Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Publishing Community Applications

Share and manage a custom image as a community application on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Marketplace.

With Marketplace, you can take custom images that you imported to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute and publish them to make them available to others in the OCI community. Community applications are custom images provided to the community by the community. Community members can select from community applications when launching an instance, similarly to how they might select an Oracle image, partner image, or other image.
Note

Community applications are only available in the regions they are published.

Anyone who uses community applications does so at their own risk. As with all images, terms of use exist between the publisher of the image and the customer, and you must accept any terms of use agreement associated with an image if you want to use the image.

Community applications appear alongside other images, such as platform images or partner images, to users of Compute during the instance creation work flow. Compute users can select from community images when they select an image to launch an instance. Community applications do not appear in Marketplace alongside applications from publishers in the Oracle PartnerNetwork.

Required IAM Policy

To use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, you must be granted security access in a policy  by an administrator. This access is required whether you're using the Console or the REST API with an SDK, CLI, or other tool. If you get a message that you don’t have permission or are unauthorized, verify with your administrator what type of access you have and which compartment  to work in.

If you're new to policies, see Getting Started with Policies and Common Policies.

For administrators, the following policies enable the creation of community applications in Marketplace for community use and provide access to community applications to users. For any policies, if you want to reduce the scope of access to a particular compartment, specify the compartment instead of the tenancy.

  • The following policy gives the specified example group the ability to list, view, create, update, delete, or move community applications.

    Allow group PublicationAdmins to manage marketplace-publications in tenancy where listing.type='Community'

  • The following policy gives the Marketplace service the ability to do everything with Compute custom images, including listing, viewing, creating, updating, deleting, and moving them.

    Allow service Marketplace to manage instance-images in tenancy

  • The following policy gives the specified example group the ability to list community applications when selecting an image while launching an instance and to see the terms of use agreements associated with the images:

    Allow group CommunityApplicationLaunchers to read marketplace-community-listings in tenancy
Allow group CommunityApplicationLaunchers to inspect compartments in tenancy
Allow group CommunityApplicationLaunchers to read app-catalog-listing in tenancy

If you need to write more restrictive policies, see the policy reference on which these policies were based, Details for the Marketplace Service and Details for the Core Services, as needed.