Add an Oracle Cloud Credential

Add an existing Oracle Cloud account to NavOps so that you can create a cloud environment.

You must have created an Oracle Cloud user and added a public key for the user.
You should have the following information stored in a file:
  • User OCID generated when creating the Oracle user.
  • Tenancy OCID.
  • Root compartment OCID.
  • Fingerprint of the public key generated for the Oracle user.
  • RSA private key that was generated for the Oracle user.

This information is necessary to create a cloud credential in NavOps. If you do not have this information see Create an Oracle Cloud User Account, Generating an SSH Public for the Oracle Cloud User, Obtain the Compartment Identifier and Obtain the Tenancy Identifier.

  1. Login to NavOps.
  2. Go to Clouds, and then select Credentials.
  3. Click Add Cloud Credentials
  4. Click Select in the Oracle Cloud tile.
  5. Enter the following to add a cloud credential:
    1. For Account name, enter any name for the cloud credential.
      The name can be anything meaningful to your organization, e.g., oracle_cloudaccount.
    2. For User OCID, enter the user OCID generated when creating the Oracle cloud user.
    3. For Tenant OCID, enter the tenancy OCID .
    4. For Compartment OCID, enter the root compartment OCID.
    5. For Fingerprint, enter the fingerprint generated when adding the public SSH key for the Oracle user.
    6. For Private Key, enter the generated RSA private key.
  6. (Optional) For Tags, enter the suitable tags for the credentials.
  7. Click Test to check the credentials. If an error message is displayed, inspect the details from the Tasks list.
  8. Click Save.