Practical Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: Infrastructure As a Service, Autonomous Database, Managed Kubernetes, and Serverless

✍ Scribed by Michal Tomasz Jakóbczyk

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 581
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Use this fast-paced and comprehensive guide to build cloud-based solutions on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. You will understand cloud infrastructure, and learn how to launch new applications and move existing applications to Oracle Cloud. Emerging trends in software architecture are covered such as autonomous platforms, infrastructure as code, containerized applications, cloud-based container orchestration with managed Kubernetes, and running serverless workloads using open-source tools. Practical examples are provided.

This book teaches you how to self-provision the cloud resources you require to run and scale your custom cloud-based applications using a convenient web console and programmable APIs, and you will learn how to manage your infrastructure as code with Terraform. You will be able to plan, design, implement, deploy, run, and monitor your production-grade and fault-tolerant cloud software solutions in Oracle's data centers across the world, paying only for the resources you actually use.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is part of Oracle's new generation cloud that delivers a complete and well-integrated set of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) capabilities (compute, storage, networking), edge services (DNS, web application firewall), and Platform as a Service (PaaS) capabilities (such as Oracle Autonomous Database which supports both transactional and analytical workloads, the certified and fully managed Oracle Kubernetes Engine, and a serverless platform based on an open-source Fn Project).

Oracle Autonomous Database which supports both transactional and analytical workloads), and Oracle's certified and managed Container Engine for Kubernetes.

What You Will Learn

• Build software solutions on Oracle Cloud
• Automate cloud infrastructure with CLI and Terraform
• Follow best practices for architecting on Oracle Cloud
• Employ Oracle Autonomous Database to obtain valuable data insights
• Run containerized applications on Oracle’s Container Engine for Kubernetes
• Understand the emerging Cloud Native ecosystem

Who This Book Is For

Cloud architects, developers, DevOps engineers, and technology students and others who want to learn how to build cloud-based systems on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) leveraging a broad range of OCI Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS) capabilities, Oracle Autonomous Database, and Oracle's Container Engine for Kubernetes. Readers should have a working knowledge of Linux, exposure to programming, and a basic understanding of networking concepts. All exercises in the book can be done at no cost with a 30-day Oracle Cloud trial.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
About the Author
About the Technical Reviewer
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Introducing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Computing Characteristics
Hardware and Virtual Resources
Cloud Computing Definitions
Provisioning
Traditional Provisioning Process
Rapid Self-Provisioning Process
Elasticity and Scalability
Delivery as a Service
APIs
SOAP APIs
REST APIs
Cloud Management Plane
Core Cloud Capabilities
Compute
Storage
Networking
Identity and Access Management
Deployment Models
Service Models
Costs
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Regions
Workloads
Services
Billings
Support
SLA
Trial
Summary
Notes
Chapter 2: Building Your First Cloud Application
Planning the Infrastructure
Cloud Account
Project Compartment
Application Design
Cloud Infrastructure
Service Limits
Provisioning the Infrastructure
Compartment
Virtual Cloud Network
Internet Gateway
Route Table
Security List
Subnet
Compute Instance
Testing the Application
SSH Connection
Waiting for cloud-init
Open Ports
API Test
Scaling Out
Custom Image
Subnet in a Different AD
Second Compute Instance
Load Balancer
Cleanup
Summary
Chapter 3: Automating Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Management Plane
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure API
Securing API Calls
API Signing Key
Generate a Keypair
Uploading the Public Key
Preparing for SDK, CLI, and Terraform
SDK
Installation
Configuration
Using the SDK
CLI
Installation
Configuration
Using the CLI
Terraform
Infrastructure as Code
Installation
Configuration
Using Terraform
Provisioning
Infrastructure Code
State
Best Practices
Summary
Chapter 4: Cloud Security and  Project Environments
Projects, Environments, and Systems
Compartments
Users
Groups and Policies
Groups
Policy Statements
Policies
Audit and Search
Searching
Free-Text Search
Structured Queries
Pagination
Auditing
Summary
Chapter 5: Data Storage in the  Oracle Cloud
Buckets and Objects
Working with Objects
Basics
Object Name Prefixes
Listing Objects in Pages
Object Metadata
Concurrent Updates
Programming Object Storage
Multipart Uploads
Instance Principals
Tagging Resources
Dynamic Groups
Accessing Storage from Instances
Public Access
Cleanup
Summary
Chapter 6: Patterns for Compute and Networking
Virtual Networking
Private IPs
Public IPs
Private Subnets, Bastion, and NAT
Security Rules
VCN Peering
Scaling Instances
Instance Pools and Autoscale
Scaling Instance Vertically Up
Immutable Infrastructure
Summary
Chapter 7: Autonomous Database
Relational Data Model
Oracle Database
Autonomous Data Warehouse
SQL Developer Web
Loading Data to ADW
Database Credential
Star Schema
Dimensions
Facts
Database Monitoring
Data Analytics
Cleanup
Summary
Chapter 8: Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes
Containers
Containerize an Application
Development Instance in the Cloud
Docker Runtime
Docker Images
Running Containers
Container Registry
Container Management
Container Orchestration
Kubernetes
Managed Cluster
Connecting As Superuser
Sandbox Namespace
Connecting As Developer
Pods
Deployments and Services
Cleanup
Summary
Chapter 9: Cloud-Native Architecture
Cloud Native
Serverless
Developer VM
Fn Project
Installation and Configuration
Your First Function
UUID Function
Oracle Functions
OCI Networking and Policies
Client Setup
Deploying the UUID Function
Events
Functions and Object Storage
Preparing Infrastructure
Deploying Function
Events As Function Triggers
CloudEvents
Oracle Events
Cleanup
Summary
Index