1. REST API for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute Classic
  2. Tasks
  3. VPNEndpoints

Create a VPN Endpoint

post

/vpnendpoint/

This endpoint is not available on Oracle Cloud Machine.

Creates a VPN tunnel between your data center and your Compute Classic site. You can create up to 20 VPN tunnels to your Compute Classic site.

Before you create a VPN tunnel, you must complete the following tasks:

  1. Request the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Networking Classic - VPN for Dedicated Compute service. For more information, see Requesting Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Networking Classic - VPN for Dedicated Compute in Using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute Classic.
  2. Configure your VPN gateway to connect to the Oracle Cloud VPN gateway after the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Networking Classic - VPN for Dedicated Compute service is provisioned. For more information, see Configuring Your VPN Gateway - VPN for Dedicated Compute in Using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute Classic.

Required Role: To complete this task, you must have the Compute_Operations role. If this role isn't assigned to you or you're not sure, then ask your system administrator to ensure that the role is assigned to you in Oracle Cloud My Services. See Modifying User Roles in Managing and Monitoring Oracle Cloud.

Request

Supported Media Types
Header Parameters
Body ()
The request body contains details of the VPN endpoint that you want to create.
Root Schema : VPNEndpoint-post-request
Type: object
The request body contains details of the VPN endpoint that you want to create.
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  • Specify the IP address of the VPN gateway in your data center through which you want to connect to the Oracle Cloud VPN gateway. Your gateway device must support policy-based VPN and IKE (Internet Key Exchange) configuration using pre-shared keys.
  • Enables the VPN endpoint. To start a VPN connection, set to true. A connection is established immediately, if possible. If you do not specify this option, the VPN endpoint is disabled and the connection is not established.
  • Three-part name of the object (/Compute-acme/object).Object names can contain only alphanumeric, underscore (_), dash (-), and period (.) characters. Object names are case-sensitive.
  • Pre-shared VPN key. Enter the pre-shared key. This must be the same key that you provided when you requested the service. This secret key is shared between your network gateway and the Oracle Cloud network for authentication. Specify the full path and name of the text file that contains the pre-shared key. Ensure that the permission level of the text file is set to 400. The pre-shared VPN key must not exceed 256 characters.
  • reachable_routes
    Specify a list of customers subnets (CIDR prefixes) that are reachable through this VPN tunnel. You can specify a maximum of 20 IP subnet addresses. Specify IPv4 addresses in dot-decimal notation with or without mask.
Nested Schema : reachable_routes
Type: array
Specify a list of customers subnets (CIDR prefixes) that are reachable through this VPN tunnel. You can specify a maximum of 20 IP subnet addresses. Specify IPv4 addresses in dot-decimal notation with or without mask.
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Response

Supported Media Types

201 Response

Created. See Status Codes for information about other possible HTTP status codes.
Headers
Body ()
Root Schema : VPNEndpoint-response
Type: object
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Nested Schema : reachable_routes
Type: array
List of subnets (CIDR prefixes) that are reachable through this VPN tunnel.
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Nested Schema : vpn_statistics
Type: object
Additional Properties Allowed
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Statistics of VPN tunnels
Nested Schema : additionalProperties
Type: object
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Examples

cURL Command

The following example shows how to create a VPN endpoint by submitting a POST request on the REST resource using cURL. For more information about cURL, see Use cURL.

Enter the command on a single line. Line breaks are used in this example for readability.

curl -i -X POST
     -H "Cookie: $COMPUTE_COOKIE"
     -H "Content-Type: application/oracle-compute-v3+json"
     -H "Accept: application/oracle-compute-v3+json"
     -d "@requestbody.json"
        https://api-z999.compute.us0.oraclecloud.com/vpnendpoint/

  • COMPUTE_COOKIE is the name of the variable in which you stored the authentication cookie earlier. For information about retrieving the authentication cookie and storing it in a variable, see Authentication.

  • api-z999.compute.us0.oraclecloud.com is an example REST endpoint URL. Change this value to the REST endpoint URL of your Compute Classic site. For information about finding out REST endpoint URL for your site, see Send Requests.

Example of Request Body

The following shows an example of the request body content in the requestbody.json file. 

{
   "psk": "********",
   "name": "/Compute-acme/vpn-to-LA",
   "reachable_routes": [
    "192.168.155.2/24",
    "192.168.135.0/24"
   ],
   "enabled": true,
   "customer_vpn_gateway": "192.168.111.2"
}

Example of Response Body

The following example shows the response body in JSON format.

{
   "status": "UP",
   "psk": "********",
   "name": "/Compute-acme/vpn-to-LA",
   "reachable_routes": [
    "192.168.155.2/24",
    "192.168.135.0/24"
   ],
   "enabled": true,
   "uri": "http://api.oc.example.com/vpnendpoint/Compute-acme/vpn-to-LA",
   "status_desc": "",
   "customer_vpn_gateway": "192.168.111.2"
}
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