Connection choices

You need to connect to OCI resources in order to access them. Without a connection in place, you cannot connect to your workloads. You can connect to your OCI resources to and from OCI using three different methods:

• Connecting through the public internet
• Connecting through a VPN
• Connecting through FastConnect

Let's discuss them in the next section.

Connecting through the public internet

Accessing an OCI instance over the public internet is pretty straightforward, and doesn't require much effort. You would need to go through the following steps to get internet access to and from the OCI instance:

1. Create a VCN and provide a CIDR range.
2. Create an internet gateway.
3. Create a route rule with traffic to the internet gateway (for all IP addresses, 0.0.0.0/0).
4. Create security list rules to allow traffic.
5. Make sure that each instance's firewall allows the traffic as well.
6. Create a public subnet within...