Oracle Cloud (OCI) - Guided Hands-On Labs

Table of Contents - Oracle OCI - Hands-on Labs

1. Introduction (OCI)

• Creating Free Tier account for Practicing Labs (No Credit Card Required)
• How to Choose your Home Region and How to Change your Region.

2. IAM Basic (OCI)

• Creating a Emergency User Account with full Administrator permissions.
• Creating a user with Administrator permissions to use one compartment only (for daily Use).

3. IAM Policy Updates (OCI)

• Set IAM Policy Granting a User full permissions to use CloudShell (in Public Network).

4. Compartment (OCI)

• Create a Compartment.
• Renaming Compartments.
• Listing Compartments & Getting Compartment's Resources.
• Moving a Compartment.
• Deleting and Recovering Compartments.
• Unable to Delete an Empty Compartment, even when all Resources & Policies are empty .
• Moving Resource Between Compartments.
• Managing a Compartment's Tags and Descriptions.

5. Networking & Compute Basic (OCI)

• How to Choose Cloud ip - CIDR Full History Class A,B,C,D,E.
• Creating VCN & Subnets and How to Choose CIDR.
• Create VCN with Public & Private Subnets using Wizard.
• Listing and Getting Details of VCN & Subnets.
• Renaming VCN [ *not possible using Console, possible Only using CLI or API ].
• Moving a Subnet and VCN to a Different Compartment.
• Editing Subnet.
• Changing, Adding, Removing IPV4 CIDR blocks in VCN and Subnet.
• Deleting VCN and Subnets.

6. Compute Public Instance (OCI)

The 3 majorly used methods
• Create Linux Public Instance with SSH Keypair downloaded from OCI Web Console.
• Create Linux Public Instance with SSH Keypair generated in OCI Cloud Shell CLI.
• Create Linux public instance with SSH Keypair generated in Windows Putty-keygen.

Other methods
• Create Linux public instance with SSH Keypair generated in Linux Terminal.
• Create Linux public instance with SSH Keypair generated in Windows PowerShell.
• Create Linux public instance with SSH Keypair generated on MacOS and Windows Git bash.

7. Working with Compute Public Instance (OCI)

• Stopping, Starting, or Restarting an Instance.
• Extended memory and cores to Instances.
• Editing an Instance.
• Configure your Instances to use different capacity types.
• Create burstable Instances, shielded instances, and confidential instances.
• Replacing a Boot Volume.
• Managing Tags for an Instance.


• Setting Up Contextual Notifications for an Instance.
• Adding Users to an Instance.
• Running Commands on an Instance.
• Disabling Simultaneous Multithreading.
• Getting Instance Metadata.
• Updating Instance Metadata.
• Moving a Compute Instance to a New Host.


• Security Zones.
• Required IAM Policy for Working with Instances.
• Terminating an Instance.

8. Connecting to Public Instance for Administrative Purpose (OCI)

• Use OCI CloudShell Connect to a Public instance created with SSH Keys downloaded from OCI web Console.
• Use OCI CloudShell Connect to a Public instance created with ssh-Keygen command in OCI CloudShell.
• Use OCI CloudShell Connect to a Public instance created with ssh-Keygen command in windows PowerShell.
• Use OCI CloudShell Connect to a Public instance created with ssh-Keygen command in Linux Terminal.
• Use OCI CloudShell Connect to a Public instance created with SSH Keys generated by Putty gen.


• Use Linux Terminal Connect to a Public instance created with SSH Keys downloaded from OCI web Console.
• Use Linux Terminal Connect to a Public instance created with ssh-Keygen command in OCI CloudShell.
• Use Linux Terminal Connect to a Public instance created with ssh-Keygen command in Linux Terminal.
• Use Linux Terminal Connect to a Public instance created with ssh-Keygen command in windows PowerShell.
• Use Linux Terminal Connect to a Public instance created with SSH Keys generated by Putty gen.


• Use PowerShell Connect to a Public instance created with SSH Keys downloaded from OCI web Console.
• Use PowerShell Connect to a Public instance created with ssh-Keygen command in OCI CloudShell.
• Use PowerShell Connect to a Public instance created with ssh-Keygen command in windows PowerShell.
• Use PowerShell Connect to a Public instance created with ssh-Keygen command in Linux Terminal.
• Use PowerShell Connect to a Public instance created with SSH Keys generated by Putty gen.


• Use Putty Connect to a Public instance created with SSH Keys generated by Putty gen.
• Use Putty Connect to a Public instance created with SSH Keys downloaded from OCI web Console.
• Use Putty Connect to a Public instance created with ssh-Keygen command in OCI CloudShell.
• Use Putty Connect to a Public instance created with ssh-Keygen command in windows PowerShell.
• Use Putty Connect to a Public instance created with ssh-Keygen command in Linux Terminal.


• (Port 22) Rules difference in Security List & Network Security Group while Connecting to an Instance.

9. Access Public Instance through Gateways (OCI)

• (Port 80)Create Linux Webserver (NGINIX) & Access it using IPV4 address from any Internet Browser.
• (Port 80)Create Linux Webserver (Apache) & Access it using IPV4 address from any Internet Browser.
• (Port 443) and Internet Gateways.

10. Compute Private Instance (OCI)

• Create a Linux private Instance within a Private Subnet (& try Pinging to it).
• Create a Windows Instance within a Private Subnet.

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