Configure Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing Classic Instance

To enable vanity URLs for your applications in Exadata Express, you must provision and configure Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing Classic (LBaaS) instance and then enable vanity URLs through the Exadata Express service console.

To configure your LBaaS instance:

1. Provision a new LBaaS instance and make a note of the generated Canonical Host Name. See Creating a Load Balancer and About the Load Balancer IP Addresses and Canonical Host Name in Using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing Classic.

   Note:

   Oracle recommends provisioning your LBaaS instance in close geographical proximity to your Exadata Express instance. For example, for Exadata Express instances in North America data center (US2), select uscom-central-* site for the new LBaaS instance. For Exadata Express instances in EMEA data center (EM2), select eucom-north-* site for the new LBaaS instance.

2. Create the CNAME DNS record for your vanity domain name using the Canonical Host Name value. Check the documentation of your DNS registrar for specific instructions.
3. Upload the digital SSL certificate for your vanity domain name to the LBaaS instance, including all intermediate CA certificates. See Importing a Load Balancer Digital Certificate in Using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing Classic.

   • For Certificate Type, select Server Certificate.

4. Upload the trusted SSL certificate, which you obtained from Exadata Express, to the LBaaS instance. See Importing a Load Balancer Digital Certificate in Using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing Classic.

   • For Certificate Type, select Trusted Certificate.

5. Create the Trusted Certificate policy for the LBaaS instance. See Creating Policies for a Load Balancer and About Load Balancer Policies in Using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing Classic.

   • For Policy Type, select Trusted Certificate.

   • For Trusted Certificate URI, select the public SSL certificate that you obtained from your Exadata Express instance.

6. Create a server pool for the LBaaS instance. See Creating Server Pools for a Load Balancer in Using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing Classic.

   • For Servers, enter your Exadata Express oraclecloudapps.com domain name followed by a colon (:) and port number (443). For example, eecs-mycompany.db.us2.oraclecloudapps.com:443.

7. Create a listener for your LBaaS instance. See Creating Listeners for a Load Balancer in Using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing Classic.

   • For Port, enter 443

   • For Balancer Protocol, select HTTPS

   • For Server Protocol, select HTTPS

   • For Server Pool, select the server pool that you created in Step 6.

   • For Security Certificate, select your SSL server certificate. See Obtaining a Digital Certificate in Getting Started with Oracle Cloud.

   • For Policies, select your Trusted Certificate Policy that you created in Step 4. See Obtain the Public SSL Certificate from Exadata Express.

   • For Virtual Hosts, enter your vanity domain name.

You have successfully configured an LBaaS instance. You are ready to configure your vanity URL in the Exadata Express service console.