OCI Private DNS part 1 – Configuration
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…
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OCI Linux and opening firewall ports with bootstrap
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…
Setting up Custom Logs in OCI
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…
OCI list instances requiring maintenance from Cloud Shell
We had question to come up how to list OCI Compute instances which are requiring maintenance quickly and I found an excellent script from Radu Dobrinescu written in Python. But if I would like to run it quickly in cloud…
Create multiple compartments in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform module
This time I wanted to show how simple it is to create multiple compartments with one module using Terraform 0.12. Compartments in OCI are way to separate your resources and control access on them, you can also move resources around…
How I studied for the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2019 Certified Architect Professional 1Z0-997
Earlier this week I took the 1Z0-997 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2019 Certified Architect Professional. In this post I’ll try to share on how I studied on the test and what areas I feel helped me on passing the certification. I…
OGB Appreciation Day: OCI Compartments
Oracle Groundbreaker’s Appreciation day time. Read more about from here! I’m a fan of looking “dull” features of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and thought Compartments would fit right into it on #ThanksOGB day. Compartments are way to control access and separate…
Create three instances with Terraform 0.12 and dynamic modules in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
I have an old post how to create three instances in OCI with modules using Terraform 0.11 but since 0.12 came out I’ve been wanting to rewrite it to show what we can achieve with new features introduced in TF…
OCI Autoscaling with Events Service and Terraform 0.12
Some time ago I published a post where I took a test drive with OCI Autoscaling. Now after an eventful summer I think it’s time to retest Autoscaling mainly due to some enhancements we have seen. If you want to…
Configuring OCI Email Delivery with OCI Exadata to send emails
I had a task to configure email sending from our OCI Exadata recently and having done it earlier for on-premise Exadata I was expecting a trivial task. Not so fast! First of all OCI documentation for the Email Delivery is…