Onboarding Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Environments

You can onboard an OCIClosed Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - cloud computing platform offered by Oracle Corporation. account to CloudGuard.

To onboard an OCI account to CloudGuard:

  1. In the CloudGuard portal, open Assets > Environments.

  2. For first-time onboarding, click OCI and follow the setup steps.

    Or, if you already onboarded environment(s), then from the top menu, select Add > OCI Environment.

  3. In the onboarding wizard, enter a new name for your OCI environment. This name lets you identify the environment in CloudGuard.

  4. Follow the on-screen instructions to enter mandatory (*) and optional information in the fields. Use tooltips to see more explanations.

    Note - After onboarding, you can possibly receive a validation email message to the provided OCI tenant administrator email address. CloudGuard creates a new user on your tenant. This does not require action, and you can safely ignore the message.

  5. Click Next.

  1. Select one of the available organizational units to associate with the environment.

  2. Click Next.

CloudGuard uses a TerraformClosed An infrastructure as code tool that lets you define both cloud and on-prem resources in human-readable configuration files that you can version, reuse, and share. template for policy definition and for permissions to read data in your tenancy. Download the template and follow the wizard instructions to configure your OCI account.

At this stage, you create and run a stack in your OCI account.

Click Done to complete the onboarding procedure.

The new environment appears in the list of all environments. It takes several minutes to see all assets onboarded to CloudGuard.

To remove the OCI environment data from CloudGuard:

  1. On the environment page, click Remove to disconnect the selected environment from CloudGuard.

    A verification window opens.

  2. Click Remove in the verification window.

    If you have active policies on the environment, CloudGuard notifies you that it deletes the policies in line with the environment.

    This process deletes:

    • Policies

    • Notifications

    • Compliance alerts (findings)