Book Image

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for Solutions Architects

By : Prasenjit Sarkar
Book Image

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for Solutions Architects

By: Prasenjit Sarkar

Overview of this book

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a set of complementary cloud services that enables you to build and run a wide range of applications and services in a highly available hosted environment. This book is a fast-paced practical guide that will help you develop the capabilities to leverage OCI services and effectively manage your cloud infrastructure. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for Solutions Architects begins by helping you get to grips with the fundamentals of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and moves on to cover the building blocks of the layers of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), such as Identity and Access Management (IAM), compute, storage, network, and database. As you advance, you’ll delve into the development aspects of OCI, where you’ll learn to build cloud-native applications and perform operations on OCI resources as well as use the CLI, API, and SDK. Finally, you’ll explore the capabilities of building an Oracle hybrid cloud infrastructure. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to leverage the OCI and gained a solid understanding of the persona of an architect as well as a developer’s perspective.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Section 1: Core Concepts of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Free Chapter
2
Chapter 1: Introduction to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
7
Section 2: Understanding the Additional Layers of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Learning to generate IaC from an existing setup

Terraform Resource Discovery has been created to help you to discover deployed resources within a compartment and then export all of them to Terraform configuration and state files.

The goal of this feature is to generate Terraform configurations for an OCI customer's compartment. The idea is that a customer infrastructure that has been created in one compartment (mainly via the console) can be replicated in other compartments and/or tenancies.

The generated resource configurations should be able to duplicate the user infrastructure across compartments, tenancies, and regions.

This will solve the pain points of customers when they start creating resources using a console but, at a later stage, think of moving to code-based infrastructure deployment, and will help them to significantly reduce the learning curve of writing HCL from scratch.

To discover resources using ORM, you need to go through the Create Stack workflow...