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The Swiss Army Knife for Enterprise Cloud Ops

As Cloud-Ops engineers, we constantly answer questions about the status, distribution of resources in the cloud to both ourselves and from other teams that need this information or need help. In Enterprise tenancies, cloud resources are not necessarily organized in the best way to query it for reporting or quickly running errands. The resources are mostly organized in a way to provide strong isolation and implementing principles of least privilege access using IAM Primitives in a multi-team environment. In a typical enterprise, there are several stakeholders who have access to levels of access to resources organized using IAM Primitives such as Compartments, Tags, Policies, Groups etc.

This post is about leveraging, OCI-Search, OCI-CLI, Cloud Shell and JQ to help Ops Engineers answer questions about Cloud Infrastructure better and make Cloud Operations easier.