Oracle Cloud Deploy Integration

Overview

Deploy containerized applications to OCI using either OKE (Oracle Kubernetes Engine) or Container Instances. OKE provides full Kubernetes but requires 4x more config than EKS — you need a VCN, subnet, node pool, OCIR registry, and IAM policies before a single pod runs. Container Instances offer a simpler serverless alternative for workloads that don't need Kubernetes orchestration.

Purpose: Get containers running on OCI through both the full Kubernetes path (OKE) and the simpler Container Instances path, with working manifests and registry auth.

Prerequisites

• OCI tenancy with an API signing key in ~/.oci/config
• Python 3.8+ with pip install oci for SDK-based provisioning
• Docker installed for building and pushing images
• kubectl installed for OKE cluster interaction
• Compartment OCID where resources will be created
• VCN with subnets — at least one public and one private subnet for OKE

Instructions

Step 1: Push Container Image to OCIR