Use Cloud Shell in Oracle Cloud

[neitsab]

As mentioned in #101, I used OCI Cloud Shell to perform Cloudblock install. I want to discuss the pros and cons of this approach:

• pros: no need to install git, terraform, oci-cli... Everything is there already. We may also make use of the already existing authentication (?)
• cons: see limits. To summarize, it is in the end a temporary environment holding precious/sensitive data (private key...), and without connection for several months will get destroyed.

It does offer to upload/download files from the menu, so anything sensitive/precious can be retrieved easily.

I'd say that to avoid installing the ridiculous oci-cli on one's local system, it is kind of worth it!

Any inputs on this topic?

[chadgeary]

Overall, this would be an excellent use case for cloudshell. I agree it would be a better experience compared to local tool installation. That said, neither cloudshell nor my guide do a good job handling the terraform state file. If the current guide as written was re-written for cloudshell and mentioned copying the state somewhere secure I'd be cool with it.