Moved my blog to OCI
Been planning to do this for ages, old blog was using marketplace image in GCP with WordPress, downside was that it was hard/impossible to update components so the old site was running on fumes and not really being something I…
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Oracle Database@Azure Network Highlights
As you know, Oracle Database@Azure has been available now for few years and Microsoft has made awesome advantages in the solution during this time. Some of the things might not be so “hot” but if you work with any of…
Test you can connect to your OCI Streaming endpoint
This is more of a bookmark/reminder, but I ran into issues where we weren’t sure if the SIEM tool being used to ingest data from OCI Streaming is actually able to connect to the stream. I figured there must be…
Configuring OCI VTAP with Guardian to monitor your OT network
This will probably not be useful post for many but if you ever run into this post and it’s useful, let me know! This time I had to get Guardian VM installed on OCI for our OT network to monitor…
Oracle Autonomous Database on GCP – Using gcloud CLI for operations
Continuing testing Oracle Database@Google features, this time I wanted to test provisioning using gcloud CLI on Google and seeing how it works out. Google has documentation on using CLI to provision Autonomous Database (ADB) here: Some of the variables…
OCI Networking – Routing Oracle Services Network Public IPs via Service Gateway
This topic keeps coming up and there are many good blog posts from Oracle and their A-Team on this. As you know, you utilize Oracle Service Gateway to access Oracle Services within the Region. However, you can also broadcast these…
Can I connect with custom private hostname to my Autonomous Database?
Short answer: Yes! When you deploy your Autonomous Database with a private endpoint, you will get endpoint which translates to A record in your VCN. In some cases, you don’t want to relay that oraclecloud.com address further down the road…
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,…
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…
Can you believe it? Provisioning Autonomous Database in GCP!
I bet few years back folks didn’t expect that by 2024 we would be able to provision OCI resources in other clouds. Last year the announcement for Azure and this year announcements for GCP and AWS have been really exciting…