Self Service Provisioning Process
If your cloud service is enabled for self service provisioning, the provisioning process follows a different path:
1. The account activation is done exactly the same way (as the non-self service provisioning) and requires the same information.
2. Once an account is established you are given access to the OCI Console to manage your cloud account and its services and subscriptions.
3. In OCI Console you are also given access to the Applications Control Planes that allows you to control the provisioning process for the qualifying cloud SaaS services. The control plane linked to your qualified Oracle Energy and Water SaaS Cloud Services is called App Manager.
4. The App Manager control plane enables you to decide when each of your cloud service environments are created and allows you to perform some actions on environments created via App Manager.
5. When you decide to create new cloud service environment, a request is sent to Oracle with the details of the new requested environment for provisioning. At that point the environment is listed in App Manager with a status of "Creating".
6. When provisioning is completed for a given environment it is listed in App Manager with a status of "Active". In addition an email with the details related to that environment can accompany the completion of the provisioning process.
7. The timing of provisioning one or more of the environments you are entitled to, according to your cloud service subscription, is completely in your hands. Your cloud service environments are created based on your explicit requests.
The following sections will describe how to use App Manager in OCI Console and how to manage your provisioning process and environments if your service is enabled for self service provisioning.