OCI FortiGate HA Cluster – Reference Architecture: Code review & Fixes

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Intro OCI Quick Start repositories on GitHub are collections of Terraform scripts and configurations provided by Oracle. These repositories are designed to help organizations quickly deploy common infrastructure setups on the OCI Platform. Each Quick Start focuses on a specific use case or workload, simplifying the process of provisioning on OCI using Terraform—a sort of …

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Cloud Showdown: Bare Metal vs. VMs in OCI – Pros & Cons

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Intro The migration journey to the cloud for a business comes in different shapes and colors. Today, we’ll explore a quick comparison between Bare metal and VM platforms, which are two IaaS compute options available in Oracle Cloud infrastructure. Although specific to OCI, you might find similar benefits and trade-offs in other Cloud platforms. In …

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Terraform for dummies part 7: Deploy a static website on Alibaba Cloud

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Intro 3 years ago, I started the terraform for dummies series where I wanted to deploy a static website in any cloud provider there was (the dummy in question was me duh:)). But the mistake most of us make is to think AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle Cloud are the only Hyperscalers out there. Wrong! Alibaba …

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Terraform pipelines for dummies part1: Run a terraform configuration in GitLabCI

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Intro Automating infrastructure provisioning with Terraform is nothing for many, but to truly harness IaC power, seamless integration with CI/CD pipelines is key. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the process of setting up and running your Terraform configurations within GitLab CI from an GitHub imported repo. This powerful combination not only ensures consistent …

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Farewell to ClickOps: OCI CLI seamless Data Guard Replication for ExaC@C

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Intro Since the very beginning, everyone got introduced to  Cloud services through the console as it’s very quick. But the cloud CLI tooling provides a stronger, yet user-friendly way to automate tasks, often covering features not even available in the console. Moreover, DBAs often assume that the CLI is primarily designed for managing compute-based services, …

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