{
"video": "89CVSTPjfCc",
"seconds": 145,
"title": "Create Compute Instance",
"prior": ["Oracle Cloud Account Setup","Logging in to your Oracle Cloud Account"],
"transcript": "In this video, we'll see how to set up a virtual machine (also known as a \"compute instance\") in the Oracle Cloud. I'll assume you already have an Oracle Cloud Account. If not, check out the videos listed above.\r\n\r\nFrom the \"Get Started\" panel of my Oracle Cloud dashboard, I'll search for \"instance\" and choose the \"instances service\" to get started.\r\n\r\nI'll click on the \"Create instance\" button to build a new virtual machine.\r\n\r\nEvery instance needs a name. It will be helpful to your professor if you use your first and last name, separated by a hyphen, as your machine name. I'll use all lowercase letters for mine.\r\n\r\nWe're going to accept the defaults to be sure our instance qualifies to run as an \"always free\" service.\r\n\r\nThe \"Image and shape\" panel is where you can select the operating system and physical characteristics of your virtual machine such as the amount of memory and how many processors. You can see that there are many options but I'm gonna stick with the defaults. This will build a single-core machine with a gigabyte of RAM, running Oracle Linux, which is a derivative of RedHat Linux.\r\n\r\nTo make a secure remote connection to this instance, I'll need a public-key private-key pair. Fortunately, I can download both of these right here. We'll see how to use these in a subsequent video.\r\n\r\nNow, I'm ready to build the instance, so I'll click \"Create.\" \r\n\r\nIt'll take a minute or two to provision the machine and get it running. After the \"instance\" tile turns green, the machine is running in the cloud. However, it is still running some code to get it fully configured, so it's best to wait about three minutes before trying to access it. To connect, I'll need the private key I downloaded as well as the public IP address that has been assigned to this instance. \r\n\r\nI'll wait a few minutes, then connect in a different video.",
}