Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Challenge

About OCI

OCI stands for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Oracle’s Second Generation Cloud Infrastructure Truly Built for the Enterprise. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure was built from the ground up to perform better and more consistently than the competition, while costing less at scale.

IaaS - Enterprise Cloud - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

With Oracle Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) you can migrate traditional mission-critical applications and build new cloud native applications with superior price-performance, on the same flexible network.

Purpose

This is a static site to help candidates to get information on the OCI Challenge under one roof. It contains

Videos
Photos
Documents
Instructions
Manuals

to help candidates crack the challenge. All the best. Read on.

The Big Picture

This entire test is a process of evaluating candidates who have the same passion that Oracle Cloud has

Building great Cloud Native Innovation. Scaling it reliably for the Enterprise.

The Architecture of the application that will be deployed by the candidate on OCI

Phases

The completion of this challenge happens in phases, starting from a simple spinning up of a Kubernetes Cluster in OKE to creating the entire DevOps Cycle

There is a bonus challenge which involves setting up of

1. Slack Notifications for Build and Deployment 🏆
2. Setting up of Cluster Monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana 🏆
3. Scale Kubernetes Cluster using Slack 🏆

Posts

• Mar 22, 2019

  Getting Started - Everything you need to know

  Create your OCI Account

  You would have to create / obtain credentials for an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Account

  How would you do it

  Go to this Link to get your free Oracle Cloud Account for 30 days

  Sign Up !

• Mar 22, 2019

  Challenge-1 - Spin up an OKE Cluster

  About the Challenge

  This challenge is to verify your ability to create IaaS resources such as

  • A managed Kubernetes Service
  • Create Network & Firewall policies if required
  • Ability to create Users, Compartments, Groups
  • Apply Basic Principles of IAM and create access privileges
• Mar 21, 2019

  Challenge-2 - Move the public Github Repos to OCI - Developer Cloud Service

  About the Challenge

  This challenge is to verify your ability to create a PaaS service like Developer Cloud Service

  • Ability to import a Github repo
  • Add teammates to your project and give them read-only access
• Mar 20, 2019

  Challenge-3 - Create Wercker / Oracle Container Pipeline Environment

  About this challenge

  This challenge is to verify your ability to use a Cloud Native service like Wercker to

  • Import Applications
  • Create Team members with access privileges
  • Configure Workflows, Pipelines and Steps
• Mar 19, 2019

  Challenge-4 - Prepare Cluster for Deployment and Install the Database layer

  About this challenge

  This challenge is to verify your ability to

  • Use Helm
  • Deploy a MongoDB StatefulSet Chart
  • Create a HA Mongo DB cluster
• Mar 18, 2019

  Challenge-5 - Deploy the Front End and Backend

  About this Challenge

  This challenge is to verify your ability to

  • Setup the Wercker ENV Variables to actually deploy the Front End and Backend
  • Commit Changes to the Readme Files and verify if the deployment gets updated on the Kubernetes Cluster
• Mar 17, 2019

  Challenge-6 - Setup Cluster Monitoring using Prometheus & Grafana

  About this Challenge

  This challenge is to verify your ability to

  • Use Helm to Deploy Prometheus and Grafana to setup Kubernetes Cluster Monitoring
  • Show a dashboard along with alerts on Slack whenever a metric crosses threshold

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