Automation

Terraform tips’n’tricks: getting the latest Oracle Linux 8 image OCID programatically

This post is a direct follow up to the previous one where I shared how I…
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…
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…
Introducing Packer: building immutable infrastructure in the cloud

After having spent a bit of time with Packer to create Vagrant base boxes it was…
Introducing Packer: building Vagrant base boxes hands-free

I have referred to Packer in some of my cloud-related presentations as an example of a…