— “Because sh*t happens, be ready for when it does!” — Intro Infrastructure Automation is a lifesaver for OPS teams in their day-to-day duties, but when it comes to givin’ full control to new tools and frameworks, watch out for problems that can no longer be fixed manually. It’s also a reminder that it is …
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Intro The cloud offers unlimited scalability at lower costs with the available resources. Companies enable their engineering teams to launch infrastructure as and when needed. However, since costs aren’t shown to engineers before Cloud resources are deployed, the real cost implications are unknown. That causes higher than expected costs and ballooning budgets over time, which …
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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 What’s the point of moving a database to the Cloud if we can’t 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 didn’t want all these approaches to be lumped in one post. Quick table of contents – Create …
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