Description: Some customers require Canaries running on their Oracle/OCI environment. Whilst we don't officially support this, the following guide will have a Canary up and running in no-time.

Grabbing the Qcow2 image

Please ping support@canary.tools to quickly build and share an image for you.

Creating the Canary instance in OCI

Step 1:

In OCI we need to upload the image to a Bucket - to kick this off, lets browse to Buckets, select a Bucket to upload the image to.

1. Click on Upload - this should display the "Upload Objects" page.

Step 2:

1. Add / Update Object details as required - defaults should work perfectly fine here.
2. Click on Select Files and select the Canary Qcow2 image we've shared with you.
3. Click Upload once you've selected the image.

Note : The image may take take a minute or two to upload.

Step 3:

1. Head over to the Navigation Menu and then select Compute
2. Select Custom Images

Step 4:

1. Select Import Image.

Step 5:

1. Name the Custom Image - note we've named the image : Canary-Image-Import
2. Select OS as Debian.
3. Select the image we uploaded to the Bucket in Step 2 - note we've selected : OCI-Canary-Image.qcow2
4. Set image type to QCOW2
5. Click Import Image

Note : Creating the image may take anywhere from  5 to 15 minutes.

Step 6:

1. Wait for the creation of the image to reach 100%.
2. Click Create Instance

Step 7:

When creating the compute instance, we will scroll through the creation page below outlining the require details - the remaining details can all remain as default.

         1. Name the Canary instance in OCI - note we named our instance : Finance-SRV-01

Scroll down to Primary VNIC information.

         2. Select the Network and Subnet the Bird will be connected to: (We'd suggest not connecting it to a public facing               network, rather private)

Scroll down to Add SSH Keys.

         3. Select No SSH Keys and click the Create button:

         4. Click Create to start the creation of the Canary instance

Note : Once the instance has been provisioned it will boot up automatically.

Step 8:

On your Console, you should see a pop up to confirm your new Canary.

Click Add Canary.

You can set up your Virtual Canary from within your Console using the remote management - Guide found here.

Note : You will notice the Canary being identified as an OpenStack Bird, this is expected as we're using the OpenStack Bird image as a base to build on for OCI.

You're done! ;-)