Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Creating a Compute Cluster

When you first create a compute cluster, you create an empty RDMA network group. After the compute cluster is created, you can create instances in the compute cluster.

For steps to create instances, See Creating an Instance.

For information about required IAM policies, see Compute Clusters.

    1. Navigate to the Compute Clusters list page. If you need help finding the list page, see Listing Compute Clusters.
    2. Select Create compute cluster.
    3. Enter a name for the compute cluster. It doesn't have to be unique, and you can change it later. Avoid entering confidential information.
    4. Select the compartment to create the compute cluster in.
    5. Select the availability domain to run the compute cluster in. Only availability domains with hardware that supports compute clusters are listed.
    6. (Optional) To assign tags to the cluster:
      • Select Show tagging options.

      If you have permissions to create a resource, then you also have permissions to apply free-form tags to that resource. To apply a defined tag, you must have permissions to use the tag namespace. For more information about tagging, see Resource Tags. If you're not sure whether to apply tags, skip this option or ask an administrator. You can apply tags later.

    7. Select Create.

  • Use the compute-cluster create command:

    oci compute compute-cluster create --from-json <file://path/to/file.json>

    <file://path/to/file.json> is the path to a JSON file that defines the instance details. For information about how to generate an example of the JSON file, see Advanced JSON Options.

    For a complete list of flags and variable options for the Compute service CLI commands, see the command line reference for Compute.

  • For information about using the API and signing requests, see REST API documentation and Security Credentials. For information about SDKs, see SDKs and the CLI.

    Use this API operation to create a compute cluster: