Hello and welcome to this introductory video on Oracle Linux.
This video discusses and demonstrates features of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
After watching this video, you will learn about:
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and its many services
Virtual Cloud Networks
Compute instances, shapes, and images
And finally creating and launching a compute instance
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is a set of complementary cloud services that enable
you to build and run a wide range of applications and services in a highly-available
hosted environment.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers high-performance compute capabilities as physical
hardware instances and storage capacity in a flexible overlay virtual network
that is securely accessible from your on-premises network.
From the dashboard, let's now take a look at compute instances by clicking
on Compute and then Instances.
The Compute Service lets you provision and manage compute hosts, known as instances.
You can launch instances as needed to meet your compute and application requirements.
After you launch an instance, you can access it securely from your computer, restart it,
attach and detach volumes, and terminate it when you're done with it.
Any changes made to the instance's local drives are lost when you terminate it.
Any saved changes to volumes attached to the instance are retained.
Let's now turn to the load balancing service by clicking on Networking and then
Load Balancers.
The Load Balancing Service provides automated traffic distribution from one entry
point to multiple servers reachable from your virtual cloud network (VCN).
The service offers a load balancer with your choice of a public or private IP address,
and provisioned bandwidth.
When creating a load balancer, you have a choice between a basic load balancer
and a network load balancer with high availability.
For now, let's skip creating a load balancer and click cancel and move on to
block volumes.
Again, click on the menu then Storage and Block Volumes.
The Block Volume Service lets you dynamically provision and manage block storage volumes.
You can create, attach, connect and move volumes as needed to meet your storage
and application requirements.
Once attached and connected to an instance, you can use a volume like a regular
hard drive.
Volumes can also be disconnected and attached to another instance without the loss of
data.
Let's now click on create block volume to see the necessary requirements such as
the name of the block volume, the compartment and availability domain, along with
Volume Size and Performance, and Back Up Policies to highlight a few.
Let's click cancel to return to the previous screen.
And we'll now move on to object storage by clicking the main menu then storage then
Object Storage and Archive.
The Object Storage Service offers two distinct storage class tiers to address the
need for performance such as frequently accessed "hot" storage, and less frequently
accessed "cold" storage.
Storage tiers help you maximize performance where appropriate and minimize costs
where possible.
Let's click on create bucket to see the necessary requirements such as bucket name,
default storage tier, encryption, and as an option tags for tagging of a bucket.
Click cancel to return to the previous screen
Let's take a look at file storage by clicking the main menu then storage then
file storage.
The File Storage Service provides a durable, scalable, distributed, enterprise-grade
network file system.
You can connect to a File Storage service file system from any bare metal, virtual
machine, or container instance in your Virtual Cloud Network (VCN).
Click on Create File System to view the necessary information needed such as
file system, export, and mount target information.
Again, click on cancel to return to the previous screen.
And now let's take a look at the database service.
Moving forward once again click on the main menu followed by Oracle Database link
then Autonomous Database.
The Database Service offers autonomous and user-managed Oracle Database solutions.
Autonomous databases are preconfigured, fully-managed environments that are suitable
for either transaction processing or for data warehouse workloads.
User-managed solutions are bare metal, virtual machine, and Exadata DB systems that
you can customize with the resources and settings that meet your needs.
Clicking on the create autonomous database button, you can see some of the
necessary information needed, for example, compartment, display name, and
database name, the workload type and deployment type to name just a few requirements.
Let's return to the previous by clicking on cancel
Now let's look at one more service the audit service by clicking the menu then
Identity and Security then Audi.
The Audit Service automatically records calls to all supported Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
public application programming interface (API) endpoints as log events.
Currently, all services support logging by Audit.
Log events recorded by the Audit service include API calls made by the Oracle
Cloud Infrastructure Console, Command Line Interface (CLI), Software Development
Kits (SDK), your own custom clients, or other Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services.
Let's return to the compute service by clicking on Menu then compute and the instances.
Finally, let's create a compute instance.
First, we need to assign a name to the new instance.
Followed by accepting the current compartment and then changing the availability
domain to AD2.
We'll keep the default image and shape as they are.
Under Networking, we'll stay with the default VCN and subnet.
However, we will not assign a public IPV4 address since this is only a demonstration
for launching a compute instance.
Under SSH keys, let's select No SSH keys since we haven't the need to ssh to
the instance.
Under Boot volume, we'll leave all the options as is.
Now, click Create to finally create and launch our new instance.
It may take a few minutes for our new instance to spin up so a bit of patience
may be necessary.
After a short time, the new compute instance is launched successfully, congratulations!
This of course was a quick method for launching a compute instance while customizations
are offered for creating and launching your own instances as you see fit.
Oracle provides an extensive number of resources which you can use to learn more
about this subject and others.
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This concludes the video.
Thank you for watching.