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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 2: Understanding Identity and Access Management

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Identity and Access Management (IAM) service gives you full control of your cloud environment, allowing you to decide what type of access you want to give to a group of users. This is done through the unique approach of having an Oracle Cloud ID (OCID) assigned to each resource in your cloud environment.

OCI IAM includes its own IAM service, which can be integrated with an existing Microsoft Active Directory configuration using Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS), along with any SAML 2.0-compliant Identity Provider (IdP). OCI also offers integration with the Oracle Identity Cloud Service for those customers who have previously created IAM entities in that service. This integration enables customers to manage their IAM entities within the OCI console, regardless of whether they have been created within OCI or inside the broader Oracle Cloud Identity Service. The concepts and guidance...