The purpose of this chapter is to provide a basic understanding of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute service. The OCI compute service is an important cloud service that is used to provision virtual or “bare-metal” instances.
Compute instances can be used for different purposes, such as running an Apache Tomcat web server, a Docker engine, a manually installed Oracle Database, or any other application that you would install on your on-premise servers.
Before launching a Compute Instance, you will need ...
