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…
When I started to use Terraform I quickly adapted on concept of using modules with it. Why? Because in my opinion the more you can automate and standardize the easier overall management of your solution becomes. So what are modules…
Feels like I’m jumping bit from topic to another but I had some testing ongoing with OCI Load Balancing service so thought to write a post on it. I’ll also throw few comparisons with AWS ELB so it gives an…
When you create your VCN (Virtual Cloud Network) in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure so that you have a virtual network for your compute servers you then create subnets under the VCN. The subnets will contain part of CIDR block you have…
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…