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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

Organizing resources using compartments

Compartments are a hierarchical construct, that is, they are a logical boundary that groups resources, each of which can exist in only one compartment. This construct can be used for a number of purposes, including the following:

  • IAM: This is where you can group resources in a compartment for the purpose of restricting access to those resources.
  • Metering/Billing: You can set limits on resource usage within a compartment; alternatively, you can bill the usage within a compartment to a specific contract.
  • Visibility/Compliance/Audits: People in a particular department should only know about the resources in their compartment. You can distinguish between resources/usage in this compartment in order to apply specific governance/compliance rules.
  • Mergers/Acquisitions/Changes: You can move an acquired company's tenancy inside of its new parent company's tenancy; alternatively, you can remove a subsidiary's compartment...