One of the many ways to connect to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is by using an Eclipse toolkit. This is not an extensive plugin that gives you access to every service, but instead a rather easy way of allowing developers to use some of the services – like Object Storage, Compute and Kubernetes.
The official Information can be found here and here!
Download Plugin
The plugin is available in the github repository : https://github.com/oracle/oci-toolkit-eclipse/releases
Install and Configure
Follow the detailed instructions here and once this is done you are ready to use the plugin.
Open the OCI View
This new view will give you all the available options.
You can choose the Data Center…
…and the Compartment from the top right buttons.
Compute
From the Compute Instances screen you can Start/Stop/Reboot the Instances. Quite handy if you want to deploy or connect to an instance as part of the development work one is doing.
Object Storage
You can create a new Bucket and use it to store any artefact – I saved some of my old Java Projects there.
Create an Autonomous Database
Its extremely easy to create and ADB.
Once I fixed the Naming issue (if you look closely, there is a space in the name, which is not allowed), all went smoothly.
Kubernetes
This might be most useful feature – it is possible to deploy docker images directly from Eclipse.
Conclusion
I stumbled upon this plugin as is not as visible as all the other options to connect to OCI. It offers some interesting capabilities, but more important is that it gives yet another option for connectivity (the more the better).
I am not actively using Eclipse but would be interesting to hear from someone that could benefit from this plugin – leave a comment below to share your feedback!