What is the first step in setting up the practice environment for Select AI?

Establishing a practice environment for Select AI involves a few preparatory steps, and creating an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) compartment is foundational. This compartment acts as a logical container for cloud resources, serving as a way to organize and manage your cloud environment.

By optionally creating an OCI compartment as the first step, you are setting up a dedicated space for resources specifically related to OCI Generative AI or other related projects. This organizational method is crucial for managing permissions, isolating resources, and ensuring that the services you deploy are effectively compartmentalized, which helps in maintaining clarity and control over your environment.

Following this step, creating a policy to enable access to OCI Generative AI would be necessary, but it logically comes after the compartment has been established. Dropping compartments that do not use OCI Generative AI would not be a preliminary step in setting up the environment; rather, it pertains more to resource management than to initial setup. Thus, starting with the creation of a compartment is the most sensible first action for setting up a practice environment for Select AI.