Connecting Django to Oracle Cloud Database

Creating an Oracle Cloud Free Tier Account and Provisioning a Database

Start by either singing in, or creating a new account at OCI Cloud Free Tier
Under the hamburger menu in the top left, select Oracle Database, then select Autonomous Database.
Click on Create Autonomous Database.
Change your Display Name and Database Name (The name must contain only letters and numbers, starting with a letter. Maximum of 30 characters.) to whatever you like.
For Workload type i generally select Transaction Processing as alot of these little tutorials are not processing huge queries over massive datasets.
Configure the database - Select Always Free.
Create administrator credentials - I generally always leave this as ADMIN and give it a good password you wont forget.
Choose network access - I always select Secure access from everywhere and ensure that Require mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication is selected.
Then click Create Autonomous Database at the bottom of the page. It will take about a minute or so for the Cloud DB to provision.
Once the databse has provisioned, click on your database name and then select Database Connection.
Download client credentials (Wallet) - for Wallet Type_ select Instant Wallet, then download the Wallet. It will ask you to input a password to create it. Do so, and remember the password.