Provisioning an instance

Like every browser control panel in the world this one is awful so good luck!

Find and select "instances", add new instance and keep everything "always free eligible". Be sure to switch to a pay as you go account before trying to provision an instance!

Image and shape

Image: 
Canonical Ubuntu 24.04 Minimal aarch64

Shape:
VM.Standard.A1.Flex 4 CPUs 24 GB RAM

Add SSH keys

Save the generated private key

Boot volume

Specify a custom boot volume size to 200 Gb (Max for always free resources)

That should be enough! Always free resources are scarce and you could get the annoying out of capacity message. Be sure to switch to a pay as you go account.

If you still get out of capacity errors try and setup a script https://bestofphp.com/repo/hitrov-oci-arm-host-capacity that will spam the oracle server each minute.