Preface

This document describes Compute Classic command line interface (CLI).

You can use the Compute Classic CLI to view and delete instances, manage storage and networking, and manage SSH keys.

All documentation is applicable to using the CLI on Oracle Cloud and Oracle Cloud Machine, unless otherwise indicated.

Audience

Compute Classic CLI may be used by developers, system administrations, and IT operations personnel to complete the following tasks:

• To control life-cycle management of instances, storage volumes, and other resources

• To complete medium to large scale migrations into Oracle Cloud.

• To script the life-cycle management of instances, such as creating, starting, stopping, and monitoring instances.

A basic understanding of the following is assumed:

• The UNIX command line

• Virtualization technologies

• Networking and disk storage concepts

Related Resources

For more information, see the following documents in the Compute Classic documentation set:

• Using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute Classic

• REST API Reference for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute Classic

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document:

Convention	Meaning
boldface	Boldface type indicates graphical user interface elements associated with an action, or terms defined in text or the glossary.
italic	Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, or placeholder variables for which you supply particular values.
monospace	Monospace type indicates commands within a paragraph, URLs, code in examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.