Tag: oci
TL;DR – Multi Client Sessions can be facilitated in a fully serverless fashion. Two players playing Tic Tac Toe or Chess, teams collaborating on a document or diagram, an …
Assume a browser based (or desktop electron) stand alone, client side only application. Multiple users are working with that application at the same time, on their own laptops and …
TL;DR – How to create a Function on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure that uses the Playwright library for running headless browser scenarios, for example for Web UI Health Check and …
Oracle Database 21c has been released – for now only in the cloud. Starting to explore – that is what we call playing with it – it easy and …
One of the best parts of my job is the opportunity to learn all the time. A day to loved is a day not lived, a day not laughed …
Today I read the announcement of OpenAPI (fka Swagger) support in API Gateway on OCI. I was wondering what that entailed and I decided to try it out. In …
The Oracle Developer Cloud Service was probably the very first service on Oracle Cloud, as early as 2015 if I remember correctly. This service has been repositioned and relabeled …
Oracle Functions are the Functions as a Service (or FaaS) offering on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Functions are the serverless, stateless execution engines that play such an important role in …
The Vault service lets you create vaults in your tenancy as containers for encryption keys and secrets. Vaults are logical entities where the Vault service creates and durably stores …
TL;DR: Oracle offers a new cloud native, serverless service on OCI for data processing and ETL/ELT, called Data Integration. It seems a new incarnation of Oracle Data Integrator or …
Resource Principal is an OCI resource that through its membership of a Dynamic Group and permissions granted through policies to the Dynamic Group is given access to OCI resources …
TLDR: query parameters can be retrieved from the Fn-Http-Request-Url header in the ctx parameter passed by Fn to the Node function handling the request; using url.parse() on that header …
Attend this series of six live webinars to get going with cloud native application development on the Oracle Cloud platform, created and presented by REAL specialists. The Red Expert …
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 …
Data is really important to any organization. Data tells us what the organization is doing, and where it is going. And how it can improve quality and efficiency of …
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 …
Functions on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure are implemented using Project Fn. A function runs in Docker container. This container has a runtime (for example for Java, Go, Python, Node) and …
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 …
