Cloud

Create an OCI bastion service via Terraform

Maintaining bastion hosts (a “jump box” or other network entry point directly exposed to the Internet)…
Deploying I/O intensive workloads in the cloud: Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM)

Over the past month I wrote a few posts about deploying I/O intensive workloads in the…
Deploying I/O intensive workloads in the cloud: mdadm (aka Software) RAID

The final part of my “avoiding pitfalls with Linux Logical Volume Manager” (LVM) series considers software…
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…
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…
Installing perf on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

This is a very short post with instructions on how to install perf on Ubunutu 20.04…
Using systemd to start an Oracle single instance database when booting

I don’t work with systemd frequently enough to remember its syntax and other intricacies so I…
Installing instant clients on Oracle Linux 8 in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

I recently presented my views on upgrading to Oracle 19c to the DOAG community. As part…