OCI Visual Builder Config Builder

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Build Visual Builder Studio project configurations with instance settings and build pipelines.

Last verified: May 2026

OCI Visual Builder Studio Configuration

Build Visual Builder Studio project configurations with instance settings, team members, and build pipelines.

Required Fields

compartmentIddisplayNamevbInstance.displayNamevbInstance.nodeCount

{
  "compartmentId": "ocid1.compartment.oc1..aaaaaaaexample",
  "displayName": "vb-studio-project",
  "description": "Visual Builder Studio project for internal enterprise applications",
  "vbInstance": {
    "displayName": "prod-vb-instance",
    "nodeCount": 2,
    "isVisualBuilderEnabled": true,
    "idcsOpenId": "https://identity.oraclecloud.com/example",
    "customEndpoint": {
      "hostname": "apps.example.com",
      "certificateSecretId": "ocid1.vaultsecret.oc1.iad.aaaaaaaexample"
    },
    "networkEndpointDetails": {
      "networkEndpointType": "PRIVATE",
      "subnetId": "ocid1.subnet.oc1.iad.aaaaaaaexample",
      "nsgIds": ["ocid1.networksecuritygroup.oc1.iad.aaaaaaaexample"]
    }
  },
  "projectConfig": {
    "projectName": "enterprise-apps",
    "teamMembers": [
      {
        "email": "dev1@example.com",
        "role": "DEVELOPER"
      },
      {
        "email": "admin@example.com",
        "role": "PROJECT_OWNER"
      }
    ],
    "gitRepository": {
      "repositoryUrl": "https://devops.example.com/repo/enterprise-apps.git",
      "branch": "main",
      "credentialSecretId": "ocid1.vaultsecret.oc1.iad.aaaaaaaexample"
    }
  },
  "buildPipeline": {
    "displayName": "vb-app-build",
    "stages": [
      {
        "stageName": "build",
        "stageType": "BUILD",
        "buildSpecFile": "build_spec.yaml"
      },
      {
        "stageName": "deploy-dev",
        "stageType": "DEPLOY",
        "environment": "development"
      }
    ]
  },
  "freeformTags": {
    "platform": "visual-builder",
    "team": "app-dev"
  }
}

Generated Output

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How It Helps

Build Visual Builder Studio project configurations with instance settings and build pipelines. This tool helps OCI engineers generate valid configurations quickly without consulting documentation, reducing errors and accelerating infrastructure deployment. All processing runs in your browser with no data sent to external servers.

Things Engineers Ask

Does this tool connect to my OCI account?

No. This tool runs entirely in your browser and generates configuration JSON that you can copy and paste into your infrastructure-as-code templates, CLI commands, or cloud console. It never connects to any cloud account or sends data externally.

Are the generated configurations production-ready?

The tool produces syntactically valid configurations based on current OCI service specifications. Always review generated configs against your organization security policies and test in a non-production environment before deploying.

In Practice

Your ops team needs an internal app for managing customer support escalations. Building from scratch with React + Express + Postgres = 4-6 weeks. The builder generates a VB Studio project: visual UI designer for the form-heavy admin app, REST connectors to Oracle Database for storage, identity domain integration for SSO. Working app in ~1 week of development. The trade-off: locked into Oracle ecosystem for this app, but for an internal tool that's acceptable.

Practical Applications

1Generating oci visual configurations for new infrastructure deployments.
2Validating existing configurations against best practices before applying changes.
3Learning OCI service configuration patterns through interactive examples.
4Accelerating infrastructure-as-code development by producing correct JSON/YAML starting points.

Behind the Scenes

The builder constructs Visual Builder Studio project configurations: VB Studio instance resource (compartment, identity domain reference for SSO, custom URL config), project setup (Git repo provider, code language: JavaScript or TypeScript, build pipelines, deployment targets), and identity provider integration. Output is generated as oci visual-builder commands and Terraform oci_visual_builder_vb_instance resources.

Things the Docs Don’t Tell You

TIP

Visual Builder Studio is OCI's low-code platform for building enterprise apps with visual UI design + standard JavaScript/TypeScript. Best fit: internal admin apps, customer portals, simple CRUD interfaces. NOT a fit for: high-performance apps, real-time systems, complex custom UI.

TIP

VB Studio integrates tightly with Oracle Fusion Cloud Apps and Oracle Database. If your team is in the Oracle ecosystem, VB Studio is the path of least resistance. For non-Oracle stacks, vanilla React/Vue with backend APIs is usually a better fit.

TIP

Build pipelines in VB Studio support standard CI/CD patterns (build, test, deploy). For OCI-only deployments, this works well; for hybrid deployments, use OCI DevOps or external CI/CD tools and call VB Studio APIs.

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