Overview

  • VCNs regional
  • Subnets—can be regional, or scoped to individual Availability Domains (ADs)

Example

oci_vcn_example

Firewalls

Security Lists

  • Legacy
  • Virtual firewalls for compute instances
  • Set of ingress and egress rules applied to all VNICs in a subnet

Network Security Groups (NSGs)

  • More granular configuration than Security Lists
  • Applied to specific VNICs—firewall rules apply only to resources within NSG

Gateways

  • Dynamic Routing Gateway
    • Transit hub entity
    • Interconnect VCNs within a region
    • Terminates IPSec VPNs and FastConnect circuits
  • Service Gateway
    • Allows access to supported Oracle services in the same region as the VCN
  • Internet Gateway
    • Provides a path for the network traffic between the VCN and the internet
  • NAT Gateways
    • Allows resources in private subnets to access the internet

Dynamic Routing Gateway (DRG)

  • Hub gateway—up to 300 attachments
  • Four attachment types:
    • VCN attachments
    • Remote Peering Connection (RPC) attachments (DRG peering)
    • IPSec attachments
    • FastConnect attachments

FastConnect

  • Private circuit connection to on-prem
  • Two types:
    • Private peering—access to VCN resources using private IPs
    • Public peering—access to public OCI services or public IPs in public subnets

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