Category: Oracle Cloud
In two previous articles I have described how I have implemented my static web application, served from GitHub Pages, with EntraId authentication and data available only to authenticated users …
In this article I will share what I could not find (exactly) in the documentation and what my AI assistants wildly hallucinated about (too little documentation, too little code …
What is the easiest, cheapest and fastest way to make a static web application available to a group of end users? Probably a public GitHub repository and GitHub Pages. …
At the Oracle ACE Virtual Conference in December 2024, Lucas Jellema, CTO at Conclusion, shared insights on how to maximize the benefits of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Object Storage. …
Navigating in the Oracle Cloud console to inspect and manipulate your OCI resources can be cumbersome. Where again are these resources? Which compartment, under which service? Resources that logically …
‘Kafka is dead’ is a statement that is circulating more and more often. Critics point to a lack of innovation, the complexity of the product and the emergence of …
Scheduling Functions in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has arrived. In May 2024, the Resource Scheduler was announced. I tweeted (X-ed) at that time that I was a little disappointed that …
ZPR (Zero-trust Packet Routing) is a new and free mechanism in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to reduce the chances of unintended and potentially harmful network access. Normal network security hinges …
As part of our 20 year AMIS blog anniversary celebration, I would like to present the OCI File Manager – a free tool that allows users to easily, on …
This article introduces a static Vue 3 web application that is used to navigate the files in an OCI Object Storage Bucket. To upload files to that bucket and …
We know pipes in Oracle Database to be an in memory mechanism, ephemeral with loss of data when the database instance is stopped. With limitations on size of messages …
As part of the operations around Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, you may want to run periodic jobs. To make backups, clean up log files and other temporary assets, process a …
Web browsers typically implement a “same-origin policy” to prevent code from making requests against a different origin to the one from which the code was served. The intention of …
A very nice, powerful and potentially somewhat dangerous new feature in Oracle Database 23ai: Pre-Authenticated Request URLs for Read Only Data Access on Autonomous Database. In summary: with a …
Yesterday I noticed an announcement of the latest Oracle Database release: 23ai. A long term support release – so one we will be able to use for many years. …
I have create a simple web application for recording short notes that I want to save for later processing. Each note consists of a timestamp and location, a label …
As of Oracle database release update 19.18 a new authentication method was made available utilizing Azure AD (Entry ID as its named by Microsoft recently) Oauth tokens. Using this …
Yesterday Oracle released their latest Autonomous database offering in a container image to try (most of) the Automous database technology without requiring access to the Oracle Cloud (OCI). This …
I have written about Steampipe before. And I have stated how much I like this idea of using SQL to access data on cloud resources (and many other types …
In addition to the OCI Console, there are many ways to inspect the status of Oracle Cloud resources – including the OCI CLI, Terraform, Grafana OCI Plugin, REST API, …
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure DevOps is a service I have written about on several occasions. The OCI DevOps service provides an Artifact Repository, Git Code repositories, Build Pipelines and Deployment …
Go – sometimes Golang because internet searching for just “go” is quite impossible – is a popular programming language. It was initially launched in 2012 and as been gaining …
OCI Functions are powerful components in a cloud native world. Triggered by events and direct requests, these functions are engaged to perform a specific task. Which could be almost …
Terraform is used for automated provisioning of resource on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Resources are defined in HCL – the DSL used in Terraform for describing infrastructure – and these …
Terraform is the tool of choice for automated provisioning of cloud resources on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (IaC). In two recent articles, I have demonstrated how to create a plan …
The creation of cloud resources on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is ideally done as Infra as Code using Terraform (plans). No hands need to touch the console, no permissions need …
The creation of cloud resources on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is ideally done as Infra as Code using Terraform (plans). No hands need to touch the console, no permissions need …
Messages published to an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Queue may not immediately be intended for consumption. It is a not uncommon requirement to make messages available for consumption only …
I should have been aware of it – but I was not. The generic OCI CLI Raw Request option – the uniform approach to any OCI resource query or …
In an earlier article, I have explored the promise of OCI Queue – a managed queue service launched in December 2022. In this article I will show my first …
The new OCI Queue Service provides a straightforward offering: publish messages into a persisted store and allow consumers to retrieve these messages from that store – the oldest message …
Container Instances on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure are VM based environments that can be leveraged as “serverless” container runtimes. Once a container instance has been defined – which is a …
Over the last few days, in this pre-Holiday season period, Oracle has released a number of interesting new services and updates to existing services. I plan on exploring them …
Gidpod provides ephemeral development environments. Run a Gitpod workspace and get a clean environment with precisely those components that have been configured for the use case or context you …
Running “docker compose” in a VM on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is perhaps not the ideal way to go – which probably would be OKE (Kubernetes) in order to benefit …
I have worked quite a bit in Oracle Cloud, starting back in 2015. I have used many different OCI services – such as Integration, Streaming, Functions, OKE, API Gateway, …
In a recent article, I described the use of the OCI SDK for Go(Lang) – in my example to interact with the ObjectStorage service. In the article, I used …
I am still fairly new at working with Go. I have the ambition of working with and perhaps even on several open source projects that all use Go as …
Terraform is all about infrastructure (and platform) as code. Creating OCI resources through Terraform is probably the best way to manage your cloud resources. I have written several articles …
Automation through infrastructure as code is the name of the game. And I am a player in that game. In the last few weeks I have spent a lot …
