Introducing OGOVERN, the Governance Layer for OCI

As organizations accelerate their migration and development on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), the need for a centralized, customizable governance layer becomes critical. While OCI provides robust native controls, managing compliance, cost, and asset inventory across large, complex tenancies often requires a dedicated solution.

OGovern: Cloud Governance

OGOVERN is designed to fill this gap, acting as a unified platform to enforce standards and best practices across your entire OCI footprint across multiple regions. We are excited to announce the launch of OGovern —a customizable, centralized cloud governance layer designed specifically for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

Need for a Tailored Solution

OGovern is a custom tool, built on Oracle APEX and ATP, that is tailored to your cloud architecture and policies and integrates directly with OCI-native services.

Our primary goal is to create a governance layer that allows you to:

• Enforce best practices
• Improve compliance
• Automate reporting and alerts
• Ensure continuous service availability

Key Pillars of Cloud Governance

OGovern's framework is built around multiple key pillars to provide comprehensive cloud control.

• Financial Management: Ensures cost transparency, control, and accountability for cloud spending.
• Operations & Performance: Delivers resilient, scalable, and predictable operations, and optimizes application performance.
• Security & Compliance: Protects cloud workloads and ensures compliance with internal and external regulations.
• Data Governance: Governs data lifecycle, availability, and accessibility.
• Asset & Configuration Management: Maintains an accurate inventory and ensures configurations meet standards.

Core OGovern Modules and Capabilities

OGovern offers essential modules that address the daily requirements of cloud operations:

1. Resource Module (Asset and Configuration Management)

This module provides a central view and control point for all OCI resources.

• Resources Dashboard: Offers a central view where users can group, filter, and drill down into detailed inventory insights. You can see summary cards for Total Resources, Compute, Databases, and Object Storage grouped by OCI service type & Utilization/progress bar for daily cost usage.
• Resource Inventory: Provides a detailed, searchable, and sortable table of all discovered OCI assets with columns like Service Type, Resource Name, Compartment, and Lifecycle State.
• Resource Management: Allows users to view, manage, and act on OCI resources, including the ability to Start/Stop resources directly and Schedule Uptime/Downtime through an approval workflow.

2. Compliance Module (Security and Compliance Management)

The Compliance Dashboard offers continuous visibility into OCI resource compliance, helping with proactive risk mitigation.

• Storage Compliance: Tracks encryption and backup enablement for Boot Volume, Block Volume, and Object Storage.
• Database Compliance: Validates encryption and backup schedules for DBCS and Autonomous Database (ADB) instances.
• Network Compliance: Identifies open ports, publicly exposed rules, and flags public IP assignments.
• IAM Compliance: Detects overly permissive IAM policies and monitors MFA enablement and role assignments for users.

3. Cost Module (Financial Management)

Uncontrolled cloud spending is a leading challenge for enterprises. OGOVERN’s Cost Module transforms OCI financial management from a reactive, end-of-month scramble into a proactive, continuous control process. The Cost Usage Dashboard is designed to provide visibility into spending trends, support budget control, and highlight critical optimization opportunities. Gain visibility into your cloud spending trends and support budget control.

• Monthly Cost Usage: Displays the total cost incurred per month across the tenancy with bar/line charts and date range filters.
• Cost Usage by Service: Breaks down the total cost by OCI service (e.g., Compute, Storage) using pie or donut charts.

By providing granular cost data and actionable insights, OGOVERN empowers finance teams, project managers, and engineers to collaborate effectively, ensuring every dollar spent in OCI is transparent, controlled, and aligned with business value.

4. Admin Module (Access Management)

This module handles crucial administrative tasks:

• Manage OCI Credentials: Securely captures and stores OCI API credentials (Tenancy OCID, User OCID, Fingerprint, Private Key) required to interact with the target tenancy. Only Admins can update these tenant-scoped credentials.
• Manage Users: Enables user signup, email verification, user invitation by admins, role assignment, and profile updates, including the ability for admins to deactivate users.
• Manage Access: Controls user access to specific features and resources, primarily through compartment restrictions. Current roles include

OGovern is your solution for achieving Cloud Governance Streamlined.

Sample Screens:

Click here for Govern Application Walkthrough.