1.2 Prerequisites

Ensure that your OCI environment meets the deployment requirements.

• An Oracle Cloud account:
  • Sign up for an Oracle Cloud account: How Do I Sign Up?
  • Sign in for the first time: Sign In to Oracle Cloud For the First Time
  • Sign in to Oracle Cloud: Oracle Cloud Account
• Access to an assigned Oracle Cloud tenancy. You must create a compartment in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) in your assigned tenancy where the stack can create resources. See:
  • Setting Up Your Tenancy
  • Managing Compartments
• Ensure that the stack is available in your OCI region.
• Verify that you have permissions to create OCI networking, Compute, Kubernetes, storage, IAM, and optional Autonomous Database resources in the compartment.
• Obtain an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Registry (OCIR) user name and authentication token. See Logging in to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Registry.
• Ensure that your tenancy has sufficient service limits for all required resources, such as file storage, load balancers, and OKE worker nodes. See Minimum Resource Requirements.
• Run the following command to generate a 32-byte encryption key file for MicroTx Workflows.

  openssl rand -hex 32 > encryption.key

  The command creates an encryption key file named encryption.key. Note the name and location of this file as you will provide it later.

• Decide whether you want the stack to deploy a new Autonomous AI Database instance or if you want to connect to an existing instance of Oracle Database 19c or later.
• To use an existing instance of Oracle Database 19c or later:
  • Grant privileges to the database user to create and run stored procedures. See Grant Privileges to Database User
  • Upload the wallet ZIP file, if required, to Object Storage in OCI and create a read-only pre-authenticated request (PAR) URL. See Creating an Object Storage Pre-Authenticated Request. Note down the PAR URL as you will need to provide it later while creating the stack.