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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

OCI Object Storage

In our earlier section, we discussed high-performance, durable, secure, and scalable storage solutions, but OCI has lot more to offer. OCI offers "hot" storage that is frequently accessed and "cold" storage that is less frequently accessed.

These are two different storage tiers that are performant as well, outlined as follows:

  • Object Storage: This tier of storage is what you need when you require fast, immediate, and frequent access to data.
  • Archive Storage: This tier of storage is what you need when you don't require frequent access to data, but the retention period for this type of data is long.

The OCI Object Storage service is an internet-scale, high-performance storage platform. If you think about storing unlimited bytes of unstructured data, such as images, media files, logs, and backups, then this is an ideal solution.

Data in object storage is managed using an application programming interface (API) and standard...