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OCI Bastion Service Part I: How to Use it to Connect to Your Private Subnet (Console)

Introduction In the Cloud, Bastion or Jump Server is the only node exposed to the outside world and acts as a gateway between the Private Network where your backend resources..

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The Impact of Optimization in a Cloud Architecture

In recent years, few aspects of modern life have enterprises and techies drooling more than the cloud. The amount of cloud data centers dominated by tech giants, Amazon,..

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Terraform in OCI: The Infamous Error 404 – NotAuthorizedOrNotFound

Introduction Terraform uses API (Application Programming Interface) to interact with your Cloud Provider’s platform. Hence many error messages thrown by your Terraform deployment..

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How to list all your resources in OCI via OCI CLI

This will be a small post and is mostly for me to remember how to do it. The other day I was asked to provide all of the resources that we had in OCI (Oracle Cloud..

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OCI Bastion Service Part II: Create Bastion Service Using OCI CLI and Terraform

Introduction In part II, and after demonstrating how to use OCI Bastion Service using the Console (see part I), we will cover how to create Bastion Service using automation tools..

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Script your RMAN Backups using Oracle External Password Store with the SYSBACKUP Privilege

As you may already know, scripting your RMAN (Oracle Recovery Manager) backups and storing your connectivity credentials in the actual scripts is not a good security practice...

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ExaCC: PDB in restricted mode and bind parameter error when applying RU SQL patch

A couple of weeks ago, I was helping out a teammate with a post-patch issue on the ExaCC. The problem was that after applying the 19.12 RU to the DB ORACLE_HOME, the PDBs were..

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Cloud Recap – My Terraform Labs in 2021

Intro The first time I had seen a glimpse of this Infrastructure as a CodeArtifact in 2018 (presented by Roopesh Ramklass at our TOUG meetup), I found it ugly as hell and swore to..

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The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform Application Services Comparison

Introduction The common trend for cloud providers is to compare their services/offers with AWS (Amazon Web Services – even AWS itself does it when releasing new features). But it..

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