Category: Oracle Cloud

This is a quick how-to article on setting up RMAN to backup to Object Storage on OCI. This is applicable when you build your on Oracle database on an …

Unlike most of our posts this post will contain almost no code or examples. But it hopefully will help  somebody who ends up to be in the same situation …

All major public clouds are organized in similar ways. However, terms used for certain similar constructs can be (quite) different, or the same terms are used for quite different …

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Shell is VM that runs inside OCI -to be used for manipulating OCI resources using various means, including OCI CLI, Terraform and Ansible. We may …

Cloud Shell on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is a versatile management and development environment to access and manage Oracle Cloud Infrastructure resources. Cloud Shell comes with many tools and runtime …

Objective of this article: connect SQL*Plus in Cloud Shell to an Autonomous Database instance (in a free tier – in the same or a different cloud tenancy) The starting …

This article tells you how to access the Kubernetes Dashboard on top of an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure OKE Cluster Instance from a browser – without locally installing kubectl. This …

Cloud Shell in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is a free browser based command line tool for various types of interactions within your OCI Tenancy. When you start Cloud Shell, a …

This morning I discovered a new entry in the menu on my Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Tenancy (on Ashburn, USA): the NoSQL Database service had been added overnight. The service …

Resources in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure can be managed through the console – the browser based UI. That works great but requires manual steps – no automation – that take …

Oracle provides several services as ‘always free’. In contrast to Azure and Amazon, these include compute instances which remain ‘forever’ free to use. Although there are some limitations on …

In earlier articles, I have discussed features in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for monitoring metrics published by virtually all OCI services. These metrics get published when functions are invoked, files …

In this article, I want to show how you can very quickly run a Docker container for free on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – using a VM in the Always …

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure gathers metrics from all OCI resources. These metrics can be visualized and analyzed with the Metrics Explorer. And Alarms can be defined with rules evaluating the …

We call them serverless and we consider them stateless. Functions on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (and on other cloud platforms). Of course they are neither. They run on servers. And …

In a recent article, I described how serverless Functions on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure can invoke each other: synchronously and asynchronously. Although asynchronous calls are the desired state, such calls …

OCI allows for cloud native application development, using facilities such as serverless functions, a light weight API gateway, a streaming service for asynchronous communication based on event messaging and …

Execution of scheduled jobs based on a time schedule is a frequent requirement. Jobs on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure are often implemented using cloud native, serverless Functions – that can …

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers the Streaming service. This service is easily described as a Kafka-like fully managed event platform for high volume streams of data that can be processed …

Fire and forget messaging is a powerful concept. Asynchronous, decoupled communication is key to scalability and independence of services. Oracle Cloud provides a pub/sub solution called Oracle Messaging Cloud …

The objective for this article is to show you how to get to the point where two routes are available on an API Gateway on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure that …

This article demonstrates a set up that is probably mainly of theoretical interest or maybe useful in demonstrations. I describe how we can invoke an OCI serverless Function through …

The objective in this article: create a simple Authorizer Function that checks the Client Secret passed in API calls and allows and denies requests based on whether the correct …

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure API Gateway makes it possible to expose OCI Functions on public endpoints that do not require complex signed HTTP requests. Any function that should be easily …

Functions on Oracle Cloud are an important element in any cloud native application architectures. Functions are typically small, well contained and fairly independent pieces of logic to carry out …

This article is fairly rough log of the steps I went through to get going on Oracle Cloud Serverless Functions. It is mainly intended to provide a note to …

The API Gateway service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure went live very recently – read my overview article of what API Gateway entails. In brief: API Gateway is a reverse …

Two days ago, the API Gateway service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure went live – read the announcement. This is a crucial component for many applications and in many solution …

Last week at AMIS we had the task of estimating costs of a proposed iPaaS solution for one of our customers that runs on a fully managed cloud. As …

At the Oracle Partner PaaS Summer Camp IX 2019 in Lisbon, held at the end of August, I followed a 5 day during workshop called “Modern Application Development with …

At the Oracle Partner PaaS Summer Camp IX 2019 in Lisbon, held at the end of August, I followed a 5 day during workshop called “Modern Application Development with …

In a number of recent articles, I have described how to provision an instance of Oracle Data Warehouse Cloud in Oracle Cloud’s Always Free tier. I have also described …

Oracle Cloud now offers the Always Free Tier that comes with an always free Autonomous Data Warehouse (up to 20 GB data storage) as well as an free Autonomous …

In a recent article I described how to provision an instance of Oracle Cloud Autonomous Data Warehouse in the recently launched Always Free Tier of OCI. This article shows …

Last month, Oracle announced it’s Cloud Free Tier on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This free tier offers several services (compute, storage, network, monitoring & notifications, serverless functions and Autonomous …

At the Oracle Partner PaaS Summer Camp IX 2019 in Lisbon, held at the end of August, I followed a 5 day during workshop called “Modern Application Development with …

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage is a public cloud service for storing data to which you need fast, immediate, and frequent access. As Oracle states: “The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure …

A valuable capability that organizations using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure have available is internet intelligence. This capability allows you to monitor the health and accessibility of your web site’s  or …