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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) : Create a Compartment

This article shows how to create a compartment, a container for a group of related resources, under Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

The screens change a little with each quarterly release of Oracle Cloud. Even so, the screen shots in this article will give you a good idea of what is involved.

Considerations
Create a Compartment

Considerations

Some things to consider before you create your first compartment.

A compartment is a container for grouping together related resources.
You can alter the compartment description and tags at any point, but the compartment name is fixed, so pick a name wisely. If you change your mind, the only option is to delete it, and you will see below why that may not be possible.
Resources like virtual cloud networks, compute instances and databases are created in a compartment. Once created, they can't be moved to a new compartment.

Create a Compartment

Log into the Oracle Cloud.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console

Use the top-left hamburger menu to select the "Identity > Compartments" option.

Click the "Create Compartment" button.

Compartments Dashboard

Enter the compartment name and description. If you want to make it a child of an existing compartment, select the relevant parent compartment, otherwise accept the default root container. Click the "Create Compartment" button.

Create Compartment

The new compartment is now listed on the compartments dashboard.

Compartments Dashboard

You can now create resources in the compartment.

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Hope this helps. Regards Tim...

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