OCI Bastion Service Part I: How to use it to connect to your Private Subnet (Console)

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Intro In the cloud, bastion or jump server is the only node exposed to the outside world and acts as a gateway between the private network where your backend resources (application, databases..etc) are hosted and the Internet. A Bastion runs bare minimum applications and is extremely secure. Even if any network can access it, it …

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Terraform in OCI: The infamous error 404-NotAuthorizedOrNotFound

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Intro Terraform uses API to interact with your Cloud provider’s platform. Hence many error messages thrown by your terraform deploy come directly from the cloud platform (i.e OCI services) . In some cases, they prove to be very unhelpful and empty of insights, leaving you wonder what really is breaking your deployment. These are part …

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☁☁ My Terraform labs 2021– Cloud recap ☁☁

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Intro The first time I had seen a glimpse of this Infrastructure as Code artifact in 2018 (presented by Roopesh Ramklass at our TOUG meetup), I found the it ugly as hell and sworn to never touch it (probably confused it with Json ;)). Today I am happy to admit that I was totally wrong …

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Compare OCI, AWS, Azure, GCP application services

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Intro Common trend for cloud providers is to compare their services/offers with AWS (even AWS itself does it when releasing new features). But it seems that the top 3 reached a sort of agreement where they only acknowledge their respective direct competition & dismiss any player outside this oligopoly. Oracle Cloud or AliCloud being more …

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RMAN, INCARNATIONS, and ME part II: Recovery ignoring backups / ORA-19563: datafile copy header validation failed for file

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Intro In an ideal world, I believe, every backup script should be matched by 2 recovery scenarios. As this swiss OUC figure reminds us, having a backup that works means nothing without a tested restore and recovery. Today I’ll try to depict the don’t do’s after an recovery of a controlfile with open resetlogs using …

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