Get Started with Data Catalog
Get started with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Catalog by creating the user groups and access policies needed to create a data catalog.
This tutorial is directed at administrator users because they're granted the required access permissions.
In this tutorial, you:
- Create a user group for data catalog admins. Optionally create user groups for other users, such as data catalog data engineers, data scientists, data stewards, and data officers.
- (Optional) Create a compartment for the data catalog objects.
- Create policies to give the data catalog admins and other user groups access to use data catalog resources.
- Create a data catalog.
For more information, see Overview of Data Catalog.
Before You Begin
To successfully perform this tutorial, you must have the following:
- An Oracle Cloud Infrastructure account. See signing up for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
- At least one user in the tenancy who wants to work with Data Catalog. This user must be created in the Identity service.
1. Create an Admin User Group
A new user has no permissions until you place the user in one or more groups and create at least one policy to give that group permission to either the tenancy or compartment.
To create a user group and add users to this group, perform the following steps:
2. (Optional) Create a Compartment
Compartments help you organize and isolate the resources to make it easier to manage and secure access to them.
To create a compartment in the tenancy, perform the following steps:
3. Create Policies
A policy specifies the individuals or groups authorized to access specific Oracle Cloud Infrastructure resources held by a company, along with the manner in which such access is granted.
Data Catalog administrators need access to perform all data catalog related operations including configuring private networks.
To create policies for administrators, follow these steps:
Data Catalog users need the appropriate access to perform their required operations in a data catalog.
To create a policy for data catalog users, follow these steps:
4. Create a Data Catalog
When you create a data catalog, you get a single collaborative environment to manage technical, business, and operational metadata. You can collect, organize, find, access, understand, enrich, and activate this metadata.
To create a data catalog, perform the following steps:
What's Next
Now, you can harvest data sources. Try one of the following tutorials:
- Tutorial: Harvest from Object Storage
- Tutorial: Harvest from autonomous databases with private access
- Tutorial: Harvest on-premises data sources
After harvesting data sources, you can explore the harvested data entities and attributes, create a business glossary, and link terms and tags to your data objects.