Resolving Oracle Cloud “Out of Capacity” issue and getting free VPS with 4 ARM cores / 24GB of memory (using PHP)
Very neat and useful configuration was recently announced at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) blog as a part of Always Free tier. Unfortunately, as of July 2021, it’s very complicated to launch an instance due to the “Out of Capacity” error. Here we’re solving that issue as Oracle constantly adds capacity from time to time.
Each tenancy gets the first 3,000 OCPU hours and 18,000 GB hours per month for free to create Ampere A1 Compute instances using the VM.Standard.A1.Flex shape (equivalent to 4 OCPUs and 24 GB of memory).This approach requires PHP 7.4 | 8.0 | 8.1 and composer installed and will call “LaunchInstance” OCI API endpoint. We’ll utilise the package which I’ve written (and published) some time ago, here’s the article.
YouTube video instruction https://youtu.be/uzAqgjElc64 is a bit outdated regarding Configuration but still can be useful for the rest.
If you prefer using OCI CLI instead, please refer to https://hitrov.medium.com/resolving-oracle-cloud-out-of-capacity-issue-and-getting-free-vps-with-4-arm-cores-24gb-of-a3d7e6a027a8
