Create Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Native Credentials

To establish cloud storage connection from Data Studio to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Object storage service, you must configure the cloud storage location with your OCI authentication details. You can create Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Native Credentials by using the CREATE_CREDENTIAL procedure of DBMS_CLOUD package.

Create an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Credential Object

To access Object Storage, you must have credentials that you can create via the CREATE_CREDENTIAL procedure of DBMS_CLOUD package. DBMS_CLOUD supports creation of credential objects that contains OCI native authentication. The DBMS_CLOUD procedure stores cloud service credentials in Autonomous Database.

The DBMS_CLOUD.CREATE_CREDENTIAL procedure is overloaded with the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure-related parameters, including: user_ocid, tenancy_ocid, private_key, and fingerprint. This is for using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Signing Keys authentication.

Let us create an OCI native authentication credential when creating an object store credential object. In the OCI native authentication, the DBMS_CLOUD.CREATE_CREDENTIAL procedure includes the following parameters:

Parameter	Description
credential_name	The credential_name parameter must conform to Oracle object naming conventions, which do not allow spaces or hyphens.
user_ocid	Specifies the user's OCID. See Where to Get the Tenancy's OCID and User's OCID for details on obtaining the User's OCID.
tenancy_ocid	Specifies the tenancy's OCID. See Where to Get the Tenancy's OCID and User's OCID for details on obtaining the Tenancy's OCID.
private_key	Specifies the generated private key. Private keys generated with a passphrase are not supported. You need to generate the private key without a passphrase. See How to Generate an API Signing Key for details on generating a key pair in PEM format.
fingerprint	Specifies a fingerprint. After a generated public key is uploaded to the user's account the fingerprint is displayed in the console. Use the displayed fingerprint for this argument. See How to Get the Key's Fingerprint and How to Generate an API Signing Key for more details.

Here is the syntax of the DBMS_CLOUD.CREATE_CREDENTIAL procedure:

DBMS_CLOUD.CREATE_CREDENTIAL (
	credential_name IN VARCHAR2,
	user_ocid       IN VARCHAR2,
	tenancy_ocid    IN VARCHAR2,
	private_key     IN VARCHAR2,
	fingerprint     IN VARCHAR2);

Once you obtain all the necessary inputs and generate your private key, here is a sample of your CREATE_CREDENTIAL procedure:

BEGIN  DBMS_CLOUD.CREATE_CREDENTIAL (    credential_name =>
      'OCI_NATIVE_CRED',    user_ocid              =>
      'ocid1.user.oc1..aaaaaaaatfn77fe3fxux3o5lego7glqjejrzjsqsrs64f4jsjrhbsk5qzndq',    tenancy_ocid           =>
      'ocid1.tenancy.oc1..aaaaaaaapwkfqz3upqklvmelbm3j77nn3y7uqmlsod75rea5zmtmbl574ve6a',    private_key            =>
      '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',    fingerprint            =>
      '4f:0c:d6:b7:f2:43:3c:08:df:62:e3:b2:27:2e:3c:7a');END;/ 
    PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

You can now retrieve the new credentials with the following query:

SELECT owner, credential_name FROM dba_credentials WHERE credential_name LIKE '%NATIVE%';  OWNER CREDENTIAL_NAME----- ---------------
    ADMIN OCI_NATIVE_CRED