Here’s a detailed tutorial on how to setup and run Oracle Cloud Free Tier.

Ain’t this too good to be true. Two things you have to be wary about:

1. It’s from Oracle, depends on you if you trust that name. But I worry how long will it remain free.
2. It’s running on ARM, so your favorite docker app might not be compatible.

Out of Capacity

So I tried sigining up for Oracle Free Tier VM instance, and of course I bumped into the dreaded ‘Out of capacity for shape … in availability domain …’

Indeed, too good to be true!