This course is going to walk you through some of the standard day-to-day types of activities that you might find yourself managing in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure ecosystem.
Kick things off with a dive into the automation components, OCI CLI, Terraform and Resource Manager, and Ansible. Next we deal with a few operational tasks associated to custom images, data retention, and security best practices.
At the end of the day, it is critical for the environment to expand with the needs of the application or the customer requirements and at the same time manage costs. Learn to plan your scaling operations, and setup alerting, proper cost management of our environment and troubleshoot any issues encountered.

Audience
Cloud Administrators
System Administrators

Objectives
Use OCI CLI to create, discover, and terminate resources
Create shell scripts using OCI CLI
Use Oracle Resource Manager
Provision a simple set of OCI resources with Ansible
Manage custom images

Topics
Getting Started with Cloud Operations
What Is Cloud Operations?
Operations on OCI
Introduction to Cloud Automation
Cloud Scale Challenges
Automation Basics
Automation Tools
Getting Started with CLI
CLI Command Construct
Configure the CLI
Launch Compute Instance Command
Working with JSON Input Templates
Launch a Compute Instance with the JSON Template
Using a Script to Orchestrate Several Tasks
Using Terraform and Resource Manager
Why Infrastructure as Code
IaC Best Practices
Terraform Configuration and Actions
Managing the State of the Environment
Terraform Local State
Useful Features for Managing IaC with Terraform
Oracle Resource Manager
Creating and Managing Custom Images
Best Practice for Instances
Managing Custom Images
Custom Image with userdata
DR considerations
Import Images/Export Images
Using Ansible to Manage Configuration and Infrastructure on OCI
Configuration Management
How Ansible Works
Installing Ansible
Ad-hoc Commands
Ansible Playbooks
OCI Ansible Modules
Ansible on OCI – Run a Simple Test
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure- Security Best Practices
Shared Security Responsibility Model
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Security Capabilities at a Glance
IAM Best Practices
Securing OCI
Network Security Architecture
Security Testing Policy
Data Backup Operations
What Is RTO and RPO?
Backup Options
Object Storage Lifecycle Management
Backup Strategy Using Storage Gateway
Hybrid Cloud – Tiering, Using Cloud Sync Feature
Scaling Operations
Vertical Scaling
Instance Configuration and Pool
Autoscaling Configurations
Autonomous DB Scaling options
Billing and Cost Management
OCI Cost Analysis
OCI Budgets
Service Limits and Usage
Compartment Quotas and Quota Policies
Cost Management: Best Practices
Troubleshooting and Performance
Subnet or VCN Deletion
Block Volume Performance
Unable to SSH to Instance