Preinstalling the Oracle Cloud Development Kit

Provision a compute instance with the Oracle Cloud Development Kit preinstalled and ready to use.

What's Included

The Oracle Cloud Development Kit template preinstalls the following Oracle Cloud Infrastructure items on the Compute instance:

Instance principal authorization is set up for installed items and the provisioned Compute instance. An upgrade script is also included.

Steps for Using the Oracle Cloud Development Kit

To provision an instance with the development kit

  1. Launch the Create stack page for the Oracle Cloud Development Kit template by selecting this button:

    Deploy to Oracle Cloud

Congratulations! You have provisioned a Compute instance with the Oracle Cloud Development Kit already installed and ready to use. You can now connect to the instance and use the development kit.

Preconfigured Authorization

Instance principal authorization is set up for installed development kit items and the provisioned compute instance. The template provides the following preconfiguration:

  • A dynamic group
  • An IAM policy, with all resource access determined by stack configuration (either tenancy or compartment level)
  • Environment variables set in .bashrc on the Compute instance for CLI, Terraform, and Ansible

For more information about instance principal authorization, see Calling Services from an Instance.