Deploy VibeCody on Oracle Cloud (FREE)

Oracle Cloud’s always-free tier provides 4 ARM OCPU + 24 GB RAM — enough to run VibeCody with Mistral 7B at $0/month forever.

Why Oracle Cloud?

• 4 Arm-based Ampere A1 cores (always free)
• 24 GB RAM (always free) — enough for 7B parameter models
• 200 GB block storage (always free)
• No credit card charges after free trial (free tier is permanent)

Quick Start

cd vibecody/deploy/oracle-cloud
./setup.sh --tier lite

Prerequisites

• Oracle Cloud account (sign up at cloud.oracle.com)
• OCI CLI installed (oci setup config)
• Terraform installed

Step-by-Step

1. Get Your IDs

# Compartment ID
oci iam compartment list --query "data[0].id" --raw-output

# Availability domain
oci iam availability-domain list --query "data[0].name" --raw-output

# Subnet ID (create a VCN first if needed)
oci network subnet list --compartment-id YOUR_COMPARTMENT_ID --query "data[0].id" --raw-output

2. Deploy

cd deploy/oracle-cloud
terraform init
terraform apply \
  -var="compartment_id=ocid1.compartment..." \
  -var="availability_domain=AD-1" \
  -var="subnet_id=ocid1.subnet..." \
  -var="tier=max"  # max tier fits in free tier!

3. Verify

IP=$(terraform output -raw public_ip)
curl http://$IP:7878/health

Tiers (All Fit in Free Tier!)

Always-On

Oracle Cloud Container Instances run 24/7 by default. No additional configuration needed.

Remote Access

The container instance gets a public IP. For HTTPS, add a load balancer or use Cloudflare Tunnel.

Teardown

./teardown.sh

Troubleshooting

What’s Next

• Use Cases

  Configuration