Intro In my previous blog post, I showcased how to automate the refresh of a PDB clone using a DBMS scheduler job which gives a better control on the frequency, instead of relying on the minutely refresh. Handy if you donβt like keeping an automatic refresh every X minutes and rather have it run once …
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Intro In part II, and after demonstrating how to use OCI Bastion service using the Console (see part I ) we will cover how to create Bastion Service using automation tools like OCI CLI and terraform as I didnβt want all these approaches to be lumped in one post. Quick table of contents – Create …
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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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Intro Terraform uses API to interact with your Cloud providerβs 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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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 …
Read more “ββ My Terraform labs 2021β Cloud recap ββ”