OCVS Internet Access

Okay, so we have our Oracle Cloud VMware Solution (OCVS) up and running, we can connect to the vCenter, NSX Manager etc. and have started to deploy workloads inside the SDDC, that’s awesome! But, now we want to be able to connect to the Internet from those workloads, and, just maybe, connect to them from the Internet. In this post, we’ll look at the steps needed to enable our workload VMs to access the Internet. Then, in the second post in this series, we’ll err… break that, hurriedly fix it (while hoping nobody noticed it was us), and enhance the Internet access to allow us to publish services to the Internet from the SDDC.

In the last exciting instalment, we saw our heroes bravely reaching out to explore the Internet! But what if the Internet wants to come visit us? Or in slightly less Sci-Fi movie language, we want to publish services from OCVS out to the Internet? Well, we have a bunch of the parts already assembled, but we’ll need to change some, scale some, and do even more NAT! Read on for the conclusion next instalment* of our gripping story…