Architect a cloud-based infrastructure using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services. Building on your skills obtained from the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Administration Essentials course, explore deeper into the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services to design and implement a secure and scalable cloud solution that meets HA and DR requirements. Design secure networks with disaster recovery options, and explore database capacity planning and advanced database features on OCI. Also explore the gamut of new services on OCI such as Streaming, Events, and Functions.
Prerequisites
Required Prerequisite
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Administration Essentials
Fundamental knowledge of IP Networking
Basic familiarity with the Linux command line
Existing experience managing Linux or Windows Servers
Experience working with n-tier or distributed application
Audience
Cloud Administrator
Implementer
Cloud Architect
Objectives
Make architectural decisions based on OCI best practices and principles
Design highly available, secure networks with disaster recovery options using advanced features of
OCI services
Explore and leverage multiple ways of connecting to cloud networks based on security and
performance requirements
Database Sizing/Capacity Planning for Performance
Oracle Database Cloud Migration Solutions
Understand Metrics, Alarms, monitoring query language
Creating a K8s cluster in OCI using ‘quickstart’
Topics
Identity and Access Management
IAM Basics
Instance Principals
Advanced Policies
Scoping Access with Permissions or API Operations
Federation
Reference IAM Model: Compartments
Virtual Cloud Network
Service Gateway
Private IP as Route Target
VCN Peering
Edge Security
Securing Your VCN
Virtual Firewall Instances
Virtual Cloud Network Best Practices
Connectivity – IPsec VPN
Connectivity Options
Connectivity to On-Premises Network Planning
VPN Basics
IPsec VPN
OCI VPN
OCI VPN Redundancy Models
Typical Networking Scenarios
Public and Private Subnets with VPN
VPN IPsec Connectivity
Connectivity – FastConnect
Why Do You Need Dedicated Connectivity to Cloud?
FastConnect Connectivity Options
FastConnect Use Case Scenarios
Private & Public Peering Network Design
BGP Advertisement and Traffic-flow
FastConnect Redundancy
IPsec VPN and FastConnect
Hybrid Architectures Using FastConnect
Intercloud Connectivity
Multi-Cloud Connectivity Using FastConnect
Compute
Compute: Bare Metal and Virtual Machines
High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Instance Configurations and Pools
Instance Console Connections
Custom Images
Bring Your Own Image (BYOI)
NVIDIA GPU Images
Cloud-Init and Metadata
Instance Metadata
Storage
OCI Storage Services
Local NVMe SSD Devices
Block Volume
File Storage Service
Object Storage Service
Partner Backup Options
Data Backup and Migration Options
OCI Storage Gateway
Data Transfer Service
Load Balancer
Session Persistence
Request Routing (Virtual Hostnames and Path Routing)
SSL Handling
Database
dbcli on OCI Database Systems
Database Sizing Templates
Using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage with Database
Troubleshooting Database Backup Failures
Collecting Database and Diagnostic Information to Resolve Errors
Migrating Databases to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) for Oracle Databases on OCIt