Oracle Cloud Notes

Create OpenBSD instance

Short description is Installing OpenBSD 7.2 on Oracle Cloud.

The process and description is fairly straight forward.

Firewall

Oracle maintains its own firewall for the virtual network

Networking - Virtual Cloud Networks - Security List Details

So you need to open up ports for web, ICMP, mail etc. if needed

Backups

Backups are created under the following menu for the created virtual machines

Storage - Block Storage - Boot Volumes - Create Boot Volume Backup

The backups can be managed under

Storage - Block Storage - Boot Volume Backups

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