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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 4: Compute Choices on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

One of the core services from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is the OCI Compute service, which helps you provision and manage compute instances. As it is an on-demand service, you can fulfil your application requirements at any time by launching an instance of your choice. Once you have the instance up and running, you can control it fully. You can access these instances securely and even manage their life cycles, which means you have control over starting, stopping, and deleting these instances.

You can also choose various types of persistence storage that you can attach to these instances, such as block volumes, file storage, object storage, archive storage, and more. Although there are certain high performing NVMe disk-attached instances to help you meet your performance goal, they are lost when you terminate those instances. For those instances, you should add block volumes to back up your data.

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