Create a Oracle Cloud Compartment
By Chris Bensen
If you prefer you can read this blog post on GitHub here.
A Compartment is useful when you want to organize and isolate your cloud resources. This is the same reason you have boxes and drawers at home or carry things around in a backpack. Think of it like a Folder on your computer’s file system.
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- Click the menu icon in the upper left corner.
- Scroll to the bottom, under Identity, click Compartments (or in the search bar, type Compartments):

3. Click Create Compartment.

4. Populate the Name and Description fields.
5. Leave the parent compartment set to (root), unless you want the compartment to be a sub compartment.
6. Click Create Compartment.

7. Click the Oracle Cloud logo to return to the dashboard.
Pretty simple, right?
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