Launching Your First Linux Instance (original) (raw)

In this tutorial, perform the steps to create and connect to an OCI Compute instance. After your instance is up and running, optionally create and attach a block volume.

Key tasks:

• Create a Compartment
• Create a cloud network and subnet that enables internet access
• Create an instance
• Connect to the instance
• (Optional) Create and attach a block volume
• (Optional) Clean up after completing the tutorial

The following figure depicts the components you create in the tutorial.

Before You Begin

To successfully complete this tutorial, you must have the following:

Requirements

• An Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Free Tier account or paid account.
• A MacOS, Linux, or Windows computer with ssh installed. All current versions of each OS include ssh as a default.

Authentication and Authorization

Each service in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure integrates with IAM for authentication and authorization, for all interfaces (the Console, SDK or CLI, and REST API).

An administrator in an organization needs to set up groups , compartments , and policies that control which users can access which services, which resources, and the type of access. For example, the policies control who can create new users, create and manage the cloud network, create instances, create buckets, download objects, and so on. For more information, see Managing Identity Domains. For specific details about writing policies for each of the different services, see Policy Reference.

If you're a regular user (not an administrator) who needs to use the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure resources that the company owns, contact an administrator to set up a user ID for you. The administrator can confirm which compartment or compartments you can use.