Cloud

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…
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…
Introducing Packer: building immutable infrastructure in the cloud

After having spent a bit of time with Packer to create Vagrant base boxes it was…
Bootstrapping a VM image in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure using cloud-init

At the time of writing Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offers 2 ways to…
Log in to Ubuntu VMs in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

When I learned that Oracle was providing Ubuntu images in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) I was…
Terraforming the Oracle Cloud: choosing and using an image family

For a few times now I have presented about “cloud deployments done the cloud way”, sharing…