Posts

Showing posts with the label Lab practices Virtual Machine

Practices for Lab VM Setup ( Unravel OCI Part 1 - Post 1)

Image
Practices for lab VM Setup, for doing practices as given in further Blog Posts 1. You need to have a Linux machine to create ssh keys or use PuttyGen to create the ssh keypair. Keep in mind the practices in future books on rest API , CLI , Terraform, Storage Gateway etc. you will need a Linux Instance (supported version). 2. I have created a Oracle Linux VM that meets all these. Kindly download the Oracle Linux VM available at  www.tisyasolutions.com/oci-vm and is about 8GB in size.  On visiting the url you will see the image as shown below 3. Click on Download to download the VM Image. 4. Hereafter this downloaded file is referred to as the VM Image. 5. You need to download and install VirtualBox from www.virtualbox.org . This book assumes you are using VirtualBox 6.0.4. Though the features may get added in future releases, the core features should be similar to the version used here. 6. Once you have installed VirtualBox, you can set preferences as to ...