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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for Solutions Architects

By : Prasenjit Sarkar
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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)
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Section 1: Core Concepts of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
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Section 2: Understanding the Additional Layers of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Chapter 10: Interacting with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Using the CLI/API/SDK

There are many ways to access Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Although OCI has a console where you can create resources, it also offers an Application Programming Interface (API)-first approach. Using the OCI APIs you can do almost everything that you can do from the Console itself. The OCI APIs are nothing but REpresentational State Transfer (REST) API calls over HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS). But that is not all. If you want to use a Software Development Kit (SDK), you can do so to access all OCI APIs, with SDKs for Java, Ruby, Python, Golang, and .NET.

Apart from the REST API and the Console, you also have the option to invoke the CLI to perform the same operation. To invoke the OCI CLI, you have the option to either locally install the CLI binary or you can use OCI Cloud Shell to do the same thing. The benefit of using the OCI CLI from Cloud Shell is that you don't need to use...