Application development on OCI
It's time to build. On Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), developers find a comprehensive portfolio of tools and developer services to build new cloud native applications, modernize, and extend enterprise applications.
Modern development with the power of data
The way we design, develop, and ship software has transformed. Managed and serverless cloud services paired with microservices, Kubernetes, functions, API management, and CI/CD let dev teams focus and ship faster. On OCI, customers combine modern development patterns with data and AI to create and future-proof the next generation of applications.
OCI is recognized as a Visionary in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services.
Why develop applications on OCI?
-
Modern services from code to production
Develop and ship faster with OCI developer services. From low code to containers, CI/CD, and monitoring, everything you need is here.
-
Use your tools and tech
Bring your stack—Argo CD, GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Jenkins, Datadog, PostgreSQL, Redis, and others plug right in.
-
Build on open source
Managed Kubernetes, Terraform, MySQL, OpenSearch, and other services based on popular projects and frameworks keep your skills and apps portable.
-
Integrate data and AI
Connect to databases, stream data, and apply ready-to-use AI and machine learning (ML) services that don't require advanced training.
-
Get up and running quickly
Adopt and build with tutorials, labs, reference architectures, and a community to help and learn with you.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure application development services
Develop, build, and deploy
-
Develop
-
Develop with any language or framework. OCI is built to work the way you work.
- Use OCI via the console or with APIs, SDKs, CLIs, and Terraform providers.
- For Java and GraalVM, Java SE is included in every paid tenancy.
- Reduce context switching with tools, such as the in-console Code Editor, for editing code or scripts.
-
Build and deploy
-
Build and iterate faster with OCI-native toolchains to simplify the process of adopting containers, automation, and infrastructure as code.
- Run declarative CI/CD pipelines to automate your end-to-end delivery with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) DevOps. Connect to private resources, integrate existing CI tools, and adopt advanced deployment strategies.
- Connect and replicate GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or other repos to the Code Repository, along with a Container Registry and Artifact Repository.
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Resource Manager is a managed Terraform service that automates infrastructure deployment and configuration change auditing and generates IaC from existing environments.
-
Low code
-
Quickly extend enterprise applications, add new application interfaces, and build secure web and database GUI apps.
- Build new standalone cloud and mobile apps: turn a spreadsheet into an app, create forms, share data, or even build a COVID-19 health tracker for clinical trials with Oracle APEX.
- Customize and extend Oracle SaaS and on-premises applications as well as build new applications with Oracle Visual Builder Studio.
-
Integrated ecosystem
-
Connect the tools, frameworks, and technologies you’re already using: GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, Ansible, Rancher, EFK, Spinnaker, VMware Tanzu, Azure, Pulumi, and many others.
- Reference architectures, operators, and code samples will get you up and running quickly.
Containers and Functions
-
Kubernetes
-
Instantly launch Kubernetes clusters with customizable and serverless management options by using Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes.
- Fully conformant with open source upstream Kubernetes, so you can use ecosystem solutions and tools.
- One-click cluster creation includes the underlying virtual networks, internet gateways, and NAT gateways.
- Virtual nodes enable a serverless experience.
- Integrated with other OCI services, such as OCI Container Registry, DevOps CI/CD, networking, storage, and more.
-
Containers
-
Instantly run containers without managing any servers and use the built-in container registry to collaborate and scale.
- For containerized applications that don’t require container orchestration, OCI Container Instances instantly run containers without any infrastructure.
- Container Instance CPU and memory resources are priced the same as "regular" Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute.
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Container Registry (OCIR) can store, manage, scan, sign, and share container images with a familiar Docker CLI and API interface.
-
Functions
-
Create, run, and scale event-driven applications without managing any infrastructure using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Functions, which is based on the open source Fn Project.
- Predictable low latencies with provisioned concurrencies.
- Port functions to other cloud and on-premises Fn Project environments.
- Integrated with every OCI trigger: events, API Gateway, Oracle Applications, Visual Builder Studio, DevOps, and more.
APIs and Messaging
-
Build and operate APIs
-
Prototype, test, validate, secure, operate, and even monetize your APIs.
- API Gateway is a managed and highly available API frontend gateway for deploying, operating, securing, and monetizing API services.
- Serverless APIs eliminate the need for infrastructure operations or overprovisioning by building an API with serverless functions as a back end and an API gateway providing front-end access to those functions.
- Design and publish APIs by prototyping, developing, testing, and validating APIs based on the OpenAPI framework. Securely expose and monitor them via API Gateway.
-
Messaging
-
Adopt scalable and reliable messaging between microservices.
Databases
-
Databases
-
For any type of data and data relationship, there is an Oracle Database solution as well as support for open source databases.
- MySQL HeatWave is a MySQL database service for transactions, analytics, and ML. Available on OCI, Azure, and AWS.
- NoSQL Database is a fully managed, serverless NoSQL database service.
- Oracle Autonomous Database is ideal for building SQL, document, or graph-based applications on a single converged database.
- Non-Oracle databases, including Cassandra, PostgreSQL, and Redis, run on OCI.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning
-
AI services
-
Infuse your applications with AI—no AI expertise required.
- AI services include speech/language recognition, computer vision, anomaly detection, AI forecasting, media processing, and more.
- Customize prebuilt models easily and privately with your data.
-
In-database ML
-
Apply prebuilt and customizable models to your database.
- MySQL HeatWave and Autonomous Database give developers more than 30 algorithms and the ability to build and train models with their data—without moving the data to a separate system.
-
Run your own models
-
Run your training and inference models on OCI with popular open source frameworks.
- High performance GPU clusters, powered by a NVIDIA partnership and preconfigured environments for data science, get your training and inference models running quickly and cost effectively.
Application Integration
-
Application Integration
-
Connect and customize flows and processes across SaaS, enterprise applications, and your custom applications with OCI Application Integration.
- Unify workflows and approvals across ERP, HCM, and CX applications with a visual designer and run-ready process automation templates.
- Connect to any cloud or on-premises application with a broad array of prebuilt adapters.
Application services
-
Search
-
Build in-application search with OCI Search Service with OpenSearch.
- Use a proven, open source search solution with a management layer and no infrastructure to manage.
-
Blockchain
-
Collaborate with multiple parties using a shared distributed ledger on Blockchain Platform Service.
- Quickly provision a private, secure, and preassembled blockchain network with a shared distributed ledger based on the open source Hyperledger Fabric.
-
Content Management
-
Build reactive front ends on a headless CMS with Oracle Content Management.
- Use your favorite Jamstack components, such as Gatsby, React, Svelte, Next.js, and more.
- Get powerful collaboration, workflow management, and self-service capabilities for content creators.
Monitoring and observability
-
Application Performance Monitoring
-
See and resolve performance issues quickly with full stack visibility across metrics, tracing, and logs—regardless of where your apps are hosted with Oracle Application Performance Monitoring.
- Real user experience monitoring
- Synthetic monitoring
- Distributed transaction tracing
- Server monitoring
- Aggregated application and infrastructure logs and analysis
-
Monitoring
-
Optimize and troubleshoot infrastructure with full visibility and capacity trends across your tenancy.
- OCI Monitoring delivers performance and uptime metrics of infrastructure and applications with prepopulated dashboards.
- Operations Insights provides utilization and performance visibility over time by analyzing long-range patterns to optimize cost, SQL performance, and more.
-
Logging
-
Aggregate, search, and analyze logs across applications, OCI resources, and any other source.
- OCI Logging is easy to search with a powerful rules engine to trigger functions or alerts.
- Built on open standards, such as Fluentd.
- Priced on storage, not search or ingest.
- Add Logging Analytics for ML–based analysis and more than 250 parsers for heterogeneous environments.
- Service Connector Hub provides management and control over data movement between OCI services, such as Logging and Object Storage, or between OCI and third-party log analysis tools.
OCI resources for application development teams
-
Architecture Center
More than 200 reference architectures you can deploy into your tenancy with a single click.
-
Developer Resource Center
The hub for all things developer at Oracle.
-
Documentation
Explore OCI concepts, service documentation, playbooks, and getting started guides.
OCI expands app development portfolio with new serverless container and messaging services and capabilities to simplify enterprise adoption of cloud native technologies
Leo Leung, Vice President, Product Marketing, OCI
Today, we are expanding the comprehensive portfolio of over a hundred services that Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) offers to help developers build, run, modernize, and extend applications. These include a wide range of developer services for building cloud native apps, pretrained AI, data services, and low-code development, as well as solutions to improve security, observability, developer experience, and more – including the new services and capabilities we are introducing today.
Read the full postFeatured Application Development blogs
- August 17, 2022 Design APIs with OCI Code Editor
- April 5, 2022 Powering interactive 3D experiences on OCI using pixel streaming
- March 4, 2022 A simple async pattern for SpringBoot microservices with OCI Streaming and instance principals
- May 5, 2021 Developing low-code applications in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure using Oracle APEX
Application development customer successes
Plan, Adopt, Innovate
Oracle provides both the technology and the guidance you need to succeed at every step of your journey, from planning and adoption through to continuous innovation.
Start building now
Try Always Free cloud services and get a 30-day trial
Oracle offers a Free Tier with no time limits on selection of services, such as Autonomous Database, Compute, and Storage, as well as US$300 in free credits to try additional cloud services. Get the details and sign up for your free account today.
-
What’s included with Oracle Cloud Free Tier?
- 2 Autonomous Databases, 20 GB each
- AMD and Arm Compute VMs
- 200 GB total block storage
- 10 GB object storage
- 10 TB outbound data transfer per month
- 10+ more Always Free services
- US$300 in free credits for 30 days for even more
See what’s new in OCI services and use cases
-
What’s New—The Highlights
OCI services are always evolving and improving. We summarize everything that’s new in one place, so you can see how we’re evolving OCI.
Read what’s new -
The Developers Blog
Read the Developers Blog to stay current with the latest examples and explanations of how to use OCI.
Explore the OCI Developers Blog
Learn with a tutorial
The best way to learn is to try it yourself. Use our tutorials and Hands-On Labs with the Oracle Cloud Free Tier, your own Oracle Cloud tenancy, or, for selected solutions, an Oracle-provided free lab environment.
-
Create an ecommerce sockshop site
In this tutorial, we’ll walk through creating a stateful, microservices-based application that uses Oracle Coherence CE as a scalable embedded data store and Micronaut Framework as an application framework.
Start the ecommerce sockshop tutorial -
Call a Python Function using an API Gateway
In this tutorial, you will use Oracle Functions to process data passed from an Oracle API Gateway.
Start the Python Function tutorial -
Deploy a Python Flask application in a Kubernetes cluster
In this tutorial, you use an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure account to set up a Kubernetes cluster. Then, you create a Python application with a Flask framework. Finally, you’ll deploy your application to your cluster using Cloud Shell.
Start the Python Flask tutorial -
Build a web chatbot
In this lab you’ll use Oracle APEX to store information, offer a REST API with Oracle REST Data Services, and enable users to interact with a Digital Assistant.
Start the web chatbot tutorial
Certify your OCI skills
Explore certifications for cloud developers, operations, architects, and more.
Contact sales
Interested in learning more about the Application Development? Let one of our experts help.
-
They can answer questions like:
- How can I get started developing applications on OCI?
- Which OCI developer services should I adopt, or should I bring existing tools and services, like monitoring, to OCI?
- Where I get specific questions about OCI security or other topics answered?
- How do I apply existing Oracle licenses to OCI service credit?
- Where can I get help expanding service limits?