Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Operations Professional (Udacity)

Offered by Udacity, Oracle,
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Operations Professional (Udacity)

Learn operational activities in the OCI ecosystem. This course covers some of the day-to-day operational activities that you might find yourself managing in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure ecosystem like managing custom images, describing scaling options, billing, managing accounts, troubleshooting, and more.

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This course is going to walk you through some of the day-to-day operational activities that you might find yourself managing in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure ecosystem.

  • Use OCI CLI to create, discover, and terminate resources.
  • Create shell scripts using OCI CLI.
  • Use Oracle Resource Manager.
  • Provision a simple set of OCI resources with Ansible.
  • Manage custom images.
  • Network Security Architecture: VCN, Load balancer, and DNS.
  • Describe scaling options.
  • Billing and account management options in OCI Console.
  • Troubleshoot.

What you will learn

Introduction

  • Interact with OCI: Console, CLI, SDK, and API.
  • Learn about OCI CLI authentication and syntax.

Resource & Configuration Management

  • Understand configuration management.
  • Learn about Ansible with OCI.
  • Study Terraform (configuration, install, and plan).
  • Explore OCI Resource Manager.

Common Operational Activities

  • Explore OS management with Windows and Oracle Linux.
  • Learn the concept of load balancing.
  • Explore OCI Traffic Management Service.
  • Differentiate between block storage and file storage.
  • Explore OCI Object Storage Service.
  • Learn about replication, versioning, retention rules, and security.

Troubleshooting & Disaster Recovery

  • Troubleshoot compute via diagnostic interrrupt.
  • Troubleshoot compute performance.
  • Explore private connectivity: IPSec VPN and FastConnect.
  • Troubleshoot load balancers, backend set, and shared block volumes.
  • Troubleshoot file storage instances and orphaned mount targets.

Identity & Access Management

  • Get introduced to IAM.
  • Differentiate between AuthZ and AuthN.
  • Learn common policies and conditional policies.
  • Learn dynamic groups, federation, and identity domains.

Security Services

  • Explore Cloud Guard (concepts, problems, recipes, and notifications).
  • Learn about Security Zones and Security Advisor.
  • Learn encryption basics.
  • Explore Vaults, keys, and secrets.
  • Explore Bastion, WAF, vulnerability scanning, and certificates.

Observability & Management

  • Get introduced to observability.
  • Learn about monitoring (notification services, metrics, and alarms).
  • Learn about logging services.
  • Access, search, and explore logs.

Billing & Cost Management

  • Understand cost analysis.
  • Calculate and optimize cost (compute, block, file, object storage, and networking).
  • Learn about software licensing models.

Governance & Administration

  • Manage service limits and quotas.
  • Learn about Cloud Advisor and organization management.

Prepare for OCI Operations Professional Certification

  • Prep for certification.
  • Practice sample exam questions.

Continue Your Journey

  • What's next?
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