Intro The thing we usually forget when completing a certification is to save a mental image of the topics that were exciting to learn or the concepts that we had no clue about right before starting the preparation. This is what practitioners should focus on after every major Cloud cert exam, as it provides an …
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Intro Whatβs the point of moving a database to the Cloud if we canβt automatically deploy it. After blogging about web compute provisioning on AWS,OCI, Azure, & GCP using terraform. The least I could do as a (future-ex) DBA is to terraform database provisioning in Oracle Cloud. On top of that, I also wanted to …
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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 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 …
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