Resolving Oracle Cloud “Out of Capacity” issue and getting free VPS with 4 ARM cores / 24GB of memory (using OCI CLI)

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 still 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).

Starting from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) CLI installation. If you prefer PHP, please look here in my similar tutorial https://hitrov.medium.com/resolving-oracle-cloud-out-of-capacity-issue-and-getting-free-vps-with-4-arm-cores-24gb-of-6ecd5ede6fcc.

Quickstart

Generating API key

After logging in to OCI Console, click profile icon and then “User Settings”