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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ZDM migration to Autonomous Database on GCP using Network Link for direct migration – part 1
This will be a weird and fun post. I have recently been working with Autonomous Database migrations and wanted to highlight the option of using Oracle datapump (ZDM Logical Offline) and network link option. Using network link removes the need…
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…
Autonomous Database Audit Logs to Logging Service Part 1
I recently came across requirement to get OCI Oracle Autonomous Database audit logs to OCI Logging Service, mainly due to getting them to external SIEM system. Typically once we get the logs to Logging, we can use OCI Service Connector…
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…