Oracle Cloud CI Integration

Overview

Set up GitHub Actions workflows that authenticate to OCI, run Terraform plans, and execute tests against OCI services. The OCI Terraform provider has known bugs — notably ResourcePrincipal forcing the wrong region (#1761) — that require specific workarounds. This skill provides battle-tested CI patterns that avoid those pitfalls.

Purpose: Get a working CI pipeline that authenticates to OCI, runs Terraform safely, and tests OCI-dependent code without flaky failures.

Prerequisites

• OCI tenancy with an API signing key configured in ~/.oci/config
• Terraform >= 1.5 and the OCI provider (oracle/oci)
• GitHub repository with Actions enabled
• GitHub Secrets configured: OCI_USER_OCID, OCI_FINGERPRINT, OCI_TENANCY_OCID, OCI_REGION, OCI_PRIVATE_KEY (PEM contents, base64-encoded)
• Python 3.8+ with pip install oci for SDK-based tests

Instructions

Step 1: Configure GitHub Secrets for OCI Auth