Getting More for Less from OCI Object Storage
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. …
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Oracle Cloud Projects Browser Extension
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 …
Scheduling Function Execution in Oracle Cloud
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 …
Zero Trust Packet Routing in Oracle Cloud: least privilege network in human understandable policies
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 …
Anniversary Gift: Versatile Cross Device File Manager (10GB free storage)
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 …
Persistent, cross database and cross region pipe in Oracle Database 23ai
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 …
Memo-recorder app on persistent OCI backend
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 …
Post files to OCI Object Storage Bucket via API Gateway
In a previous article I discussed accessing a static web application (a Vue 3 application) stored on OCI Object Storage through API Gatyeway. In this article I used a …
Host a static Vue Web application on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure–for free
I have been working on a Vue 3 web application. It allows the user to upload photographs and it will display the locations where these photos were taken on …
Visual Dashboard on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure using Apache Superset and Steampipe
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, …
News Flash: OCI DevOps – Deployment runner for Shell Stage
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 …
Five part article series introducing Go on OCI
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 Function Parameters based on Vault Secrets–an enhancement request
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 …
Dynamic Configuration of Terraform plans and Stacks in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Some of the data used by Terraform to create cloud resources is sensitive and should not be stored in plain text in source code repositories. Examples are passwords, client …
Many ways to provision Oracle Cloud Resources using Terraform
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 …
Create Terraform Stack and Apply it to Provision Resources on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
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 …
Terraform Modules, For-Each, File Set on Oracle Cloud
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 …
Terraform from Cloud Shell for OCI resource creation through Infra as Code
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 …
Delayed Delivery in OCI Queue Service–time based message release
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 …
Generic OCI Resource manipulation with OCI CLI Raw Request
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 …
First Steps with OCI Queue Service–fully managed massively scalable FIFO queue
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 …
Quickest way to run a container on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: container instances
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 …
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure–flutter of activity: Queue, Container Instances
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 …
Gitpod for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure development
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 …
Quickly try out Kubernetes with two Pods–web app and database
Two colleagues wanted to try out Kubernetes and more specifically deployment of an application on Kubernetes that was not entirely trivial. One that consists of at least two Pods …
Oracle Cloud’s marching order: win developers’ hearts and minds
There are two public cloud. AWS and Azure. That is not actually the case – but that is how sometimes it may seem. A third cloud is frequently listed …
Run "docker-compose" on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute using Podman
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 …
Quick Start Compute Instance on OCI (for software development)
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, …
Oracle Cloud Go SDK and Instance Principal based Authentication
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 …
Interacting with OCI Object Storage using Go SDK (first steps)
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 …
Dapr on OKE–Distributed Application Runtime on OCI Kubernetes Engine
One of the most exciting frameworks I have ran into into recent years is Dapr (dapr.io) – distributed application runtime. Dapr is a cross technology runtime framework that supports …
Getting started (again) with Kubernetes on Oracle Cloud
For many of my recent activities, I have not worked with or even on (knowingly at least) Kubernetes. So for many months I have not touched my OKE cluster …
Getting started quickly with querying OCI from Terraform in Cloud Shell
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 …
Creating, Building and Invoking a Function on OCI with Terraform
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 …
OCI DevOps Build Pipeline for Functions
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 …
OCI DevOps Deployment Pipeline for Functions–automation on Oracle Cloud
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 …
How to open IDCS Console from OCI– Finding the entry to Identity Cloud Service
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 …
Simple queries against Oracle Cloud NoSQL Database
I have been struggling in my first simple steps with querying data in a NoSQL Database table on Oracle Cloud. Creating the table is easy enough – either in …
Cleaning Out a Compartment on Oracle Cloud using Terraform provider
The situation: a Compartment on OCI should be removed. Or at least all its resources should be purged. Or at least most of the resources should be removed. The …
OCI DevOps–Build Pipelines and Code Repositories for CI
This article introduces Build Pipelines and Code Repositories in OCI DevOps (released on October 26th 2021) – complementing the Artifact Registry and Deployment Pipelines that were first launched in …