Container Instances
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Container Instances is a serverless compute service that enables you to instantly run containers without managing any servers.
OCI Container Instances lets you easily run applications on serverless compute optimized for containers.
Using Container Instances, you can easily launch one or more containers with the flexibility to specify compute shape, resource allocation, networking, and other optional configurations. Container Instances runs in a dedicated environment with strong isolation for improved security. You pay the same price for the CPU and memory resources as you would for OCI Compute instances for the chosen shape, making Container Instances the best value option for running containers in the cloud.
Container Instances is suitable for containerized workloads that don’t require a container orchestration platform such as Kubernetes; these include APIs, web apps, CI/CD jobs, automation tasks, data/media processing, DevTest environments, and more. For running your containerized apps on Kubernetes without managing infrastructure, see OCI Kubernetes Engine.
Why OCI Container Instances?
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Focus on apps, not infrastructure
See how B3 used OCI Container Instances to focus on application development.
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Reduce cost
See how UPLUCID adopted OCI Container Instances and achieved significant cost reductions.
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Improve security
Containers run in an optimized environment with strong isolation, the same as VMs. Further improve your application’s security posture with an integrated virtual cloud network (VCN), identity and access management, container-level security context settings, and more.
With OCI Container Instances we do not have to deal with the hassles of installing, provisioning, or managing infrastructure. We simply run our Terraform code and the service automatically builds and runs our app on secure infrastructure optimized for containers.Fernando Vasquez Grupo Restaurantero Gigante, Cloud Administrator and Senior DBA
Container Instances resources
- New to OCI Container Instances? Check out this 9-minute deep dive video (9:11).
- See what’s new in OCI Container Instances via Oracle Release Notes.
- Consult OCI Container Instances docs to get started and find answers to your questions.
- Get answers to your broader Oracle and OCI questions in Oracle Docs.
- Check out the Oracle Architecture Center or guidance on how to streamline containerized application management with OCI Container Instances.
- Practice using OCI Container Instances via these courses and labs:
- Become an OCI Kubernetes Engine Specialist
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