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Feature Request FR-3384
Product Area Security
Status CLOSED

2 Voters

OCI Instance principal Authentication support in web credentials

sethubalaji.p.b Internal · Sep 21 2023

Idea Summary
Support OCI Instance principal Authentication support in web credentials

Use Case
For APEX in OCI to make internal OCI services API call

We reviewed this idea carefully, and while it was interesting, we concluded that due to all the internal implications we need to take into account, it is not feasible in APEX.

Comments

Comments

  • carsten.czarski APEX Team OP 1.6 years ago

    Resource Principals are not supported for APEX REST Data Sources, APEX_WEB_SERVICE or Web Credentials. The main reason is that these are granted to the very PDB, which does not fit well with the APEX isolation model (multiple isolated workspaces within a PDB). Other reasons are related to the way how APEX uses the UTL_HTTP package, which also does not play well with resource principal.

    So, to use a resource principal, you'd need to work with PL/SQL and the DBMS_CLOUD package. For a REST Data Source you'd need to use OCI API keys for authentication.