Month: January 2020

How to create Web Application Firewall in OCI with Terraform

Posted on by Kranthi Manchikanti

Security is the primary concern for every enterprise today, as traditional firewalls monitoring ports are not sufficient to keep up the pace with the advanced hackers. To protect from intelligent and malicious threats, we need modern and advanced tools to protect web applications. In this video, we will explore Oracle cloud infrastructure's Web Application Firewall … Continue reading How to create Web Application Firewall in OCI with Terraform →

OCI NSGs – an add-on to Terraform+OCI course

Posted on by Martin Linxfeld

Yes, OCI is changing very quickly! 🙂 Everyone, who follows OCI release notes, knows that. Oracle Cloud Gen2 is updated with new features even a couple of times every single month.  It shouldn't surprise you. That is how the modern cloud world works now. 🙂 In my Terraform+OCI short course, I was using security lists, … Continue reading OCI NSGs – an add-on to Terraform+OCI course →

NewStuff series – dynamic VM shape resize in OCI with Terraform

Posted on by Martin Linxfeld

I am trying to follow constantly updated release notes of OCI. Nearly every single day we have something new there, so sometimes it really hard to follow all of the news there. To read some theory is great, but test it is even greater... and harder, to be honest. So I was thinking it would … Continue reading NewStuff series – dynamic VM shape resize in OCI with Terraform →

How to create shared block volume in OCI with Terraform

Posted on by Martin Linxfeld

Yeah! That is the feature which I really like. Shared block volume attached to more than one compute instances. This feature has been announced in OCI in the middle of December 2019. One month later I have decided to test it with Terraform. I was hoping it would work not only in the OCI Console … Continue reading How to create shared block volume in OCI with Terraform →

Dinner for tonight – ATP again :)

Posted on by Martin Linxfeld

More then a year ago in this post, I have initiated OCI ATP provisioning topic. After a year I have rewritten the whole repo. Not only because HCL 0.12 is a formal standard now, and all Terraform code was outdated. I have done it also because I feel it is good in general to re-test … Continue reading Dinner for tonight – ATP again 🙂 →

How to use Terraform and OCI – lesson 8

Posted on by Martin Linxfeld

This short course, my first tutorial is going to finish... I believe we have achieved good taste of our dish, right! 🙂 Last time in lesson 7 we have created a database with OCI DBSystem. In this last lesson, we will add local VCN peering which is documented here. I hope you have found all … Continue reading How to use Terraform and OCI – lesson 8 →

How to use Terraform and OCI – lesson 7

Posted on by Martin Linxfeld

Oracle is well known for its database, for more than 30 years, meaning for many people on the market, the term database means Oracle and long, long nothing else. Until now in our lessons, we were far from the database. Instead, we were covering cloud networking (VCN, subnets, route tables, load balancers), security (security lists) … Continue reading How to use Terraform and OCI – lesson 7 →