August 2021

Building a Debian 11 Vagrant Box using Packer and Ansible

Sometimes it might be necessary to create one’s own Vagrant base box for reasons too numerous…
Install the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure CLI on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

This is a short post on how to install/configure the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Command Line…
Deploying I/O intensive workloads in the cloud: LVM RAID

I recently blogged about a potential pitfall when deploying the Oracle database on LVM (Logical Volume…
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: using the CLI to manipulate Network Security Groups

I frequently need to update security rules in one of my Network Security Groups (NSG). Rather…
Linux BPFtrace: slightly more advanced use cases involving kprobes

If you look at some of the examples of how to use bpftrace – more specifically…
Deploying I/O intensive workloads in the cloud: don’t fall for the LVM trap

I have been assessing the “best” storage option for Oracle databases deployed on Infrastructure as a…