On part 1 of the DRG version 2 we looked on basics and how you can control which VCN can be accessed and how, regardless if the source is through FastConnect, VPN Connect, VCN or Remote Peering Connection (another DRG).…
Let’s talk about new OCI Cross-Region Block Volume Replication! I wanted to test this feature out as it can provide much needed help when you need to build your Disaster Recovery environment on different Region. In earlier cases we’ve used…
First of all, big thanks for my colleagues Rob and Travis for giving me some good ideas on this post! I usually recommend Transit Networking for most of the implementations as it provides security and scalability for your OCI infrastructure.…
Oracle introduced Cloud Guard some time ago to OCI, in this post I’ll take a brief look what Cloud Guard is and how you can get notified on unwanted changes in your tenancy. As an example, I have a public…
This is more generic post rather than technical. I usually get lot of questions in early phase on how we are going to place compute instances in different Availability Domains (AD’s) for high availability purposes. But first, what is an…
Recently I was creating a DBCS database clone but the creation failed, luckily we could find out the node IPs through support and from the dcs-agent-debug.log we could see following statement failing: When looking this script what it tries to…
This is the second part of my OCI Private DNS posts. You can read the first part from here. In this post I will extend my configuration to have two VCN’s which will be connected via Local Peering Gateways together.…
I’ve wanted to write something about this topic for quite a while and finally OCI has released it’s first step of Private DNS capabilities! Why do I think this is a big thing? For example let’s say you need to…
This is just a short post but something I was struggling to figure out. I wanted to open port 80 while starting up OCI Linux 7.8 instance and was using cloud-init portion what you have in the advanced section when…
With the recent announcement of Observability and Management platform I thought it’s good to try out how can we fetch logs from provisioned instances in OCI. In this post I’ll be making sure the instance I’m using has the Monitoring…