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 …
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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 …
OCI Object Storage File Manager
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
Connecting Go application to Oracle Database–On Prem and Autonomous , with and without Oracle Client libraries
I have been struggling a bit with this one: how to connect from a Go application to an Oracle Database – both a locally running database as well as …
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, …
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 …
Get going with automated CI/CD on OCI in Visual Builder Studio
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 …
Run SonarQube on OCI– 10 minutes to get going using Docker Container on always free VM
In this article I want to describe how I run a SonarQube instance (that I intend to use from my automated CI/CD pipeline) on OCI, using a simple VM …
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – Vault Service to generate, manage and encrypt & decrypt using Keys
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 …
Introducing OCI Data Integration – New cloud native, serverless service for ETL/ELT and Data Pipelines
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 …
The Six-part REAL Oracle Cloud platform Webinar Series – Cloud Native Live Demo and Hands-On Oracle Developer Meetup sessions – kicking off June 10th 2020
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 …
Migrating an old (10.2.0.4) database to Oracle Cloud with minimal downtime
April 9, 2020
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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 …
Mapping Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure core concepts – Part One
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 …
(Many ways) How to upload files into Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – Cloud Shell
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 …
Install SQLcl on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Shell and make it work against an Autonomous Database
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 …
Connecting SQL*Plus in Cloud Shell to an Autonomous Database
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 …