Bypass the Oracle free-tier limitation of running only Linux distributions provided by Oracle by sideloading a QCOW2 image to a boot volume and attaching it to a new instance.

Decided to write up a quick post on a hacky workaround I came up with for custom distros Oracle free tier and thought I’d share. Don’t rely on Oracle, but definitely do leverage as much of their free compute as you can for non-critical workloads!