Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

  Practices for SSH Keys Creation 1. First you shall create an SSH key using the Linux VM you have on your computer. The purpose of SSH keys is to provide a Secure Connection to the compute instance. You can also look at the video on Youtube - https://youtu.be/2HnJFOMewJE to understand about SSH Key pair. 2. An SSH Key pair is a unique combination of Public Key and Private key, used to secure the ssh communication between a client and server. The Public Key is uploaded to the Server and the Private Key is used to connect to the server from a client. 3. Login to the Linux VM as the oracle user ( password - oracle) Right click on the Linux VM desktop and click on Open Terminal 4. In the terminal check your current directory using pwd command as given in the screenshot below. 5. Now create a key with the following command 6. If you already have a pair of SSH keys, you can use that also, you don’t need to generate the keys, but its recommended to create it to mak...

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 ...