Cloud

Swingbench: creating benchmark schemas with strong passwords

This post describes my experience creating the SOE user account in an Oracle 21 database provided…
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…
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…
Terraform tips’n’tricks: debugging data sources and testing interpolations

I have previously blogged about the use of Terraform data sources to fetch information concerning Oracle…
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…
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)…