Martin Bach

Terraform tips’n’tricks: getting the latest Oracle Linux 7 image OCID programatically

As with all cloud providers you need to specify an operating system image when creating virtual…
A mostly academic post about startup triggers and when they fire in Real Application Clusters

Out of curiosity I wanted to figure out when and how often startup triggers fire in…
Device name persistence in the cloud: OCI

Device name persistence is an important concept for everyone deploying the Oracle database. In this little…
Ansible tips’n’tricks: using the OCI Dynamic Inventory Plugin in playbooks

After having covered how to configure the Ansible Dynamic Inventory Plugin for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)…
Ansible Dynamic Inventory Plugin for OCI: where are all my hosts?

I wrote about the configuration of the Ansible Dynamic Inventory Plugin for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)…
Ansible tips’n’tricks: configuring the dynamic inventory plugin for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

As yet another preparation for a talk I’m about to give later this year I ran…
Handling kernel upgrades with Ansible prior to an Oracle installation

As part of the process of setting up VMs in the cloud for use with the…
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: using Network Security Groups and the caveat with the subnet’s default security list

This is going to be one of these posts I’m mainly writing to myself, in the…
Upgrading oraclelinux-release-el7 might trigger an upgrade to UEK Release 6

While building a demo environment for an upcoming presentation I noticed an upgrade from UEK 5…
Enforcing a re-parse of a cursor in Autonomous Database. Using a hammer

UPDATE 251208: The original post is now retired, the workaround previously described is no longer necessary.…