Private Cloud Appliance Platform Images
You can use the platform images that are included with Private Cloud Appliance to create instances. You can select from Oracle Linux and Oracle Solaris images.
The platform images provided with Private Cloud Appliance have been specifically configured for use on Private Cloud Appliance only. The following restrictions apply:
- Private Cloud Appliance images can only be used to create instances on Private Cloud Appliance.
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Platform images can't be used to create instances on Private Cloud Appliance.
Only the three most recently published versions of each major distribution are listed in the Compute Web UI and by the compute image list command. After an upgrade, older versions might no longer be listed, but they're still accessible. To use an older image version, use the OCI CLI and specify the OCID of the image. One way to get the OCID of an older image is from the output of the compute instance get command of an instance that's using the image.
To see the Private Cloud Appliance platform images, see Listing Images and Viewing Details.
To create an instance using an image provided with Private Cloud Appliance, see:
Initial User Account
After you create an instance from a platform image, you initially connect to the instance
using ssh with the user account opc. The
opc user has sudo privileges.
The SSH connection is authenticated using your SSH key pair that's used during instance creation. For more information, see Connecting to an Instance.
Remote Access
Access to the instance is permitted only over SSH v2 protocol. All other remote access services are disabled.
Image OS Administration
After an image is used to create an instance, the instance OS administration is managed according to the OS type and version. For OSs provided in the platform images, refer to the Oracle Linux and Oracle Solaris documentation available on Oracle Help Center's Operating Environments page.