Chapter 10: Interacting with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Using the CLI/API/SDK

There are many ways to access Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Although OCI has a console where you can create resources, it also offers an Application Programming Interface (API)-first approach. Using the OCI APIs you can do almost everything that you can do from the Console itself. The OCI APIs are nothing but REpresentational State Transfer (REST) API calls over HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS). But that is not all. If you want to use a Software Development Kit (SDK), you can do so to access all OCI APIs, with SDKs for Java, Ruby, Python, Golang, and .NET.

Apart from the REST API and the Console, you also have the option to invoke the CLI to perform ...

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