Get Started with Setting Up VB Studio

To get started, consider what you want to do with VB Studio. Your answer determines whether or not you'll need to create your own VB Studio instance.

Use Case	Description	Where to Get More Details
1	You won't need to create your own VB Studio instance if you want to do any of these things: Configure Oracle Cloud Applications by modifying existing application pages Extend Oracle Cloud Applications by creating a bespoke App UI and hosting it alongside your Oracle Cloud Applications Extend Oracle Cloud Applications by creating a bespoke visual application and hosting it on a Visual Builder instance—when your developers have access to Oracle Cloud Applications* If you don't have access to Oracle Cloud Applications, see the next row. For the above use cases, don't create a VB Studio instance; Oracle provisions you with the instances you need.*	Set Up VB Studio to Extend Oracle Cloud Applications
2	You will need to create your own VB Studio instance, however, if you want to do these things: Use VB Studio as a CI/CD tool to manage the development operations of a large software implementation project Extend Oracle Cloud Applications by creating a bespoke visual application and hosting it on a Visual Builder instance—when your developers don't have access to Oracle Cloud Applications	Create a VB Studio Instance in Your Oracle Cloud Account

Use Case

Description

Where to Get More Details

You won't need to create your own VB Studio instance if you want to do any of these things:

Configure Oracle Cloud Applications by modifying existing application pages
Extend Oracle Cloud Applications by creating a bespoke App UI and hosting it alongside your Oracle Cloud Applications
Extend Oracle Cloud Applications by creating a bespoke visual application and hosting it on a Visual Builder instance—when your developers have access to Oracle Cloud Applications*
- *If you don't have access to Oracle Cloud Applications, see the next row.

For the above use cases, don't create a VB Studio instance; Oracle provisions you with the instances you need.

You will need to create your own VB Studio instance, however, if you want to do these things:

Use VB Studio as a CI/CD tool to manage the development operations of a large software implementation project
Extend Oracle Cloud Applications by creating a bespoke visual application and hosting it on a Visual Builder instance—when your developers don't have access to Oracle Cloud Applications

Once you've got your VB Studio instance set up, you can move on with the rest of the chapters in this guide:

To use VB Studio to customize certain Oracle Cloud Applications through extensions, see Set Up VB Studio to Extend Oracle Cloud Applications.
If you want to develop responsive applications and deploy them to Visual Builder instances, see Set Up VB Studio for Developing Visual Applications.
To manage a large software development project that uses OCI cloud services and doesn't involve either Oracle Cloud Applications or visual applications, see Set Up VB Studio for CI/CD.