances) and storage capacity in a flexible overlay virtual network that is securely accessible from your on-premises network
1 ACCESSING ORACLE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console
The Console is an intuitive, graphical interface that lets you create and manage your instances, cloud networks, and storage volumes, as well as your users and permissions.
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure APIs
The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure APIs are typical REST APIs that use HTTPS requests and responses. Search "Using the API"
• SDKs
Several Software Development Kits are available for easy integration with the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure APIs, including SDKs for Java, Ruby, and Python. For more information, search "Developer Tools" in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure User Guide.
• Command Line Interface (CLI)
You can use a command line interface with some services. For more information, search "Developer Tools”.
• Terraform
Terraform is "infrastructure-as-code" software that allows you to define your infrastructure resources in files that you can persist, version, and share.
• Ansible
Oracle supports the use of Ansible for cloud infrastructure provisioning, orchestration, and configuration management. Ansible allows you to automate configuring and provisioning your cloud infrastructure, deploying and updating software assets, and orchestrating your complex operational processes. For more information, search Getting Started with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Ansible.
• Resource Manager
Resource Manager is an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure service that allows you to automate the process of provisioning your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure resources. Using Terraform, Resource Manager helps you install, configure, and manage resources through the "infrastructure-as-code" model. For more information, search Overview of Resource Manager.
2 KEY CONCEPTS AND TERMINOLOGY
BARE METAL HOST
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides you control of the physical host (“bare metal”) machine. Bare metal compute instances run directly on bare metal servers without a hypervisor. When you provision a bare metal compute instance, you maintain sole control of the physical CPU, memory, and network interface card (NIC).
REGIONS AND availability domains
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is physically hosted in regions and availability domains. A region is a localized geographic area, and an availability domain is one or more data centers located within a region.
Availability domains are isolated from each other, fault tolerant, and very unlikely to fail simultaneously or be impacted by the failure of another availability domain. When you configure your cloud services, use multiple availability domains to ensure high availability and to protect against resource failure.
REALM
A realm is a logical collection of regions. Realms are isolated from each other and do not share any data. Your tenancy exists in a single realm and has access to the regions that belong to that realm. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure currently offers a realm for commercial regions and two realms for government cloud regions: FedRAMP authorized and IL5 authorized.
CONSOLE
The simple and intuitive web-based user interface you can use to access and manage Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Tenancy
a secure and isolated partition within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure where you can create, organize, and administer your cloud resources.
Compartments
Compartments allow you to organize and control access to your cloud resources. A compartment is a collection of related resources (such as instances, virtual cloud networks, block volumes) that can be accessed only by certain groups that have been given permission by an administrator
Security Zones
A security zone is associated with a compartment. When you create and update cloud resources in a security zone, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure validates these operations against security zone policies.
VIRTUAL CLOUD NETWORK (VCN)
A virtual cloud network is a virtual version of a traditional network—including subnets, route tables, and gateways—on which your instances run. A cloud network resides within a single region but includes all the region's availability domains. Each subnet you define in the cloud network can either be in a single availability domain or span all the availability domains in the region (recommended).
INSTANCE
An instance is a compute host running in the cloud. An Oracle Cloud Infrastructure compute instance allows you to utilize hosted physical hardware, as opposed to the traditional software-based virtual machines
IMAGE
The image is a template of a virtual hard drive that defines the operating system and other software for an instance, for example, Oracle Linux. When you launch an instance, you can define its characteristics by choosing its image.
SHAPE
In Compute, the shape specifies the number of CPUs and amount of memory allocated to the instance. In Load Balancing, the shape determines the load balancer's total pre-provisioned maximum capacity (bandwidth) for ingress plus egress traffic. Available shapes include 100 Mbps, 400 Mbps, and 8000 Mbps.
KEY PAIR
A key pair is an authentication mechanism used by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. A key pair consists of a private key file and a public key file. You upload your public key to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. You keep the private key securely on your computer. The private key is private to you, like a password. Key pairs can be generated according to different specifications. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure uses two types of key pairs for specific purposes:
• Instance SSH Key pair:
This key pair is used to establish secure shell (SSH) connection to an instance. When you provision an instance, you provide the public key, which is saved to the instance's authorized key file. To log on to the instance, you provide your private key, which is verified with the public key.
• API signing key pair:
This key pair is in PEM format and is used to authenticate you when submitting API requests. Only users who will be accessing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure via the API need this key pair.
BLOCK VOLUME
A block volume is a virtual disk that provides persistent block storage space for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure instances. Use a block volume just as you would a physical hard drive on your computer
OBJECT STORAGE
Object Storage is a storage architecture that allow you to store and manage data as objects. Data files can be of any type and up to 50 GB in size. Some typical use cases for Object Storage include data backup, file sharing, and storing unstructured data like logs and sensor-generated data.
BUCKET
A bucket is a logical container used by Object Storage for storing your data and files. A bucket can contain an unlimited number of objects.
ORACLE CLOUD IDENTIFIER (OCID)
Every Oracle Cloud Infrastructure resource has an Oracle-assigned unique ID called an Oracle Cloud Identifier (OCID). This ID is included as part of the resource's information in both the Console and API.
3 ORACLE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE FREE TIER
The Free Trial provides you with $300 of cloud credits that are valid for up to 30 days. You may spend these credits on any eligible Oracle Cloud Infrastructure service.
Getting Started
For security purposes, most users will need a mobile phone number and a credit card to create an account. Your credit card will not be charged unless you upgrade your account.
When Your Trial Period Ends
Paid resources that were provisioned with your credits during your free trial are reclaimed by Oracle unless you upgrade your account.
Always Free Resources
A set of resources that are free of charge for the life of the account.
The following list summarizes the Oracle Cloud Always Free-eligible resources that you can provision in your tenancy:
§ Compute (up to two instances)
§ Autonomous Database (up to two database instances)
§ Load Balancing (one load balancer)
§ Block Volume (up to 100 GB total storage)
§ Object Storage (up to 20 GiB)
§ Vault (up to 20 keys and up to 150 secrets)
Quickly Launch Your Always Free Resources Using Resource Manager
Oracle offers you the ability to automatically create a full set of Always Free resources in a few minutes using the Resource Manager service's sample solutions feature. Solutions are pre-built Terraform configurations that help you easily create sets of resources used in common scenarios using a single, simple workflow.
To provision your Always Free using Terraform and Resource Manager
1. Log into your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure account.
2. Open the navigation menu. Under Solutions and Platform, go to Resource
Manager and click Stacks.
3. Click the Create Stack button to open the Create Stack dialog.
4. In the Create Stack dialog, click Sample Solution.
5. Click Select Solution to browse available solutions.
6. Select the checkbox for Sample E-Commerce Application.
7. Click Select Solution.
8. Optionally, provide a name for the new stack. If you don't provide a
name, a default name is provided on the server.
9. Optionally, provide a description for the stack.
10. Optionally, select a different compartment from your current
compartment in which to create the stack. To do so, select a compartment from
the Create In Compartment drop-down.
11. Click Next to proceed to the Configure Variables panel.
12. The variables displayed in the Configure Variables panel are
auto-populated from the Terraform file that you uploaded. You don't need to
change these variables if you are provisioning your Always Free resources using
the Terraform file provided by Oracle.
13. Click Next to proceed to the Review panel.
14. Verify your stack configuration, then click Create to create
your stack.
4 DETAILS OF THE ALWAYS FREE RESOURCES
Compute
All tenancies get two Always Free Compute virtual machine (VM) instances.
Details of the Always Free Compute instance
•
Shape: VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro
• Processor: 1/8th of an OCPU with the ability to use additional CPU
resources
• Memory: 1 GB
• Networking: Includes one VNIC with one public IP address and up to 480 Mbps
network bandwidth
• Operating System: Your choice of one of the following Always
Free-eligible operating systems:
• Oracle Linux (including Oracle Autonomous Linux)
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux
• CentOS Linux
Database
All tenancies get two Always Free Oracle Autonomous Databases. The Autonomous Databases use shared Exadata infrastructure (meaning Oracle handles the database infrastructure provisioning and maintenance).
Details of the Always Free Oracle Autonomous Database instance
•
Processor: 1 Oracle CPU processor (cannot be scaled)
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
• Database Storage: 20 GB storage (cannot be scaled)
• Workload Type: Your choice of either the transaction processing or data warehouse workload type
• Maximum Simultaneous Database Sessions: 20
Always Free Autonomous Databases can be upgraded to paid instances after provisioning if you need features like more storage or CPU scaling.
Load Balancing
•
Shape: Micro (10 Mbps)
• Listeners: 10
• Virtual Hostnames: 10
• Backend Sets: 10
• Backend Servers: 128
Block Volume
When you provision a Compute instance, the instance automatically receives a 50 GB boot volume for storage. You can also create and attach block volumes to expand the storage capacity of a Compute instance.
Details of the Always Free Block Volume resources
•
100 GB total of combined boot volume and block volume Always Free Block Volume
storage.
• Five total volume backups (boot volume and block volume combined).
You can have a maximum of five Always Free volume backups at any time. This applies to both boot volume and block volume backups. For example, you could have three boot volume backups for your Always Free instance and two block volume backups for your Always Free block volumes.
Object Storage
Details of the Always Free Object Storage resources
If
you have a free account (including trial accounts), Always Free Object Storage
includes the following:
• 20 GiB of combined Object Storage and Archive Storage
• 50,000 Object Storage API requests per month
If you have a paid account, Always Free Object Storage includes the following:
•
10 GiB of Object
Storage
• 10 GiB of Archive Storage
• 50,000 Object Storage API requests per month your usage of the first 20 GiB incurs no
deduction of your initial $300 trial credit balance
If you are using more than the 20 GiB limit when your Free Trial ends, all of your objects will be deleted
Vault
All master encryption keys protected by software are free. All tenancies get 20 key versions of master encryption keys protected by a hardware security module (HSM) and 150 Always Free Vault secrets. You can spread these keys or secrets across any number of vaults in the tenancy, although virtual private vaults are not included in the Always Free resources.
Details of the Always Free Vault resources
•
all key versions of a master encryption key protected by software (across any
number of keys or vaults)
• 20 total key versions of a master encryption key protected by an HSM (across
any number of keys or vaults)
• 150 total Always Free secrets (across any number of vaults).
• 40 secret versions of any given secret (including up to 20 in some form of
active use and 20 pending deletion).
If you have used up your allotment of Always Free secrets, you can release resources by scheduling a secret or secret version for deletion. At minimum, you do have to wait a day before the secret or secret version is deleted.
5 SIX FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS: ORACLE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE FREE TIER
How do I change which resources I want to designate as Always Free?
In short, you cannot. Eligible resources are designated Always Free when they are created. After you provision an Always Free resource, the Always Free status is not transferable to another existing resource. However, you can delete an existing Always Free resource in order to create a new Always Free resource in its place.
What happens when my Free Trial expires or my credits are used up?
When you've reached the end of your 30 day trial, or used all of your Free Trial credits (whichever comes first), you will no longer be able to create new paid resources. However, your account will remain active. Your existing resources will continue to run for a few days, allowing you to upgrade your account and keep your resources before they're reclaimed by Oracle. (Note that reclaimed resources cannot be recovered—they are permanently deleted.) Resources identified as Always Free will not be reclaimed. After your Free Trial expires, you'll continue to be able to use and manage your existing Always Free resources, and create new Always Free resources according to tenancy limits.
If I upgrade, do I keep my Free Trial credit balance?
Yes, if you upgrade during the Free Trial period, you will not be billed until you've reached the end of your 30 day trial, or used all of your Free Trial credits (whichever comes first). You will be notified by email when billing begins.
I get an "out of host capacity" error when I try to create an Always Free Compute instance. What can I do?
An "out of host capacity" error indicates a temporary lack of Always Free shapes in your home region. Oracle is working to provide more capacity, though it might take several days before additional capacity is available in your home region. Wait a while, and then try to launch the instance again.
Is it possible to extend my Free Trial?
If you need additional credits or time, you can schedule a call with an Oracle sales representative using the Upgrade page in the Console. Sales representatives have the authority to extend trials or issue additional credits if appropriate.
Is my Free Tier account eligible for support?
Community support through our forums is available to all customers. Customers using only Always Free resources are not eligible for Oracle Support. Limited support is available to Free Tier accounts with Free Trial credits.
6 GETTING STARTED
• Sign up for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
• Understand Oracle Cloud Infrastructure concepts and terminology
• Follow guided tutorials to:
• Launch your first instance (Linux or Windows)
• Add users
• Put data into object storage
• Create a load balancer
Upgrading to a Paid Account
click theUpgrade link in the banner at the top of the Console web page.
CHAPTER: SIGNING UP AND SIGNING IN FOR THE FIRST TIME
• Contact your Oracle sales representative. Your Oracle sales representative can provide you information about the pricing options available to your company.
• Go to https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/ and sign up for the Oracle Free Trial.
1 UNDERSTANDING THE SIGN-IN OPTIONS
About the Sign In Options
When you sign up for Oracle Cloud, Oracle creates a user for you in two different identity systems, giving you two options to sign in to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
When you want to use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, you can choose which identity provider to sign in through:
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure IAM
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure includes its own identity service, called the Identity and Access Management service, or IAM, for short. A user is created for you in the IAM service with the username and password you selected at sign up. You are granted administrator privileges in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure so you can get started right away with all Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services.
Oracle Identity Cloud Service
Many other Oracle Cloud services, including Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, are integrated with Oracle Identity Cloud Service. When you sign up for an Oracle Cloud account, a second, separate user is created for you in Oracle Identity Cloud Service with the username and password you selected at sign up. You can use this single sign-on option to sign in to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and then navigate to other Oracle Cloud services without reauthenticating. This user has administrator privileges for all the Oracle Cloud services included with your account.
Although the credentials are identical in both systems when your account is created, the users are in separate identity management systems, and you manage them separately. If you change your password in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure IAM, your password in Oracle Identity Cloud Service is not changed, and conversely
When to Use Each Sign-In Option
If you plan to use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services exclusively, it makes sense for you to use your direct sign-in credentials to the IAM service.
If you want to use other Oracle Cloud services that are managed through Oracle Identity Cloud Service, then sign in with your single sign-on credentials.
2 SIGNING IN TO THE CONSOLE
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About the Console URL
Alternatively, you can sign in directly to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure using the Console URL. When you sign up to use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, you receive a customized URL for your organization. For example, https://console.us-ashburn-1.oraclecloud.com/?tenant=CompanyABC
If you instead use the base URL (for example: https://console.us-ashburn-1.oraclecloud.com), you are prompted to specify your tenant (or cloud account name) on the sign-in page, along with your user name and password.
When you're logged in to the Console for one of the commercial realm regions, the browser times out after 60 minutes of inactivity, and you need to sign in again to use the Console.
List of regional Console URLs
•
https://console.ap-chuncheon-1.oraclecloud.com
• https://console.ap-hyderabad-1.oraclecloud.com
• https://console.ap-melbourne-1.oraclecloud.com
• https://console.ap-mumbai-1.oraclecloud.com
• https://console.ap-osaka-1.oraclecloud.com
• https://console.ap-seoul-1.oraclecloud.com
• https://console.ap-sydney-1.oraclecloud.com
• https://console.ap-tokyo-1.oraclecloud.com
• https://console.ca-montreal-1.oraclecloud.com
• https://console.ca-toronto-1.oraclecloud.com
• https://console.eu-amsterdam-1.oraclecloud.com
• https://console.eu-frankfurt-1.oraclecloud.com
• https://console.eu-zurich-1.oraclecloud.com
• https://console.me-jeddah-1.oraclecloud.com
• https://console.sa-saopaulo-1.oraclecloud.com
• https://console.uk-london-1.oraclecloud.com
• https://console.us-ashburn-1.oraclecloud.com
• https://console.us-phoenix-1.oraclecloud.com
• https://console.us-sanjose-1.oraclecloud.com
CHAPTER: USING THE CONSOLE
To access the Console, you must use a supported browser
1 UNDERSTANDING COMPARTMENTS
When you sign in to the Console, you see the home page
• Use the navigation menu in the upper left to navigate to the service pages where you create, manage, and view your cloud resources.
•The Help menu ( ) provides links to the documentation and to Oracle Support.
• Use the Quick Actions menu in the body of the home page to navigate directly to common tasks, like creating a VM instance, setting up a network with a wizard, and setting up a load balancer. Use these links to set up your environment.
• The Start Exploring section provides links to tutorials, developer tools, and blogs that demonstrate how to use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to build solutions
REFERENCES
Oracle Inc (2020) Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Getting Started Guide
Oracle Inc (2020) Oracle Cloud Infrastructure User Guide
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