DevOps

Git clone, but a specific branch, please

This is a super quick post mainly to remind myself that it is possible to (git)…
Using Oracle Database Free in your devcontainer and GitHub Codespaces

Dev containers are pretty nifty when it comes to keeping your development environment isolated from the…
Successfully Using SQLcl Projects If Your Production Branch Isn’t Called “main”

This short note demonstrates that the the production branch name is configurable in SQLcl projects. If…
Using Ansible to resize the root LV on Oracle Linux 9 in OCI

While preparing an upcoming talk at a community event I worked on some Terraform code I…
New DEBUG flag simplifies troubleshooting ORDS container image issues

I previously wrote about troubleshooting the ORDS (Oracle REST Data Services) container’s entrypoint, e.g. the script…
Troubleshooting errors in ORDS container image entrypoint

I’m a huge fan of Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS) and use it extensively. I’m also…
Sourcing environment variables from .env in compose

I am a great fan of {podman,docker}-compose. Using compose I can whip up environments in no…
Thementage 2025: CI/CD demo part 2

The first part of this mini-series dealt with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery in the context of database…
Thementage 2025: CI/CD demo part 1

I am, and have been, an admirer of Andrea Held’s conferences, both IT Tage in Frankfurt…
Containers are awesome, not only for stateless things

This post describes why using containers, even for database driven applications, is very useful.