My zero to hero Terraform + OCI training is getting more and more popular. As you can see on the left, more than 80 people have decided to enroll and study basic or complex OCI topologies deployed automatically with the usage of Terraform. For me, it is a huge thing, …
Recently I have discovered that now you can provision a standby Autonomous Database on shared Exadata infrastructure. This peer database can be then used for data protection and disaster recovery. The technology behind is well known. It is Data Guard, here called Autonomous Data Guard. Sounds great? There is only …
Last Monday I have passed Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2019 Cloud Operations Associate Exam (1Z0-1067). It was the third exam in a row, which I have decided to pass, a few weeks after Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Developer 2020 Certified Associate and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2019 Certified Architect Professional. Frankly speaking, my …
As you know I love Terraform. That is why I have created zero to hero training for OCI and Terraform. It means I like to use terminal and execute commands such as terraform plan and terraform apply. All of that is great, but the state file, in that case, is …
In one of the latest lessons of my tutorial I have shown how to setup DataGuard locally within the same region. I guess this is some sort of database protection, but in case of the whole region failure it will not help at all. So it is worth to consider …
The last two months, during the COVID thing, were transformational for this blog. Someone can say the window of the opportunity has been opened by free training and certifications for OCI. Many of us have decided to ride this horse and discover OCI, in-depth. Some of us have reached the highest …
A lot of people around the world believe the serverless approach is the ultimate future of cloud computing. I am also such a believer, but it will be a gradual move, sort of evolution within the next couple of years. Some time ago I have published a blog about private …
Following up on my previous post about storing the terraform state file on a remote object storage location, I would like to talk about the terraform state command The terraform state command is used for advanced state management. As your Terraform usage becomes more advanced, there are some cases where you may need to …
Recently Mattia has presented the blog post about using OCI CLI to retrieve OCI Marketplace image. It has inspired me to explore this topic, but with Terraform usage. The goal was very simple – deploy RocketChat image (from OCI Marketplace) as a single VM in the extremely simplified cloud infrastructure, very …
If you ever need to deploy an OCI Marketplace image using your automation, the information that you will have to feed to your script will be: “listingId”: “ocid1.appcataloglisting.oc1..aaaaaaaam7ewzrjbltqiarxukuk72v2lqkdtpqtwxqpszqqvrm7likfnpt5q”, “listingResourceId”: “ocid1.image.oc1..aaaaaaaaa5u7qtj3j3um4zryg3qkn6if2sqctqjfh46pdq5z56kq6zagg4va”, Let’s say we need to find this information for a specific Marketplace image, like RocketChat: We can use the OCI cli …