OCI-CLI Warning on Windows: Python 3.6 is no longer supported by core team & My fix to silence the noise

Intro Hey there, You know what’s been driving me crazy lately? That damn Python deprecation warning on Windows 10 after upgrading to OCI CLI 3.x. It’s been going on for a month or two now, and at first, I gave up. But when my OCI CLI shell scripts prompts started to get ugly, I knew …

Azure VM Selection Made Easy: A Script Identifying Best Constrained CPU VMs for High Memory/ Low CPU Workload

                                         Intro Are you struggling to find the most Cost-Effective Azure VMs for Database Workloads or any high memory low CPU workload? Look no further! In this blog post, we’ll introduce the concept of Azure constrained CPU along with cases where az cli displays misleading info, and finally a script that makes it easy to …

Explore Alibaba Cloud part 2: AliCloud CLI installation and few examples

Cloud CLI tools are the Most direct and simple way to interact with a new Cloud platform, It is the perfect tool for executing simple and repeatable tasks which you don’t need to keep track off. Alibaba Cloud CLI tool which also manages Cloud resources (or stacks) is no exception. In this blog post, we …

OCI Bastion Service Part II: Create Bastion service using OCI CLI & Terraform

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 didn’t want all these approaches to be lumped in one post.  Quick table of contents – Create …

Google SDK (CLI for GCP) installation and few CLI examples

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 …

GCP Short lab: launch an instance, Startup script & test logging via CloudShell

                                         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 …

Deploy a webserver vm using Azure CLI and bash scripts (Linux/windows)

                                         Intro Azure cli was another tool I had to try right after passing Az-900 azure certification, because what are certifications for if it’s not to give a little itching to get your hands a little dirty. Thus, az-cli became my third victim after oci-cli and aws-cli. As in my previous cli tutorials, the aim …

Launch an ec2 instance with a static website using awscli in 10 min (FreeTier)

Intro            aws cli is a strong yet easy way to automate simple repeatable tasks covering aws resources as it’s a direct, human-readable doorway to aws cloud platform.  This tutorial will not just demonstrate how to provision a website in awscloud, but will hopefully trigger your curiosity on the numerous possibilities the Command line tool can …

AWS CLI installation in 10 minutes

Almost every Cloud provider has a Command Line Interface (CLI) which is a unified tool to manage cloud resources. In previous post I described how to configure Oracle Cloud infrastructure CLI. This time my focus is its AWS equivalent as I intend to explore different ways of provisioning instances in all major Cloud shops (OCI,AWS,Azure,GCP),  …