Terraform with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Jenkins — Lesson 2: Provisioning OCI Networks, Compute, and Identity

Technical Scope

• VCN, subnets, route tables, gateways, and security lists
• Compute instances, images, shapes, and metadata
• Dynamic groups and IAM policies
• Outputs, dependencies, and connectivity validation

Instructor Demonstration

Provision a VCN and compute instance with scoped access.

Applied Workshop

Build public and private OCI subnet paths and document the traffic controls.

1. Translate the scenario into configuration, access, state, pipeline, or module decisions.
2. Implement the change in a controlled workspace or repository.
3. Capture the plan, logs, outputs, policy results, and post-change checks.
4. Explain one safer or more maintainable alternative and its trade-off.

Validation Standard

Routing, security, identity, and instance metadata match the design.

• The intended target, identity, environment, and state boundary are confirmed.
• The plan or execution evidence contains no unexplained destructive action.
• Security, reliability, maintainability, and operational ownership are reviewed.
• The final result can be reproduced from version-controlled inputs.

Failure Analysis

Resolve quota, shape availability, route, security-list, image, and policy issues.

Learners isolate the smallest verified cause, correct it, rerun the relevant validation step, and record the preventive action in the course improvement log.