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Use Oracle Marketplace Images on Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure and Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer

Introduction

Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure enables customers to distribute their cloud workloads beyond their Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) tenancy to deliver cloud services and run application workloads at retail, satellite, and other edge locations. As a result, customers can process data faster and closer to their users and at the points of data ingestion to generate timely insights from their data.

Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer (OC3) is fully managed, rack-scale infrastructure that lets organizations consume common OCI services at customer sites,on-premises and sattelite locations. Gain the benefits of cloud automation and economics in your data center by running OCI Compute with storage and networking services on Compute Cloud@Customer. It’s the simplest way for you to run applications on cloud infrastructure while meeting your needs for data residency, security, and low-latency connections to existing resources and real-time operations.

Oracle Marketplace is an online store that offers you images, stacks, container images and helm charts listings solutions from Oracle and its trusted partners. The Oracle Marketplace catalog includes preconfigured compute images that can be deployed as compute instances on Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure and Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer. These preconfigured images accelerate your hybrid cloud deployment at the near and far edge.

Audience

Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure and Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer administrators, developers, and users.

Objective

Prerequisites

Task 1: Launch an OCI Compute Instance using an Oracle Marketplace Image

  1. Navigate to the Oracle Marketplace and find images exportable to Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure/ Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer: In the OCI Console, navigate to Marketplace, All Applications and select the Filters drop-down list for “Compute Cloud@Customer/Roving Edge Compatible”.

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    Note: Verify the image selected matches the desired platform, images should be designated either “For Roving Edge” or “For Compute Cloud@Customer”

  2. Select an image and click Launch Instance.

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  3. Complete the details in the Create compute instance details page and then click Create.

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  4. (Optional) Once the instance is launched, ssh into the instance, and apply any customizations you would like to have on the image.

Task 2: Create and Export a Custom Image

  1. Once the instance is finished provisioning and is in a “Running” state, go to the More actions drop-down list and select Create custom image.

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  2. In the Create custom image pop-up dialog, enter an image name and click Create custom image.

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    Note: Many examples in this tutorial use “roving-edge” in the example names, set the names that make sense for your image and platform.

  3. Navigate to Compute, Custom Images, select the image just created and click Export.

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    Note: Custom images can also be attached to Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure nodes at provisioning, see Attaching a Workload to a Roving Edge Infrastructure Device Node.

  4. In the Export image form, select Export to an Object Storage bucket, select a Bucket, give the image a name and click Export image.

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  5. When the export is finished, navigate to Storage, Object Storage & Archive, Buckets and select the bucket you entered for the export. Scroll to the custom image name you exported, click on the 3 dots on the right and select Create Pre-Authenticated Request.

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  6. In the Create Pre-Authenticated Request form, enter a Name, expiration date and click Create Pre-Authenticated Request.

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  7. In the Pre-Authenticated Request Details dialog, copy the URL in the Pre-Authenticated Request URL field and save it in Notepad as a text file.

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Task 3: Import the Custom Image into Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure Node or Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer

  1. Log in to the Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure WebUI or Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer Console and navigate to Compute, Custom Images and click Import Image. When the form appears, enter the Name, Operating System, Pre-Authenticated Request URL, select the Image Type, and for Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer also select the Compartment, click Import Image.

    • On Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure.

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    • On Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer.

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  2. When the import is complete, navigate to Compute, Instance and click Create Instance.

  3. Fill out the Create Compute Instance form. Include instance name, select the imported custom image and other instance details (Shape, Configure networking, ssh keys and so on) and click Create.

    • On Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure.

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    • On Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer.

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  4. Once your instance is launched, copy the public IP address and login via ssh to finish any customization or application configuration and start using your application at the edge.

    • On Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure.

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    • On Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer.

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