best-practices
OCI Best Practices - Expert Knowledge
🏗️ Use OCI Landing Zone Terraform Modules
Don't reinvent the wheel. Use oracle-terraform-modules/landing-zone for OCI architecture.
Landing Zone solves:
- ❌ Bad Practice #1: Generic compartments (Landing Zone provides hierarchical Network/Security/Workloads structure)
- ❌ Bad Practice #2: Administrator for daily ops (Landing Zone enforces least-privilege IAM policies)
- ❌ Bad Practice #4: Poor network segmentation (Landing Zone implements hub-spoke topology with security zones)
- ❌ Bad Practice #8: Creating your own Terraform modules (Landing Zone provides battle-tested, Oracle-maintained, CIS-certified modules)
This skill provides: OCI-specific anti-patterns, architecture patterns, and operational knowledge for resources deployed WITHIN a Landing Zone.
⚠️ OCI CLI/API Knowledge Gap
You don't know OCI CLI commands or OCI API structure.
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