Business continuity is one of the key aspects of any production database landscape. While a single region setup in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) already provides high availability, true disaster recovery (DR) requires replicating your database to another region. Oracle Data Guard makes this possible by maintaining a standby database system …
Are you looking for a simple way to master OCI Kubernetes Terraform automation? If so, you’re in the right place. Good news — you don’t need to piece everything together manually anymore. I’ve built a ready-to-use Terraform module that handles all the complexity for you, and it’s now featured in …
Working with OCI DevOps Terraform allows you to bring automation, repeatability, and consistency to your entire CI/CD workflow. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure DevOps is a fully managed service that helps teams build, test, and deploy applications faster, and when combined with Terraform it becomes even more powerful. Instead of manually creating …
This guide explores OCI DevOps canary deployments with Terraform, showing how to gradually roll out changes in OKE clusters with safer, controlled releases. Modern cloud deployments can’t afford downtime. Whether you’re rolling out a new feature or upgrading your application backend, you need a strategy that minimizes risk while keeping …
In this guide, we’ll walk through how to set up OCI Autonomous Database Terraform, enabling cross-region disaster recovery with Autonomous Data Guard (ADG). When your OLTP workloads can’t afford regional outages, Autonomous Data Guard (ADG) is the safest path: a remote standby in another OCI region that’s continuously kept in …
OCI Load Balancer Terraform setup is a must-have skill for anyone automating cloud infrastructure in Oracle Cloud. This guide shows how to deploy a flexible load balancer using Terraform and take full advantage of Oracle Cloud’s scalability. When working with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), networking plays a crucial role in …
In this post, we’ll walk through a real oci nat gateway terraform scenario, revisiting one of the key building blocks of secure and scalable cloud networking — the OCI NAT Gateway, using a real example taken from Lesson 4 of my Flagship OCI Infrastructure Automation Course. In the early days …
When you’re just starting with OCI networking and Terraform, understanding how to correctly configure an Internet Gateway is absolutely essential.In this post, we’ll walk through a real oci internet gateway terraform example — building a basic Virtual Cloud Network (VCN) with a single public subnet, Internet Gateway, route tables, security …
Welcome to the FoggyKitchen Manifesto — a declaration of how we approach DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, and cloud automation. This blog is not about cooking in the ordinary sense — but about cooking the cloud infrastructure.For many years, IT infrastructure was built manually: clicking through GUIs, creating resources by hand, …









