Intro After AWS,Oracle Cloud, and Azure, GCP is the 4th cloud platform in our terraform tutorial series, we will describe what it takes to authenticate and provision a compute engine using their terraform provider. The instance will also have an nginx website linked to its public IP. If you want to know about the differences …
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Intro In this tutorial we will try provisioning a vm on azure using their terraform provider and reproduce the same deployment I have completed on AWS and Oracle Cloud. As usual we won’t just deploy an instance but also configure an nginx website linked to its public IP. I’ll end this post with some notes …
Read more “Terraform for dummies part 3: Launch a vm with a static website on Azure”
Intro I was playing with my Linux vagrant boxes lately and I realized I was always spinning third party boxes that had a totally different time zone (Europe/UK mostly). Up until now I never bothered as I have used bunch of those from vagrant Cloud for years. I sometimes notice, and think of using a …
Read more “Vagrant tips: How to automatically adjust the Time Zone of your vagrant box”
Intro Google as most of the cloud providers today, offers a simple Cloud shell solution with all required tools to connect to their platform securely using APIs. However, If you still want to have it in your laptop along with other development tools, you can always install Google Cloud SDK (especially if it’s for educational …
Read more “Google SDK (CLI for GCP) installation and few CLI examples”
Intro GCP Cloud Shell not only allows to execute and automate tasks around your Cloud resources, but It can help you understand what happens behind the scene when a vm is provisioned for example. That’s also a good way to prepare for the GCP Cloud engineer certification. Although it normally takes a subscription to …
Read more “GCP Short lab: launch an instance, Startup script & test logging via CloudShell”
Intro I have been asked lately to share some prep tips after I passed the GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Certification. Although there are tons of articles online describing the exam content and many resource materials to help prepare for the exam, I decided to share my thoughts around the preparation journey along with my feedback …
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Intro During my preparation for the GCP Associate Cloud Engineer exam, I first got myself a free tier account which usually lasts 3 months. This allowed me to play with the Cloud Console as it’s the fastest way to get to know a cloud provider’s services & offering. Being already familiar with AWS, Azure, and …
Read more “What makes GCP networking service different from other Cloud providers”
Intro This is the last part of the OVM series where I will describe the backup package provided by oracle called ovm-bkp . Even if the Premier Support period has already ended (March, 2021) and OLVM is supposed to be the replacement, a lot of workloads are still running on OVM including new PCAs (Private …
Read more “OVM Series part 3: Backup and recovery with ovm-Bkp (plus scripts)”
Intro In my last post, I have described few commands within Oracle OVM manager CLI. This time, the topic is about how to identify the relevant information of your OVM environment as well as the logs and their location for each component. OVM servers and OVM manager have their own logs, and when issues occur …
Read more “OVM series part 2: What to collect when opening an SR”
Intro I have been introduced to Oracle OVM rather accidentally. I was more familiar with the traditional vmware or hyper-V but when I was asked to help a client to implement their ovm backups, I got more curious about it. This post is the first of a series of 3. I will try to show …