New Console Experience for OCI
Just saw that OCI has enabled preview for new OCI Console experience. To enable it, scroll down on your dashboard after login and click on the enable preview. Let’s take a look on it! When I login to the Console,…
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OCI CLI work – getting Cloud Guard risk levels via script
I recently got a requirement to get all Cloud Guard recipes and their rule risk levels printed out. I could go and get them one by one from the Console but thought it’s doable via OCI CLI. Looking the CLI…
Connecting to Autonomous Database Running on Google Cloud
Last time I showed how to provision Autonomous Database Serverless (ADB-S) on Google Cloud. This time I have provisioned a new ADB and want to see how I can connect from my VM running on the same VPC as the…
IP Address Insights with CLI
My previous post on IP Address Insights I mentioned it wasn’t yet available with CLI but I was wrong! It was there, just my Cloud Shell CLI version wasn’t the latest so didn’t have the command yet available. If you…
Thoughts on Oracle Database@Azure
This will NOT be a technical walkthrough on Oracle Database@Azure but rather my opinions and thoughts on how it will shape the Oracle workload destinations when migrating out from on-premises. Once I get few technical implementations under my belt, I’ll…
OCI Vulnerability Scanning Setup
Many times when you work for someone, they already have their own vulnerability scanning throughout the organization. What usually happens is that onboarding to that tooling might take time, that’s why I initially started to look on OCI Vulnerability Scanning…
OCI IP Address Insights
Recently OCI announced small but VERY useful service, IP Address Insights. Why this matters? I’ve run into multiple issues where we have VCNs and subnets deployed and don’t have any visibility on how many IP addresses are currently allocated on…
OCI Network Firewall – Real World problems
I recently hit an issue with OCI Network Firewall that we had configured with NAT GW (see previous posts on it). We expected only to use it for egress traffic from OCI to public internet from our private compute VMs…
Installing OCI Network Firewall – Allowing traffic via policies
Now that we have designed and installed our OCI Network Firewall we’re ready to allow some traffic through the firewall. What you’ll end up doing is to modifying policies which are applied to the firewall. How it works is that…
Installing OCI Network Firewall – Provisioning and Configuration
Now we’re going to follow the initial design I laid out here. We already have networking provisioned, so next step will be to use OCI Console and provision our OCI Network Firewall. Once we’ve provisioned it, I’ll see what happens…