The purpose of this blog is to give an overview on what is Cloud Shell and how we can use it in Oracle Cloud. Oracle officially launched Cloud Shell on Feb, 2020(https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/announcing-oracle-cloud-shell) and since then it has been very useful.
Cloud Shell in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is a free browser based command line tool for various types of interactions within your OCI Tenancy. When you start Cloud Shell, a command line is opened in your browser.
The Cloud Shell comes with many tools pre-installed, including:
OCI CLI – the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Command Line tool
Terraform – the infrastructure as code resource provision tool with the OCI provider to manage OCI resources from Terraform templates’
Ansible – to orchestrate, provision and configure your infrastructure on OCI using OCI modules in Ansible Playbooks
Git client – to clone Git repos for example with CLI scripts, Terraform templates or other resources
kubectl – to manage Kubernetes resources
Java, Maven , Docker and many more.
Cloud Shell provides:
A machine to use as a host for a Linux shell which is pre-configured with the latest version of the OCI CLI and several useful tools.
5 GB of storage for your home directory to save your work between Cloud Shell sessions.
A persistent frame of the Console which stays active as you navigate to different pages of the console.
Cloud Shell can be invoked when we go the console and then go to the top right side.
Some of the use case. As CLI is pre configured, we need not have to do the manual setup of installing and setting up the environment. Normally, in cloud shell, since all are pre configured, we can directory invoke the commands.
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