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# Provisioning your instances

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**Please note:** OCI does not support this documentation in any way, financial or otherwise.
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Sign into your account and navigate to **Compute > Instances**:

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**Choose your compartment** (you should have the *root* one, created on sign-up):

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Your compute console will look slightly different: I have removed info regarding my account to avoid any confusion. Click **Create Instance**:

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First, give your instance a meaningful **name** (eg Preview-Relay) and then click **Edit** on **Image and Shape:**

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**Change Image** to choose you favourite Linux flavour (Ubuntu 20.04 in this example) and then **Change Shape** to create a Standard VM (A1.Flex) with 1 CPU and 6 GB of RAM:&#x20;

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You can leave the networking options set to default (**Primary and Secondary VNIC**)
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Let OCI **generate a key-pair for you** (you will be changing this later anyway) and set your desired **boot disk** preferences (50 GB should suffice to start):

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**Success:** click on **Create** and wait for the your new instance to provision.
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