Welcome to Linux on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Track
This track provides a learning path with step-by-step instructions and guidance for using Linux on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
As a Linux administrator, we walk you through building your first components on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and help you acquire deeper knowledge about Linux and Cloud deployment.
Get started today and see how your Linux administration helps achieve the benefits Linux brings to running your services and applications on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
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Learn to provision and launch compute instances with the cloud web console to support your cloud solution in Oracle Cloud infrastructure.
Learn about these topics:
Create Oracle Linux instance
Create Oracle Autonomous Linux instance
Create Windows instance
Terminate instance
Detach and attach boot volumes
Scale instances
Cloud-init
Terraform
Practice the following Tutorials:
Introduction to Terraform with Oracle Linux
Learn to administer compute instances using a range of tools and solutions provided to support your cloud solution in Oracle Cloud infrastructure.
Learn about these topics:
OCI Utilities
Module streams and profiles
OS Management
Ksplice
GUI and VNC service
Access Windows instances
Oracle VM VirtualBox
Practice the following in a free lab environment:
Migrate Standalone Oracle Autonomous Linux Instances to use OS Management Service
Managing Oracle Linux Module Streams and Profiles with the OS Management Service
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Learn to secure access to instances and manage traffic between virtual networks in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Learn about these topics:
SSH keys
Instance network security
Security lists
Learn to build and administer virtual networks and gateways in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Manage instance networking and interfaces.
Learn about these topics:
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure networks
Create Virtual Cloud Networks
VCN Internet Gateway
Remove a VCN
Add secondary VNIC
OCI Utilities network management
Practice the following in a free lab environment:
Create Virtual Cloud Networks in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
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Learn to discover and administer block volume storage and create shared cluster storage for instances.
Learn about these topics:
Block volumes
OCI Utilities for managing iSCSI storage
iSCSI target and initiator
OCFS2 cluster
Oracle Linux Storage Appliance
File system service
Object storage
Practice the following in a free lab environment:
Use OCI iSCSI Utility on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Configure iSCSI targets and initiators on Oracle Linux on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Create an Oracle Linux Storage Appliance in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Configure an Oracle Cluster File System on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
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Learn to implement KVM virtualization in Oracle Linux instances deployed on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Learn about these topics:
Use Oracle KVM image
Create KVM guest
OCI utilities oci-kvm network and storage
Learn about integrating Oracle VM VirtualBox virtualization with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Learn about these topics:
Integrating VirtualBox with Oracle Cloud Oracle Infrastructure
Create and manage cloud instances from VirtualBox
Import and export virtual machines between VirtualBox and the cloud
Create cloud infrastructure networks from VirtualBox
Watch all the free content here on the Oracle VM VirtualBox Training Track: Oracle VM VirtualBox Training Track
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