Hi and welcome to my blog. My intention with this blog is to explain in a simple and intuitive way how to work with OCI. And to begin with, let's start with one of the key elements of OCI, the compartment. Compartments are logical divisions used to organize the resources in OCI. To draw an analogy, you can think of them like folders in Windows or directories in Linux. Essentially, each element in your environment will be stored in a compartment, and you'll need to access that compartment in the OCI console to locate those elements. Following you can see the main characteristics of the compartments: For all of these reasons, compartments are a powerful feature to ensure security isolation and acccess control in your environment. It is also important to know that child compartments inherit their parents policies. To access to the compartment view in OCI, just navigate to Identity & Security / Compartments, and you will see all the compartments deployed in your environment. A ...