Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Requirements

OCI Overview

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is Oracle's cloud hosting solution, which offers databases and applications which can run with a range of other well-known cloud technologies and also addresses regulatory requirements.

OCI Requirements prior to installation

If deploying to OCI, ensure that you have the following:

• OCI Virtual Cloud Network (VCN) (see Oracle documentation)
  • Including subnets, routing tables, internet access, etc.
  • Load balancing, WAF, etc. for ingress into Kubernetes
• OCI Kubernetes Engine (OKE)
  • OKE Cluster v1.30+
  • Network Policy Implementation (for example, Calico or VPC CNI)
  • Custom Metrics Collection Implementation - for example, Prometheus as kube-prometheus-stack and Prometheus Adapter as prometheus-adapter
  • Block storage CSI Provider
  • Shared file system CSI Provider
• OCI Database with PostgreSQL
  • PostgreSQL v14
• OCI Cache
  • Redis OSS v7
• OCI Streaming (Platform version 4.5 or earlier)
  • Kafka Compatible API
• Apache Kafka Cluster (Platform version 4.6 or later)
  • Helm Chart for Apache Kafka v3.6
• Apache ActiveMQ (on Kubernetes)
  • ActiveMQ v5.18
• MongoDB via ScaleGrid DBaaS (Refer to the OCI ScaleGrid requirements page.)
  • MongoDB v6
  • Requires ScaleGrid account and Bring-Your-Own-Cloud OCI Profile
• Neo4j Standalone Helm Chart
  • Neo4J v4.4 - Needs two standalone clusters (neo4j1 and neo4j2)
• SMTP (no dedicated cluster needed just an SMTP endpoint for delivering emails). While OCI has the Email Delivery service, most customers will have an existing SMTP server for this purpose.
• OCI Object Storage
  • You need to set up OCI Object Storage for SMI. Refer to the OCI Object Storage requirements page for details on this procedure.