In previous post I showed how to perform remote clone with Resource Manager/Terraform/Ansible. What if you just want a quick remote clone to be done manually? Remember OCI Console doesn’t support Remote Cloning at the moment (February 2022) but you can do the remote clone through API’s as well. So let’s do it with OCI…
OCI Block Volume Replication Part 1 – Basics
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 rsync for this, one great advantage with this new feature is that it uses Oracle’s…
OCI CLI scripting fun – bulk deleting Vault secrets
Probably this post as such isn’t useful to many, but I figured since it contains some OCI CLI scripting it might serve as an idea to something else for someone. Recently I got a bunch of OCI Vault keys which had to be loaded to OCI Vault. What happened is of course the load didn’t…
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 shell without any API keys or another instance which is using instance principles how would…
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Dynamic Groups – what are they?
You might have seen dynamic groups mentioned when browsing through OCI console or when you’ve read the documentation. One of the most important things when creating services is handling access to specific services so that your access keys are not compromised. This is one neat way of managing that in the cloud. Instead of storing…
Using oci-cli for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Slow updates recently as I was getting ready to two AWS exams. Happy to announce that I passed both the Solutions Architect Associate and the SysOps Administrator Associate! As I’m working with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as well now then next stop will be to pass the OCI Solutions Architect Associate exam. I think it…