Creation Of Oracle MFT Cloud Service Instance

Pre-requisites for creation of MFT Cloud Service:

1. Creation of SSH keypairs for use with oracle cloud service.
2. Creation of Storage Containers for back up storage.
3. Creation of Oracle Database Cloud Service for Oracle SOA Cloud Service.

Instance Creation Steps:

• Login to oracle.cloud.com with the credentials provided by oracle during subscription. You will be asked to select the cloud account type with below options and provide the identity domain name. Based on your subscription select accordingly click on My Services button.

Cloud Account with Identity Cloud Service	Users creation and management is based on “Oracle Identity Cloud Service”
Traditional Cloud Account	Users creation and management is based on “Traditional Identity and Access Management software”

• On the home page click on “Create Instance” and select “SOA” tab as below.

• You will be redirected to the SOA Cloud Service Console home page. Click on “Create Instance” as shown below.

• Instance creation form page appears. Please fill in the details and click on next.
• Service Name: Name of the MFT service instance
• Service Description: Description about MFT instance
• Notification Email: Recipient email for the provisioning status notifications
• Region: Name of the region where data centers are required
• Tags: You can include some tags like MFT Dev, MFT Test and so on
• SSH Public Key: Browse the SSH public key that was created during pre-requisite
• Software Release: Select the version of MFT required to be installed

• After filling the basic details, application navigates to Service Details page where we need to provide information regarding DB details, MFT configuration and load balancer configuration and click on next. Below are the few important details that needs to be considered.
• Service Type: Select MFT Cluster
• Compute Shape: Select the required compute shape 
• Provision Load Balancer: Check this option if the cluster size is > 2 and select the load balancer configuration
• Storage Container Name: Provide the container URL that is created during pre-requisites

• Now you can view all the provided configuration information review it once and click on submit and then click on create and after oracle cloud tooling completes the instance creation and it will be visible in SOA Console home page.