Creating a Big Data Cloud instance

So you’ve started your Oracle Cloud Free trial and want to start working with big data? Let me be your guide!

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Step 1 Create a Storage Container

1. Open the hamburger-menu to the side and click “Storage” or “Storage Classic” (depends on the type of environment you are in — but they are practically the same)

Your Oracle Cloud Dashboard!

1. Click create and give it a name! (Remember your name, mine’s “on-fire”)

Create Storage Container :)

Step 2 Create a BDCS-CE Cluster

Small aside here, Oracle is changing the name of “Big Data Cloud Service — Compute Edition”(BDCS-CE) to “Big Data Cloud” (BDC). Thank goodness because the former is a mouthful!

1. Go back to your dashboard
2. Click the hamburger-menu and navigate to “Oracle Big Data Cloud Service — Compute Edition”
3. Click “Create Service”

BDCS-CE Console

4. Name it, and if you want a notification email when the service has been created include the address you want it sent to

Create Service

5. Fill out the settings… this can be tricky, I’ve given some explanation below and bolded important values

Service Detail

Config list

For “Cloud Storage Container” Storage-YOUR_CONTAINER_NAME may work; however the UI is being updated hence this addendum

SSH Public Key

Getting the “Cloud Storage Container” values right is the tricky part, but the SSH keys are crucial! I just let Oracle create them for me.

If you click “Create a New Key” OpenSSH keys will be generated for you. Subsequently download the zip file.

Windows will unzip them for you, but I like to do it keep my command-line skills sharp :)

unzip sshkeybundle.zip -d sshkeybundle

Since the keys are OpenSSH you’ll have to convert them to .ppk format if your using putty. My next post will by on using my favorite ssh client (and so much more!) MobaXterm to access our instance

MobaXterm free Xserver and tabbed SSH client for Windows

6. Click “Next” and “Create”. If you included your email in the “Notification” box (at step 4) then you’ll get a notification email when the service has been created :)

If everything went well you should see something like this indicating that the service is being created!

And if you included your email in the “Create Service” pane (Step 4) a little email letting your know how awesome you are

Horray! It worked!

If you have questions please comment, message me on twitter, or send me an email (Steven.Black@Oracle.com). You can also visit the official Oracle docs at docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/big-data-compute-cloud/ .

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