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 resources in your OCI tenancy. And actually tenancy is the root compartment of your compartments!…
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 0.12. In this post I will once again create those instances but now the modules…
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 get more details on Autoscaling then please read the older post and remarks I’ve made…
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 clear and available here. In short what you need to do is setup user with…
OCI Events Service – perform actions when events happen in your services
Oracle Events Service in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure came available in OCI Console recently, I was part of the limited availability program but couldn’t test it as much as I wanted since the service was only available on certain US region where we didn’t have any use at that point in time. However right now it…
Rewriting Terraform security list configuration in OCI with Terraform 0.12
I’ve been a big fan of Terraform for quite some time but one of the things I have been complaining about has been some things which have not been possible when you use Terraform modules. Why do we use modules? It gives us a way to reuse our code so that each resource creation is…
Use OCI Notification Service to get informed on your Autonomous Database scaling events
This post will be mainly about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Notification Service, the Autonomous Database scaling is just used to demonstrate what you can do with the notification service. So what is Notification Service? It’s a service where you can create different topics where you publish messages to set of subscribers. Depending on your configuration you…
Security in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and why you should care less about it
I recently attended Accenture’s Oracle leadership council and was asked to speak about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure security. I’ve said that I’m definitely not an expert on security and that’s why the subject was actually a cool one to speak about! If you’ve used any of the major cloud providers (Azure, AWS, GCP) you know the…
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…
Taking a ride with OCI autoscaling and instance pools
Some time ago Oracle Cloud Infrastructure introduced features around autoscaling and instance pools. This in short means you have an instance pool which uses image from the instance configuration you have defined. Instance pool has minimum number of instances you want to keep running and with autoscaling you can add scaling out or in depending…