As you might have seen, few weeks ago Oracle announced improved Dynamic Routing Gateway functionality which I was super excited about. Why? Previously when you’ve designed Transit Networking on OCI you’ve always had to use Hub & Spoke model for…
On the part 1 we looked on how to create new block volume on another OCI Region using the new Block Volume Replication feature. While it was really straightforward, in a real Disaster Recovery situation you might want to automate…
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…
We looked on setting up Oracle DNS on part 1, and how you could manage different DNS options with Private Views or DNS listeners & forwarders. In this post I’m gonna look on what options we might have with Custom…
First of all, big thanks for my colleagues Rob and Travis for giving me some good ideas on this post! I usually recommend Transit Networking for most of the implementations as it provides security and scalability for your OCI infrastructure.…
Oracle introduced Cloud Guard some time ago to OCI, in this post I’ll take a brief look what Cloud Guard is and how you can get notified on unwanted changes in your tenancy. As an example, I have a public…
This is more generic post rather than technical. I usually get lot of questions in early phase on how we are going to place compute instances in different Availability Domains (AD’s) for high availability purposes. But first, what is an…
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…
Recently I was creating a DBCS database clone but the creation failed, luckily we could find out the node IPs through support and from the dcs-agent-debug.log we could see following statement failing: When looking this script what it tries to…
This is the second part of my OCI Private DNS posts. You can read the first part from here. In this post I will extend my configuration to have two VCN’s which will be connected via Local Peering Gateways together.…