Networking, IAM, and security for shared and dedicated deployments

This section discusses important steps you need to perform, such as networking, IAM, and security through policies and permission of resources. They are applicable to any ADBs, such as shared or dedicated deployments you plan to do in OCI. Understanding these topics is critical because IAM and networking could be complex. Consider a scenario of identity federation where you need to integrate with another service provider (Microsoft Azure AD, Okta, etc.) for identity-related tasks. The same is true for networking. Imagine your databases need to be accessed only from within your cloud tenancy or from within a private subnet.

Prerequisites – IAM considerations

OCI provides IAM integration as a shared security service across all resources deployed in a tenancy. You can consider it as a common framework that helps integrate OCI IAM for resource authentication and authorization needs applicable to all the integration...