One of the biggest reasons we started to use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure was that we could get Exadata provisioned for our use. We already had on-premise setup but to get similar setup in the cloud was important. I’m going to…
While we want to provision most of the things through Infrastructure as Code and use Terraform with our Oracle Cloud Infrastructure we also had to make sure each change will be properly tested before moving to production. So what is…
First time I’m taking part of Oracle Development Community Appreciation Day which Tim Hall has created to post about technology you use daily. My topic will be Terraform which is still fairly new technology for me after having used it…
So we already know how to spin up instances with and without Terraform but what about when you need to attach a block volume to your fresh instance which you’ve created? You have an option to login to console and…
In Oracle Cloud Infrastructure you have two options to tag your resources, defined tags which are setup by your administrator or free form tags which can be applied by any user who has access to a resource. So why should…
Recently Oracle announced Service Gateway for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). One of the problematic areas what I have found with OCI is that if you use Object Storage for example for your database backups you have been required to have…
Edit: Since this post was written a while ago I’ve written a new example with Terraform 0.12, much cleaner code with modules and code used available in Github. Since I’ve become a big fan of modules a case where you…
One of the most important areas with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is that you can utilize Oracle databases easily as part of your infrastructure. There are different options how you can provision the databases but as Terraform is the supported orchestration…
I’ve said it before and I’ll state it once more. One of the best services with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is Identity & Access Management. Oracle has made managing your tenancy really easy with compartments and policies. With compartments you can…
Earlier this week I took the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Architect Associate certification 1Z0-932 which I had been studying for few months while using OCI at the same time. Glad to say I passed it with good score to leave…