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

Chapter 1: Introduction to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud platform that allows consumers to create resources, such as compute instances, databases, networks, containers, functions, and storage, in order to run their applications and workloads. A number of different parties can interact with the OCI cloud. Some of these are actual users, while others are external systems that OCI services communicate with.

So, what do you need from the cloud? Well, an enterprise always looks for scalable, available, and on-demand solutions when they want to move their workload to the cloud. However, for critical enterprise applications, you need no-compromise security and performance guarantees. Remember, you want to offer the same, or better, Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) for your business.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Regions and Availability Domains (ADs)
  • Off-box virtualization
  • Fault domains