Create a Bastion and port forwarding session in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure aka OCI

Bastion:- Bastion provides restricted and time-limited secure access to a resource which does not have public endpoints and require strict resource access controls. A bastion is logical entities and resides in a public subnet and establishes the network infrastructure needed to connect a user to a target resource in a private subnet. A bastion is …

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Vault and Secrets Management

OCI Vault is a management service which centrally manage the encryption keys that protect  data and the secret credentials which is used to securely access resources  for e.g.  Vault securely stores master encryption keys and secrets You can use the Vault service to create and manage the following resources Vaults: - Vaults are logical entities …

Installation and verify the OS management Service Agent Plug-in using CLI

Login to your compute Instance and check whether the Oracle Cloud Agent is installed sudo yum info oracle-cloud-agent Note:- To install the latest available version of Oracle Cloud Agent.  sudo yum install -y oracle-cloud-agents Check the Oracle Cloud Agent service status (status/stop/restart) sudo systemctl status oracle-cloud-agent.service Check whether Oracle Cloud Agent is enabled and active …

Create and Configure OS Management Service in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure aka OCI

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure OS Management service allows you to manage and monitor updates and patches for the operating system environments on your Oracle Cloud instances, including instances managed by the OS Management Oracle Autonomous Linux service. OS Management Components and Features - Managed Instance:-A Compute instance that uses the OS Management service is referred …

Oracle Cloud aka OCI Network Command Center Services

The OCI Network Command Centre groups together all of OCI's native network observability tools together in one place for easier access and a unified user experience. Visualization and dashboards - Network Visualizer and Inter-Region Latency Troubleshooting and diagnostics - Network path analyser Traffic monitoring - VTAPs and Capture Filter Inter Region Latency The Inter-Region Latency …

Virtual Test Access Points for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure aka OCI

A virtual test access point (VTAP) allows mirroring all traffic to or from a designated source and sending it to a selected target in order to facilitate troubleshooting, security analysis, and data monitoring. If you have multiple VTAPs with an overlapping source configuration, traffic from the VTAP with the more specific source will be mirrored. …

Create Network Load Balancer aka Flexible Network Load Balancer in OCI

Network Load Balancer service Network Load Balancer aka Flexible Network Load Balancer provides automated traffic distribution from one entry point to multiple backend servers in virtual cloud network (VCN). It operates at the connection level and load balances incoming client connections to healthy backend servers based on Layer 3/Layer 4 (IP protocol) data. The service …

Creating a Compute Instance from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure custom compute images

OCI uses images to launch instances. Custom image can be used when launching an Compute instance. A custom image of an instance's boot disk can be creted and use it to launch other instances. Instances launched from custom image include the customizations, configuration, and software installed when custom was created. Note :- Custom images do …

Network Path Analyser – Troubleshooting and diagnostic services in OCI

Network Path Analyzer (NPA) provides a unified and intuitive capability to identify virtual network configuration issues that impact connectivity. NPA collects and analyses the network configuration to determine how the paths between the source and the destination is functioning or failing. No actual traffic is sent but configuration is examined and checks the reachability. The …

Policies in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure aka OCI

Policies A policy is a document/statement that specifies who can access Oracle Cloud Infrastructure resources inside Tenancy and how. Policy Attachment Similarly when policies are created then either it must be attached it to a compartment or the tenancy level (root compartment). Which enforces who and how user can access the resources in Oracle cloud …