Oracle Cloud, managed alongside every other cloud you run
Oracle Cloud's Always Free tier is generous enough that plenty of real infrastructure gets built on it quietly, one Compute instance at a time, long before anyone calls it production. Sencai connects to your existing Oracle Cloud account in minutes, inventories what's actually running, and gives you the same provisioning, fleet management, and audit trail you'd get from any other provider - so the setup that got you started doesn't become the thing nobody can explain in a security review.
Connect your Oracle Cloud account
Add Oracle Cloud the same way you'd add any provider in Sencai: paste in API credentials scoped to the compartments you want it to see, and Sencai starts reading within minutes. Credentials are encrypted at rest, and you can revoke access at Oracle at any time - nothing about your account changes on Oracle's side. By default this is bring-your-own-cloud: your contract, your invoice, your relationship with Oracle stays exactly as it is today. If you'd rather not run a separate Oracle relationship at all, Sencai can provision and bill Oracle Cloud capacity under its own account instead - one contract, one invoice, Oracle's cost plus a flat 2% margin shown as its own line item. Both models can sit in the same organisation, so you can start BYOC and add managed capacity later, or the other way round, without committing to one path forever.
See what's already running
Oracle's Always Free tier is generous enough that a lot of real infrastructure gets built on it quietly, one Compute instance and one network at a time, over months, by whoever had five minutes. The moment you connect the account, Sencai inventories what's actually there - instances, networks, storage, and DNS zones - across Oracle Cloud and every other provider you've connected, not just the resources someone remembered to document. Nothing is migrated and nothing changes state as a side effect of being discovered. Each resource shows up flagged for review, and you decide, one at a time, which ones move under active management in Sencai and which stay exactly as they are. For a lot of teams this step is the first honest inventory of an Oracle Cloud footprint that's been growing since before anyone called it production.
The same provisioning workflow as everywhere else
Start, stop, resize, and destroy Oracle Compute instances from the same screen you use for every other cloud in your organisation - no separate console, no Oracle-specific runbook to remember. On any Linux server, Oracle or otherwise, the Sencai fleet agent adds monitoring, patching, software inventory, and approval-gated runbook automation: write an incident response procedure once and run it identically whether it's touching a Compute instance on Oracle, a server at Hetzner, or bare metal in your own rack. For a team whose Oracle footprint grew out of the Always Free tier and now sits next to a couple of other providers, this is the actual point - one workflow that doesn't care which console you'd otherwise be logging into.
An audit trail and a real cost picture
Every action Sencai takes against Oracle Cloud - and against every other provider in the organisation - lands in an append-only, hash-chained audit log. Who changed this, and when, becomes a query you run, not an investigation you launch after the fact, which matters the moment an Oracle Cloud project stops being someone's side experiment and starts needing to answer to a security review or a NIS2 questionnaire. Alongside the audit trail, Sencai gives you cost visibility and anomaly detection across every connected provider in one place, so an Oracle Cloud bill that creeps past what the Always Free tier covers shows up next to your AWS, Hetzner, or Azure spend instead of arriving as a surprise on its own invoice. See how the same evidence supports a compliance review at /platform/security-and-compliance/.
Frequently asked
Does Sencai work with resources on Oracle's Always Free tier?
Yes. Discovery and provisioning treat Always Free resources the same as any paid Oracle Cloud resource - they're inventoried the moment you connect the account and can be brought under active management like anything else. Sencai doesn't change Oracle's own free-tier limits or eligibility; it just gives you one place to see and manage what's running against them.
Do I need to migrate off Oracle Cloud to use Sencai?
No. Connecting an account is read-and-manage, not a migration. Your instances, networks, and storage stay exactly where they are on Oracle Cloud; Sencai reads their state through the API and lets you act on them from one place. Nothing moves unless you separately choose to provision it somewhere else.
Can I run Oracle Cloud next to AWS, Hetzner, or another provider in one organisation?
Yes - that's the default case Sencai is built for. One organisation can hold Oracle Cloud, a hyperscaler, a European provider like Hetzner or OVHcloud, and on-premise servers, all inventoried and managed side by side with the same provisioning workflow, fleet agent, and audit log. See the full provider list at /integrations/.
Does the fleet agent run on Oracle Compute instances?
Yes. Any Linux server running on Oracle Cloud can run the Sencai fleet agent for monitoring, patching, software inventory, and approval-gated runbook automation - the same agent and the same runbooks you'd use on a server at any other provider or on bare metal.
How does billing work if Oracle Cloud runs under Sencai's managed account instead of my own?
You get one invoice from Sencai covering everything provisioned that way, at Oracle's own cost plus a flat 2% margin shown as its own line - never bundled invisibly into a base price. Bring-your-own-cloud and managed billing can coexist in the same organisation if you only want some capacity handled this way.
Connect Oracle Cloud in under 30 minutes
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