Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

About this course

What you will learn

• Navigate an OCI tenancy and organise resources with compartments
• Build virtual cloud networks and control traffic
• Deploy compute instances and attach storage
• Apply identity policies to secure a tenancy
• Describe OCI architecture patterns for availability

Curriculum

1. 01OCI fundamentalsHow Oracle Cloud is structured.+

   • What is cloud computing?
   • Cloud service models and deployment models
   • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure overview and shared responsibility
   • OCI Free Tier and trial overview
   • Creating an Oracle Cloud account and understanding the tenancy
   • Introduction to the OCI Console and Cloud Shell
2. 02OCI Billing and Cost BasicsControl how much you spend+

   • Understanding OCI billing and Cost Analysis
   • OCI Budgets and spending alerts
   • Oracle Cloud Cost Estimator
   • Avoiding unexpected charges and cleaning up lab resources
   • Budgets provide alerts rather than a hard spending cap
3. 03OCI Global InfrastructureKnow the OCI infrastructure worldwide+

   • OCI regions and the home region
   • Availability domains and fault domains
   • Single availability domain and multiple availability domain regions
   • Choosing a region and checking service availability
   • Basic high-availability placement concepts
4. 04OCI Identity and Access ManagementWho can control what+

   • Tenancy, compartments and resource organization
   • Identity domains, users and groups
   • Administrator account precautions and MFA
   • IAM policies and basic policy syntax
   • Permissions, policy scope and least privilege
   • Oracle Cloud Identifiers or OCIDs
   • Dynamic groups and instance principals at an introductory level
5. 05OCI NetworkingBuilding a secure network+

   • Virtual Cloud Network or VCN fundamentals
   • CIDR basics and public versus private IP addresses
   • Regional subnets and public versus private subnets
   • Route tables and Internet Gateway
   • NAT Gateway and Service Gateway
   • Virtual Network Interface Cards or VNICs
   • Network Security Groups or NSGs
   • Security lists and their subnet scope
   • NSGs versus security lists and stateful versus stateless rules
   • Dynamic Routing Gateway or DRG basics
   • Site-to-Site VPN and FastConnect at an introductory level
6. 06OCI ComputeKnow the system power+

   • Compute instances and VM versus bare metal concepts
   • Instance shapes and flexible OCPU and memory sizing
   • Platform images and custom images
   • Launching an Oracle Linux or Ubuntu instance
   • Launching a Windows instance
   • Ephemeral and reserved public IP addresses
   • Connecting with SSH and RDP
   • SSH keys, default users and basic credential handling
   • Start, stop, reboot and terminate operations
   • Instance health, console connections and boot volume basics
7. 07OCI Storage ServicesWhere to store your data+

   • Create and attach an additional block volume
   • Volume attachment, filesystem creation and mounting
   • Block volume and boot volume backups
   • Backup policies and restoring a volume
   • Object Storage namespaces and buckets
   • Standard, Infrequent Access and Archive storage tiers
   • Object versioning and encryption
   • Private buckets, IAM permissions and pre-authenticated requests
   • Object lifecycle policies
   • Publishing static web content on Compute and serving objects from Object Storage
   • File Storage, NFS mount targets and mounting a shared filesystem
8. 08Load Balancing and AutoscalingBalance your load and route traffic+

   • OCI Load Balancer and Network Load Balancer overview
   • Listeners, backend sets and backend servers
   • Health checks and basic traffic distribution
   • Metric-based and schedule-based autoscaling
   • High availability across fault domains or availability domains
9. 09DNS and Web Delivery BasicsThe Domain Routing+

   • DNS fundamentals in OCI
   • OCI DNS zones and common DNS records
   • Public and private DNS concepts
   • Mapping a domain to a public load balancer or instance
   • HTTPS certificates and TLS termination basics
10. 10Databases in OCIKnow about managed database service in OCI+

    • Managed database service overview
    • Creating a MySQL DB system in a private subnet
    • Connecting to MySQL from a Compute instance
    • Database endpoint access, NSGs and security rules
    • Automatic backups, manual backups and restore basics
    • MySQL high availability concepts
11. 11Monitoring Logging and HealthDeal with health before getting sick+

    • OCI Monitoring overview and metric namespaces
    • Compute metrics and Oracle Cloud Agent plugins
    • Creating CPU and memory alarms
    • OCI Notifications topics and email subscriptions
    • Alarm state changes and recovery notifications
    • OCI Logging and basic log exploration
    • OCI Audit and tracking administrative actions
    • Service health and infrastructure maintenance notifications
12. 12OCI Command Line InterfaceDo things the pro way+

    • Installing the OCI CLI
    • Using OCI CLI from Cloud Shell
    • Basic commands for compartments, instances and Object Storage
13. 13Infrastructure as Code OverviewAutomate deployments+

    • What is Infrastructure as Code?
    • Terraform basics and the OCI provider
    • OCI Resource Manager overview
14. 14Practical TroubleshootingLearn to fix things in OCI+

    • Compute SSH and RDP connectivity issues
    • Website not accessible from the Internet
    • Instance unable to access the Internet
    • NSG, security list and operating system firewall issues
    • Incorrect subnet, gateway or route table configuration
    • Block volume attachment and disk space issues
    • Unhealthy load balancer backends
    • Compute-to-MySQL connectivity issues
    • IAM authorization errors and compartment scope
    • Missing monitoring metrics or alarm notifications
    • Introduction to Network Path Analyzer
15. 15Project and Course Wrap UpLet's see what you learned+

    • Design and deploy a small real-world OCI environment
    • Create a compartment and appropriate IAM access
    • Build a VCN with public and private subnets
    • Deploy Compute web servers with appropriate network access
    • Integrate block volumes and Object Storage
    • Configure a load balancer and instance pool where appropriate
    • Connect the application to a private MySQL DB system
    • Configure monitoring alarms and email notifications
    • Perform troubleshooting and an architecture review
    • Document the environment and remove lab resources
    • Guidance on independently learning additional OCI services
16. 16Assessment and Course Completion Certificate+

    • Final knowledge and practical assessment
    • Review of important concepts
    • Course completion certificate from the training provider
    • Guidance for the learner’s next OCI and cloud career steps

Prerequisites

• Basic understanding of servers and networking
• No previous cloud experience required