Oracle Cloud Shell is web based terminal access from Oracle Cloud console. It is free to use and provides access to Linux shell.

Cloud shell is a small VM running a bash shell with pre configured  and pre authenticated OCI-CLI.

It comes with below configurations:

  • Oracle Linux 7.8
  • 8GB RAM
  • 50GB storage
  • 5GB storage for home directory

Purpose:

Using this, you can manipulate all oracle cloud resources in command prompt as OCI CLI.

It also has useful tools and utilities.

      • Git
      • Java
      • Python (2 and 3)
      • SQL Plus
      • kubectl
      • helm
      • maven
      • gradle
      • terraform
      • Ansible

Utilities Using this, You will need to grant access to cloud shell via an IAM policy as each service in OCI integrates with IAM for aunthetication and authorization.

How to invoke it?

Just click the below highlighed button in your Console Home Page. Your cloud shell will be popped up.

 

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