Cloud Engineering · DevOps

VPS Provisioning on Oracle Cloud

A scripted, repeatable server setup for running AI agents and automations.

Status: Prototype
Year: 2026
Role: Builder and operator
Client: Independent project

Overview

An Oracle Cloud Always Free ARM virtual machine (2 OCPU, 12 GB RAM, Ubuntu 24.04) reached over SSH key authentication, with a provisioning script that applies updates, installs the toolchain (Git, build tools, Python, Node.js) and enables a UFW firewall.

Oracle Cloud
Ubuntu Linux
Bash
SSH
UFW

The challenge

Automation and agent workloads need an always-on server that can be rebuilt from scratch, not configured by hand.

System requirements

Single-command provisioning over SSH
Key-based access, with the private key kept out of version control
Firewall enabled during provisioning

Solution architecture

Content needed: architecture, drawn only from documented components

Implementation

Content needed: real screenshots (desktop and mobile). Generated mockups are never shown as screenshots.

Technical decisions

Keep the setup in a script so the server can be rebuilt
Never commit keys; ship an example SSH config instead

Results and validation

Content needed: measured results with period and method. Never estimated.

Evidence

Provisioning script and runbook in a private repository

Lessons learned

Content needed: what you would do differently

Content checklist (remove once filled)

What actually runs on the server (the agent workloads)
Docker, Nginx, HTTPS, backups or monitoring, only if they are really in place. None is evidenced yet
A sanitized diagram. Do not publish the server IP address
No Kubernetes, AWS, Azure or GCP claims without evidence