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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…
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Creating custom database binaries in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) enables users to run the database in many different ways. Starting with…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Device name persistence in the cloud: OCI
Device name persistence is an important concept for everyone deploying the Oracle database. In this little…
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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)…
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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)…
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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…
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