Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Resource Principals

DB systems can use resource principals to authenticate and access other Oracle Cloud Infrastructure resources. To use resource principals, you or your tenancy administrator must define the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure policies and dynamic groups that allows principals to access Oracle Cloud Infrastructure resources.

Resource principal is used in the following HeatWave Service features:

  • Bring your own certificate: Allows DB systems to read the certificates defined in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Certificates Service.
  • HeatWave Lakehouse: Allows DB systems to read data from Object Storage.

Resource principals have two components:

Dynamic Groups

Dynamic groups allow you to group HeatWave Service DB systems as principal actors, similar to user groups.

You can then create policies to permit DB systems in the dynamic groups to make API calls against Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services, such as Certificates or Object Storage. Membership in the group is determined by a set of criteria you define, called matching rules.

The following example shows a matching rule including all DB systems in the defined compartment:
"ALL{resource.type='mysqldbsystem', resource.compartment.id = 'ocid1.compartment.oc1..alphanumericString'}"

For more information, see Writing Matching Rules to Define Dynamic Groups.

Dynamic groups require a name, description, and matching rule. See Creating a Dynamic Group.

Policies

Policies define what your groups or dynamic groups can and cannot do.

Defining a Policy for Bring Your Own Certificate

For DB systems to access certificates from the Certificates Service, you must define a policy which allows the dynamic group to read the certificates.

For example, the following policy grants the dynamic group MYSQL_DG to read the security certificates in compartment C8: 
Allow dynamic-group MYSQL_DG to read leaf-certificate-family in compartment C8

Defining a Policy for HeatWave Lakehouse

For HeatWave Lakehouse to access Object Storage, you must define a policy which allows the dynamic group to access to buckets and their contents.

For example, the following policy grants the dynamic group MYSQL_DG read-only access to the buckets and objects contained in those buckets in compartment C8: 
Allow dynamic-group MYSQL_DG to read buckets in compartment C8
Allow dynamic-group MYSQL_DG to read objects in compartment C8
For more information, see Writing Policies for Dynamic Groups.