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Installation⚓︎

Install with interactive installation:

sudo bash -c "$(curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oracle/oci-cli/master/scripts/install/install.sh)"

While responding to the installation prompts, keep all the installed files and folders in the same path (e.g. your $HOME) for consistency.

Test your installation:

oci --version

Configure the CLI with oci setup config; the prompts will ask for

your .oci/config file location
your user's OCID, tenancy's OCID, API Key fingerprint and region

Test the connection with

oci os ns get   # It returns the tenancy's namespaces

Error

Troubleshoot the NotAuthenticated error with this blog post.

Check shape availability⚓︎

Get the list of compartments with

oci iam compartment list

Info

The output of the CLI are JSON records (readability is improved using --output table). Save them in a variable with VARIABLENAME=$(oci ...) then parse them in bash with jq using echo $VARIABLENAME | jq '.'

Get the list of compartments' OCIDs into an array:

COMPARTMENTS=$(oci iam compartment list)
echo $COMPARTMENTS > compartments.json
COMPARTMENTS_OCID=$(cat compartments.json | jq -r '.data[].id')
COMPARTMENT_ARRAY=($(echo $COMPARTMENTS_OCID | tr " " "\n"))
rm compartments.json

You can access them with a for loop like:

for compartment_ocid in "${COMPARTMENT_ARRAY[@]}"
do
    echo $compartment_ocid
done

Using the same for loop as above, get the list of available instance shapes (reference). The grep part is used to check if a specific shape is available in each compartment:

for compartment_ocid in "${COMPARTMENT_ARRAY[@]}"
do
    SHAPE=$(oci compute shape list --compartment-id $compartment_ocid | grep "VM.Standard.A1.Flex")
    # Check if shape is available
    if [ -z "$SHAPE" ]
    then
        echo "No shape found in compartment $compartment_ocid"
    else
        echo $SHAPE
    fi
done

Next: create a .NET worker service with the .NET SDK (documentation also available here)