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Identity and access Management - OCI

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 OCI -IAM  OCI IAM deals with more secured and interesting features or entities when compared to other cloud competitors. I would like to share some brief information about OCI IAM.  IAM enables you to control what type of access a group of users have and to which specific resources resource is a cloud object that you create and use it in OCI  Each OCI has unique Oracle-assigned Identifier called as OCID IAM uses traditional identity concepts such as principals, users, Groups, AuthN, AuthZ and introduces new capability called Compartment Principal -> it is an IAM entity that is allowed to interact with OCI resources , infact it is a kind of permission users -> it is a persistent identity setup through IAM service to represent individual people  Group -> it is a collection of users  Instance principals -> It will allow OCI instances to make API calls against other OCI services removing the need to configure user credentials or a configuration fil...