Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations — Lesson 2: Compute, Images, Autoscaling, Block, File, Object, and Archive Storage

Learning Objectives

• Explain the purpose and operating context of compute shapes, instances, images, boot volumes, and lifecycle.
• Apply instance pools, autoscaling concepts, placement, and fault domains and block volumes, backups, clones, performance levels, and encryption in a controlled environment.
• Validate outcomes and troubleshoot risks involving file storage, object storage tiers, lifecycle, versioning, and use cases.

Detailed Topics

• compute shapes, instances, images, boot volumes, and lifecycle
• instance pools, autoscaling concepts, placement, and fault domains
• block volumes, backups, clones, performance levels, and encryption
• file storage, object storage tiers, lifecycle, versioning, and use cases

Instructor Demonstration

Demonstrate compute shapes, instances, images, boot volumes, and lifecycle for a new cloud team selecting basic OCI services for a secure and resilient application; capture the exact configuration, code, command, transaction, query, dashboard, model, schedule, or report evidence that proves the expected result.

Hands-On Exercise

Complete a controlled Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations exercise covering instance pools, autoscaling concepts, placement, and fault domains and block volumes, backups, clones, performance levels, and encryption; introduce an exception involving file storage, object storage tiers, lifecycle, versioning, and use cases, diagnose it from evidence, apply the smallest reversible correction, and rerun acceptance checks.

1. Confirm scope, prerequisites, identities, dependencies, data, risks, and expected outcome.
2. Perform the course-specific configuration, development, administration, analysis, or business-process workflow.
3. Capture commands, settings, records, logs, screenshots, reports, metrics, or test results.
4. Compare the observed result with acceptance criteria and document corrective or preventive action.

Scenario Analysis

• Identify the technical or business decision and the stakeholders affected by it.
• Compare security, performance, reliability, compliance, cost, usability, and support trade-offs.
• Define rollback, recovery, communication, evidence, ownership, and escalation requirements.

Troubleshooting Guidance

Diagnose issues involving compute shapes, instances, images, boot volumes, and lifecycle, instance pools, autoscaling concepts, placement, and fault domains, block volumes, backups, clones, performance levels, and encryption, file storage, object storage tiers, lifecycle, versioning, and use cases without making an unverified production change. Separate symptoms from causes, gather time-correlated evidence, test a reversible hypothesis, validate the correction, and record recurrence controls.

Validation Checklist

• The requirement, environment, inputs, dependencies, and expected result are documented.
• The result is reproducible and supported by product-specific evidence.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, performance, and operational conditions are reviewed.
• Exceptions, rollback, ownership, support actions, and the next improvement priority are recorded.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can apply Compute, Images, Autoscaling, Block, File, Object, and Archive Storage in a realistic Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations scenario and defend the result with documented evidence.