Launch Compute instance using OCI-CLI

This is continuation to my previous post of on how to set up OCI-CLI in Oracle Cloud. In this post, i am going to create a compute instance using OCI-CLI.

Before we create a compute instance in Oracle cloud, we need to have basic details in hand.

The list of cli command reference can be retrieved from:-

https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/tools/oci-cli/2.10.12/oci_cli_docs/index.html

1. Compartment id

oci iam user list –compartment-id

2. Availability Domain

[oracle@ebsapp01 .oci]$ oci iam availability-domain list --compartment-id ocid1.compartment.oc1..aaaaaaaallneylfbz5g5l53nnbdnalamdwprd6les4fzmc22ylf2zb5diu4a

{

  "data": [

    {

      "compartment-id": "ocid1.compartment.oc1..aaaaaaaallneylfbz5g5l53nnbdnalamdwprd6les4fzmc22ylf2zb5diu4a",

      "id": "ocid1.availabilitydomain.oc1..aaaaaaaatrwxaogr7dl4yschqtrmqrdv6uzis3mgbnomiagqrfhcb7mxsfdq",

      "name": "WDMA:US-ASHBURN-AD-1"

    },

    {

      "compartment-id": "ocid1.compartment.oc1..aaaaaaaallneylfbz5g5l53nnbdnalamdwprd6les4fzmc22ylf2zb5diu4a",

      "id": "ocid1.availabilitydomain.oc1..aaaaaaaauvt2n7pijol7uqgdnnsoojcukrijtmcltvfwxazmitk235wyohta",

      "name": "WDMA:US-ASHBURN-AD-2"

    },

    {

      "compartment-id": "ocid1.compartment.oc1..aaaaaaaallneylfbz5g5l53nnbdnalamdwprd6les4fzmc22ylf2zb5diu4a",

      "id": "ocid1.availabilitydomain.oc1..aaaaaaaaztunlny6ae4yw2vghp5go2zceaonwp6wiioe3tnh2vlaxjjl2n3a",

      "name": "WDMA:US-ASHBURN-AD-3"

    }

  ]

3. Compute Shape

oci compute shape list --compartment-id ocid1.compartment.oc1..aaaaaaaallneylfbz5g5l53nnbdnalamdwprd6les4fzmc22ylf2zb5diu4a

4. Image list

oci compute image list --compartment-id ocid1.compartment.oc1..aaaaaaaallneylfbz5g5l53nnbdnalamdwprd6les4fzmc22ylf2zb5diu4

5. Subnet id

oci network subnet list --compartment-id ocid1.compartment.oc1..aaaaaaaallneylfbz5g5l53nnbdnalamdwprd6les4fzmc22ylf2zb5diu4a --vcn-id ocid1.vcn.oc1.iad.amaaaaaaj6x6wyqagy3kmguyjlv3ljjbxdov7p2s667mebh6mpcqnigis6wq

Now, we have all the details. We can create a json script and pass the retrieved values generated above 

Json script can be generated using

oci compute instance launch --generate-full-command-json-input >compute_template.json

In this post, i am not going to use the json script. I am just forming the command as below:-

oci compute instance launch --availability-domain "WDMA:US-ASHBURN-AD-3" -c ocid1.compartment.oc1..aaaaaaaallneylfbz5g5l53nnbdnalamdwprd6les4fzmc22ylf2zb5diu4a --shape "VM.Standard.E2.1" --display-name " ebsautoscale3" --image-id ocid1.image.oc1.iad.aaaaaaaasxwd6pbz6py3shznyfxuxexiatoxse7zyd7tz4tmra27wle6ydwq --ssh-authorized-keys-file "/home/oracle/.ssh/id_rsa.pub" --subnet-id ocid1.subnet.oc1.iad.aaaaaaaawridc2p4pnlzpra2rvoijzjevxvewgx7pwjn4ma4wwyu6oo6qala

{

  "data": {

    "agent-config": {

      "is-management-disabled": false,

      "is-monitoring-disabled": false

    },

    "availability-domain": "WDMA:US-ASHBURN-AD-3",

    "compartment-id": "ocid1.compartment.oc1..aaaaaaaallneylfbz5g5l53nnbdnalamdwprd6les4fzmc22ylf2zb5diu4a",

    "dedicated-vm-host-id": null,

    "defined-tags": {},

    "display-name": " ebsautoscale3",

    "extended-metadata": {},

    "fault-domain": "FAULT-DOMAIN-1",

    "freeform-tags": {},

    "id": "ocid1.instance.oc1.iad.anuwcljsj6x6wyqcsl5v4tmkczngxzzi6wsc2wnzzkkvkx2jdx2i545ccjza",

    "image-id": "ocid1.image.oc1.iad.aaaaaaaasxwd6pbz6py3shznyfxuxexiatoxse7zyd7tz4tmra27wle6ydwq",

    "ipxe-script": null,

    "launch-mode": "PARAVIRTUALIZED",

    "launch-options": {

      "boot-volume-type": "PARAVIRTUALIZED",

      "firmware": "UEFI_64",

      "is-consistent-volume-naming-enabled": true,

      "is-pv-encryption-in-transit-enabled": false,

      "network-type": "PARAVIRTUALIZED",

      "remote-data-volume-type": "PARAVIRTUALIZED"

    },

    "lifecycle-state": "PROVISIONING",

    "metadata": {

      "ssh_authorized_keys": "ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQC7yczf1oJki5RnHH97Bb2GDAxkYWc0R2OTPGTAXTmbN9Nsqh0KmckgoUa86rk2B8xT2dR2gezpjOVArva53ebrm3ciWZ3kcKoETG63VNoDdXCYQWIshbAn23Yyi9TLuP03iy9FLtsPT1vWeFq1hnFtqqiSOaUX/h5mcisZRhG9CrsTv+n+2HZjnGHSyf5ocmfBvbmwFBJX+8AnNq8Vj3m7mQb9ITVaFNOOSei5x9t1Rdfk/JhX2aOEmhiVHn/a8yD6OM7t1y02uxx+aZCOAn+2PzV+/R3MGDa5X0QPLPW7G+EJ8F/ek7/tyb2TrPWv8Fs4DRidHpDHsEp/Sy2TmgKb opc@ebsapp01\n"

    },

    "region": "iad",

    "shape": "VM.Standard.E2.1",

    "shape-config": {

      "gpu-description": null,

      "gpus": 0,

      "local-disk-description": null,

      "local-disks": 0,

      "local-disks-total-size-in-gbs": null,

      "max-vnic-attachments": 2,

      "memory-in-gbs": 8.0,

      "networking-bandwidth-in-gbps": 0.7,

      "ocpus": 1.0,

      "processor-description": "2.0 GHz AMD EPYC\u2122 7551 (Naples)"

    },

    "source-details": {

      "boot-volume-size-in-gbs": null,

      "image-id": "ocid1.image.oc1.iad.aaaaaaaasxwd6pbz6py3shznyfxuxexiatoxse7zyd7tz4tmra27wle6ydwq",

      "kms-key-id": null,

      "source-type": "image"

    },

    "system-tags": {},

    "time-created": "2020-05-13T09:30:12.144000+00:00",

    "time-maintenance-reboot-due": null

  },

  "etag": "e2630b3946def3135a89744a2e7c1b97abbf177141aa014ba14ee739b1903f49",

  "opc-work-request-id": "ocid1.coreservicesworkrequest.oc1.iad.abuwcljs5gowykihovdespl5vpj3aczance5nxzxchr2krarhpj573fv4bya"

}

[oracle@ebsapp01 .ssh]$

We can verify it from the console now