Category: Oracle Cloud
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 …
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers the Functions service, a FaaS offering with serverless functions, based on container images built with the Project Fn FDK. In a previous article, I introduced …
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has a free DevOps cloud service that includes build and deploy pipelines in addition to source code and artifact repositories. I have written about OCI DevOps …
I have just spent way too much time on finding the way to the Oracle IDCS console from within my OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) console. I was reading a …