Creating a Data Catalog

Create a data catalog in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure tenancy.

• Console
• CLI
• API

• 1. Open the navigation menu and click Analytics & AI. Under Data Lake, click Data Catalog.
  2. On the Data Catalog page, from the left navigation, click Data Catalogs.
  3. On the Data Catalogs page, click Create Data Catalog.
  4. In the Create Data Catalog pane, provide the following information:
     • Create in Compartment: Select the compartment where you want to create the data catalog instance.
     • Name: Enter a name for the data catalog instance. Avoid entering confidential information.
     • (Optional) Click Show Advanced Options to add tags to the data catalog resource. Tags help organize and track all the resources within your tenancy.
  5. Select one of the following options:
     • To create the data catalog, click Create. The data catalog is created and listed in the Data Catalogs page.
     • To create the data catalog later using Resource Manager and Terraform, click Save as Stack to save the resource definition as a Terraform configuration. For more information about saving stacks from resource definitions, see Creating a Stack from a Resource Creation Page.

  To use your newly created data catalog instance, select the instance from the list of data catalogs. The Home tab of the data catalog opens.

• Use the create command and required parameters to create a data catalog:

  oci data-catalog catalog create [OPTIONS]

  For a complete list of flags and variable options for CLI commands, see the CLI Command Reference.

• Run the CreateCatalog operation to create a data catalog.