MySQL, the world’s most popular open source database, is available as a managed cloud service in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) under the name of MySQL Database Service (MDS).

MySQL Database Service is a fully managed cloud service, 100% Developed, Managed and Supported by the MySQL Team.

This is the third episode of “Discovering MySQL Database Service“, a series of tutorials where I will show you, step by step, how to use MySQL Database Service and some other Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services.

Please also note that you can run this tutorial and thus try MySQL Database Service & the other Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services for free by starting your 30-day trial.

Episode 3 – Create a Virtual Cloud Network

In the previous episode we’ve created our compartment, the foundation stone, of the architecture that we will build during this Discovering MySQL Database Service journey.

In this episode, we’ll see what is a Virtual Cloud Network (VCN) and how to create one and use it.

Virtual Cloud Network (VCN)

Oracle Virtual Cloud Networks (VCNs) provide customizable and private cloud networks in OCI.
Just like a traditional data center network, the VCN provides customers with complete control over their cloud networking environment. This includes assigning private IP address spaces, creating subnets and route tables, and configuring stateful firewalls.
For more information please see VCNs and Subnets.

Create a Virtual Cloud Network

If you are a network expert, OCI provides you the tools and the granularity to create your VCN.

if, like me, your are not an expert and/or if you want to quickly create a VCN with all the relevant component, the VCN Wizard is the right feature for you.

The VCN wizard will:

• Creates a VCN.
• Creates an internet gateway, NAT gateway, and service gateway for the VCN.
• Creates a regional public subnet with routing to the internet gateway. Instances in a public subnet may optionally have public IP addresses.
• Creates a regional private subnet with routing to the NAT gateway and service gateway (and therefore the Oracle Services Network). Instances in a private subnet cannot have public IP addresses.
• Sets up basic security list rules for the two subnets, including SSH access.

Brilliant! This is exactly what we need.

Select Create VCN with Internet Connectivity from the VCN Wizard.
It creates a VCN with a public subnet that can be reached from the internet. Also creates a private subnet that can connect to the internet through a NAT gateway, and also privately connect to the Oracle Services Network.

To summarize we will have the following component:

• VCN
• Public Subnet
• Private Subnet
• Internet Gateway (IG)
• NAT Gateway (NAT)
• Service Gateway (SG)

You should provide a name for the VCN – Demo_VCN in this example.

Check that the compartment is the good one, the one we’ve created in the previous episode – DBA in this example.

The VCN and subnet default configuration should be fine.

After clicking on the Next button, you can review your configuration:

Click on Create when you are ready…

Et voilà!

You should end up with something that looks like:

Among others an IPv4 CIDR block (10.0.0.0/16) and 2 subnets (private in 10.0.1.0/24 and public in 10.0.0.0/24)

Well, that’s all for today!
In this episode we have created an already configured Virtual Cloud Network for use with MySQL DB Systems.

Next episode is:

Dump your MySQL data into an Object Storage bucket

Resources

• MySQL Database Service (MDS)
• Documentation of MySQL Database Service
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Glossary
• Oracle Cloud Free Tier
• VCNs and Subnets
• Virtual Networking Quickstart
• MySQL — The world’s most popular open source database

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