Automation

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…
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…
Automating Vagrant Box versioning

The longer I work in IT the more I dislike repetitive processes. For example, when updating…
Ansible tips’n’tricks: configuring the Ansible Dynamic Inventory for OCI – Oracle Linux 7

I have previously written about the configuration of the Ansible Dynamic Inventory for OCI. The aforementioned…
Device name persistence in the cloud: OCI + Terraform

This is a really short post (by my standards at least) demonstrating how I ensure device…
Oracle Database Cloud Service: Create a database from backup using Terraform

A common DBA task is to ensure that a development-type environment is refreshed. In a typical…
Creating custom database binaries in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) enables users to run the database in many different ways. Starting with…
Installing Ansible on Oracle Linux 8 for test and development use

I have previously written about installing Ansible on Oracle Linux 7 for non-production use. A similar…
Ansible tips’n’tricks: run select parts of a playbook using tags

I have recently re-discovered an Ansible feature I haven’t used in a while: tagging. Ansible allows…