Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Developer - Exam
Study Notes
17 Jul 2020
Table Of Contents
Preparation
Compartment
Developing Serverless Application with Oracle Functions
OCI Events
Service Communication Patterns
Deployments
Container Engine for Kubernetes
Object Storage
API Gateway
Resource Manager
Key Management
Streaming Service
Preparation
OCI Developer Learning Path - https://learn.oracle.com/ols/learning-path/become-oci-
developer-associate/35644/75248
OCI Practice Labs - https://oracle.github.io/learning-library/oci-library/
OCI Practice Tests - https://learn.oracle.com/ols/module/practice-exam-for-oci-
developer-2020-associate-certification/35644/75770
Compartment
Most resources can be moved between compartments
Atleast one policy required for accessing compartment
Compartments can be up to 6 levels deep
Sub compartments inherit permissions from the hierarchy
Developing Serverless Application with Oracle Functions
Max compute time 120 seconds
Max memory 1024 MB
It is built on enterprise-grade Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and powered by the Fn Project
open source engine.
You can invoke a function that you’ve deployed to Oracle Functions in different ways:
Using the Fn Project CLI.
Using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure CLI.
Using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure SDKs.
Making a signed HTTP request to the function’s invoke endpoint. Every function has
an invoke endpoint.
With Oracle Functions, you can write code in Java, Python, Node, Go, and Ruby
If you encounter an unexpected error when using an Fn Project CLI command, you can
find out more about the problem by starting the command with the string DEBUG=1 and
running the command again.
You have to specify a policy statement to give the Oracle Functions service access to the
network resources in the compartment: Allow service FaaS to use virtual-network-
family in compartment <compartment-name>
OCI Events
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Service Communication Patterns
Service Aggregator Design pattern can be implemented as an aggregator service that
invokes multiple services, collates the results, optionally applies business logic, and
returns a consolidated response to the client
Circuit breaker pattern prevents the service from performing an operation that is likely to
fail. For example, a client service can use a circuit breaker to prevent further remote calls
over the network when a downstream service is not functioning properly
Service choreography is a global description of the participating services, which is
defined by exchange of messages, rules of interaction and agreements between two or
more endpoints. Choreography employs a decentralized approach for service
composition. the decision logic is distributed, with no centralized point.
Deployments
Blue-green deployment is a technique that reduces downtime and risk by running two
identical production environments called Blue and Green. At any time, only one of the
environments is live, with the live environment serving all production traffic. For this
example, Blue is currently live and Green is idle.
Canary deployments are a pattern for rolling out releases to a subset of users or servers.
The idea is to first deploy the change to a small subset of servers, test it, and then roll the
change out to the rest of the servers.
Container Engine for Kubernetes
OCI Service Broker for Kubernetes is an implementation of the Open Service Broker API.
OCI Service Broker for Kubernetes is specifically for interacting with Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure services from Kubernetes clusters.
OCI File Services and OCI Block Volume can be used as persistent volumes.
Persistent volume claims must request a minimum of 50 gigabytes
kubectl explain command is used to list the fields for supported resources
If you provided a public SSH key when creating the node pool in a cluster, the public key
is installed on all worker nodes in the cluster. On UNIX and UNIX-like platforms (including
Solaris and Linux), you can then connect through SSH to the worker nodes using the ssh
utility (an SSH client) to perform administrative tasks.
To create an internal load balancer hosted on a public subnet, add the following
annotation in the metadata section of the manifest file:
service.beta.kubernetes.io/oci-load-balancer-internal: "true"
To create an internal load balancer hosted on a private subnet, add both following
annotations in the metadata section of the manifest file:
service.beta.kubernetes.io/oci-load-balancer-internal: "true" and
service.beta.kubernetes.io/oci-load-balancer-subnet1:
"ocid1.subnet.oc1..aaaaaa....vdfw"
By default, load balancers are created with a shape of 100Mbps.
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Object Storage
storage tier → standard/archive
Can encrypt using oracle managed (or) customer managed keys
API Gateway
Having created an API gateway and deployed one or more APIs on it, you’ll typically want to
limit the rate at which front-end clients can make requests to back-end services. For example,
to:
maintain high availability and fair use of resources by protecting back ends from being
overwhelmed by too many requests
prevent denial-of-service attacks
constrain costs of resource consumption
restrict usage of APIs by your customers’ users in order to monetize APIs
"type": "STOCK_RESPONSE_BACKEND" indicates that the API gateway itself will act as the back
end and return the stock response you define
You can use request policies to:
limit the number of requests sent to back-end services
enable CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) support
provide authentication and authorization
Resource Manager
CONFIGURATION - Information to codify your infrastructure. A Terraform configuration can
be either a solution or a file that you write and upload.
JOB - Instructions to perform the actions defined in your configuration. Only one job at a
time can run on a given stack
Plan - Parses your Terraform configuration and creates an execution plan for the
associated stack. The execution plan lists the sequence of specific actions planned to
provision your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure resources.
Apply - Applies the execution plan to the associated stack to create (or modify) your
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure resources.
Destroy - Releases resources associated with a stack. Released resources are not deleted.
Import State - Sets the provided Terraform state file as the current state of the stack. Use
this job to migrate local Terraform environments to Resource Manager.
STACK - The collection of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure resources corresponding to a given
Terraform configuration. Each stack resides in the compartment you specify, in a single
region; however, resources on a given stack can be deployed across multiple regions.
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Key Management
Waiting period 7-30 days
Streaming Service
Retention → 7 days
Max msg size → 1 MB
Partition → 5 read/s and 1000 emit per/s , read rate 2 MB/s write rate 1 MB/s
CONSUMER - An entity that reads messages from one or more streams.
CONSUMER GROUP - A consumer group is a set of instances which coordinates messages
from all of the partitions in a stream. Instances in a consumer group maintain group
membership through interaction
A consumer can read messages from one or more streams. Each message within a stream
is marked with an offset value, so a consumer can pick up where it left off if it is
interrupted.
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