My OCI sandbox factory now installs on a Free Tier account, with no card
Every time I showed people the thing I built — a chat that spins up Oracle Cloud sandboxes and deletes them when their time is up — the reply was the same. Nice, but I would need a paid tenancy and an admin to try it, so I won't. That was fair. So I made a Free Tier edition. Pick Edition: free on the install form and it runs on an Oracle Cloud Free Tier account with no payment method attached ,…
A chat application that creates and deletes Oracle Cloud sandboxes has been adapted for use with a Free Tier account, eliminating the need for a paid tenancy or payment method. The Free Tier version runs on Oracle Cloud resources that are part of the Always Free offering, which includes an Autonomous Database, NoSQL tables, object storage, and containerized applications.
The system utilizes an Always Free Arm VM with 2 OCPUs and 12 GB of memory, and an assistant API that uses Google Gemini's free key from AI Studio instead of OCI's Generative AI. The factory does not support certain features like Kafka, Functions, Data Flow, Data Catalog, Queue API Gateway, and extra Container Instances, as these are not included with the Always Free tier.
The factory allows only one database per tenancy, and Always Free capacity is shared, meaning resources can become unavailable during peak usage. To install the Free Tier edition, users must launch a Resource Manager stack in their Oracle Cloud region, which takes approximately 15 minutes. The repository and a "Deploy" button are available on GitHub for those interested in exploring the setup process.
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