Creating an Instance for a Roving Edge Infrastructure Device

Describes how to create a compute instance on your Roving Edge Infrastructure device.

You must have at least one VCN and one subnet created before creating an instance. Otherwise, an error message appears when you submit your instance for creation.

If you require more disk space on your VM, you can create and attach a block volume. See the following topics for more information:

1. Open the navigation menu and select Compute > Instances. The Instances page appears. All instances are listed in tabular form.
2. Click Create Instance. The Create Compute Instance dialog box appears.
3. Complete the following:
  - Name: Enter a name for the instance.
  - Image or operating system: Click Change Image. The Browse All Images dialog box appears. Select one of the following image options:
    
    Platform Images tab: Check the pre-built image you want for the instance from the list and click Select Image.
    
    Custom Images tab: Click Select Image. The image you selected is displayed in the Image or operating system box.
  - Shape: Click Change Shape. The Browse All Shapes dialog box appears. Select a Standard or Specialty shape type, then select one of the corresponding shapes that appear. Click Select Shape. The shape you selected is displayed in the Shape box.
  - Select a virtual cloud network: Select a virtual cloud network from the list.
  - Select a subnet: Select a subnet associated with the virtual cloud network from the list.
  - IP address: Select an IP address option:
    
    Assign a public IP address (if selected, an IP address from the external CIDR is used)
    
    Do not assign a public IP address
  - Specify a custom boot volume size: Check if you do not want to use the default boot volume size. Enter the size in the Boot volume size box.
  - SSH key: Select an SSH key option:
    
    Choose SSH key file: Click browse to a location and navigate to your SSH key file where you can select it for upload. You can also drag the file into the SSH keys box.
    
    Paste SSH keys: Copy and paste the SSH key directly into the SSH keys box.
    
    Note
    
    If the original image had the user keys on it, the new keys might not be added to the resulting instance, depending on the image specifics.
4. Click Create. Upon creation of the instance, the new instance's Details page opens automatically.
5. Review the contents of the instance's Details page. It contains information such as its current state (indicated by the image in the upper left corner), IP addresses used, the image used, shape settings. You can view the boot volume, and attached VNICs by clicking their respective links in the lower left corner. Creation of the instance can take several minutes. During this time, the state is Provisioning. When the creation is complete, the state changes to Running. This state indicates that the instance is now launched.
Note

Your instance capacity is limited by the available cores and available memory. If you see "out of capacity" messages on instance creation, terminate some of the existing instances that are not used and try again. Stopped instances count toward the resources used. Terminate the instance to free up the resources.
Use the oci compute instance launch command and required parameters to create a compute instance on your Roving Edge Infrastructure devices:
```
oci compute instance launch --compartment-id compartment_ocid --availability-domain orei-1-ad-1 --shape shape [OPTIONS]
```
Refer to your Roving Edge Infrastructure device's CLI help for a list of parameters available for this command. See Accessing Command Line Interface Help.

To determine your Roving Edge Infrastructure device compartment OCID, see Compartments.

For CLI setup information on your Roving Edge Infrastructure device, see Using the Command Line Interface.
Run the LaunchInstance operation to create a compute instance on your Roving Edge Infrastructure devices.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Creating an Instance for a Roving Edge Infrastructure Device