7 Compute Instance Concepts

Oracle Private Cloud Appliance lets you provision and manage compute instances.

On Private Cloud Appliance, a compute instance is a virtual machine (VM), which is an independent computing environment that runs on top of physical hardware. The virtualization makes it possible to run multiple compute instances that are isolated from each other.

When you launch a compute instance, you can select the most appropriate type of compute instance for your applications based on characteristics such as the number of CPUs, amount of memory, and network resources.

After you launch a compute instance, you can access it securely from your computer, restart it, attach and detach volumes, and terminate it when you're done with it.

You can create a pool of compute instances and automatically grow or shrink the pool according to criteria that you define.

For step-by-step instructions for managing the Compute service, refer to Compute Instance Deployment in the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance User Guide.

You can create a pool of compute instances (nodes) in a Kubernetes cluster. See Container Engine for Kubernetes and the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Container Engine for Kubernetes Guide.