From the course: Introduction to Oracle Cloud Essentials (2024)

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Networking services

Networking services - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Tutorial

From the course: Introduction to Oracle Cloud Essentials (2024)

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Networking services

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(bright music) - Welcome back. In this lesson we'll explore some of the OCI networking services. So let's get started. The core resource you can provision for network computing is aptly called a virtual cloud network or VCN for short. If you recall, in an earlier lesson, we learned about compute instances, virtual or bare metal machines. Well, not only do these instances such as VMs need to communicate with each other, they could also have requirements to access other resources or services available on the internet, or there could be users on the internet that may need to connect to and communicate with one or more of those compute instances. So how does all this communication happen? Well, that's where the virtual cloud network comes into the picture. The VCN represents a traditional network, meaning it has all the features of a physical network. You can configure constructs such as public subnets and private subnets. Think of these as a subdivision of the larger network, sometimes…

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