To establish a secure and organized cloud environment, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) offers multi-tenancy, a feature that allows multiple customers to utilize a shared infrastructure while maintaining isolation and autonomy. OCI’s multi-tenancy model is designed to provide enterprise-grade security and compliance, empowering businesses to seamlessly manage their cloud resources and workloads.
At the core of OCI’s multi-tenancy architecture lies the concept of parent and child tenancies. Parent tenancies serve as the root of the multi-tenant hierarchy, enabling the creation and management of multiple child tenancies. Child tenancies inherit security policies and billing from their parent, providing a simplified and consolidated management structure. This hierarchical model allows organizations to establish a well-defined governance framework, ensuring compliance and efficient resource utilization.
How to Create a Parent Tenant
Prerequisites
- You must be an administrator in the organization where you want to create the parent tenant.
- You must have the following permissions:
- tenancy.create
- tenancy.manage
Instructions
- Sign in to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console. (https://console.cloud.oracle.com/).
- Click the Tenancy menu icon ( ≡ ).
- Click the Tenancies link.
- In the Tenancies list, click Create Tenancy .
- In the Create Tenancy dialog box, enter the following information:
- **Name**: Enter a name for the tenancy.
- **Identifier**: Optionally, enter an identifier for the tenancy.
- Type: The tenancy type can be either root or child. Select Parent for Type .
- **Default home region**: Select the default home region for the tenancy.
- **Default billing contact**: Select the default billing contact for the tenancy.
- Click Create .
The new parent tenancy is created.
People Also Ask About OCI How to Create Parent Tenant
What is a parent tenancy?
A parent tenancy is a tenancy that can have child tenancies. Child tenancies are separate, isolated environments that can be used to organize and manage your cloud resources. Creating a parent tenancy allows you to manage multiple child tenancies from a single, central console.
What are the benefits of using a parent tenancy?
There are several benefits to using a parent tenancy:
- Centralized management: You can manage multiple child tenancies from a single console, which simplifies administration and reduces costs.
- Isolation: Child tenancies are isolated from each other, which helps to improve security and compliance.
- Resource sharing: You can share resources between child tenancies, which can help to reduce costs and improve efficiency.
- Billing: You can consolidate billing for multiple child tenancies, which simplifies accounting and reduces costs.
