OCI Development Cloud

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure FreeBSD Development Environment

SkunkWerks works with FreeBSD in most of their projects and they use OCI as their multi-country development environment of developers all over the globe.

What they needed was a cloud environment made of:

• 2 AMD servers.
• 1 ARM server
• A network load balancer
• A VCN configuration
• A public subnet
• Some specific ports open on every machine via firewall rules, all others closed
• SSH keys pre-configured
• OCI DNS in place to assign names to each machine and be accessible through a specific domain.
• Platform should use as OS their tailor made FreeBSD build (the other project I did for them)

What I did

Using Terraform and the excellent Oracle Cloud Documentation about it, I created their entire dev infrastructure as code tha they could run with a simple “terraform apply” and modifiable variables with their descriptions in .tfvars with some initial configuration.

Prior to this, I had never before used OCI.