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OCI Azure Interconnect Terraform
17Sep, 2025

Building an OCI–Azure Interconnect with Terraform (Part 1): Azure Virtual Network Gateway and ExpressRoute Circuit

OCI Azure Interconnect Terraform is the foundation for securely linking Microsoft Azure with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. In this article, we start building an OCI Azure Interconnect with Terraform. The focus of Part 1 is on the Azure side, where we deploy the Virtual Network Gateway and ExpressRoute Circuit. These resources …

oci azure multicloud
14May, 2025

Bridging the Multicloud Skills Gap: From Azure to OCI (and Back)

The other day, a colleague asked me why I bothered spending so much time building a course about OCI Azure Multicloud. “Isn’t it just more complexity for complexity’s sake?” I smiled. Because I see it differently. OCI Azure Multicloud isn’t a buzzword anymore In today’s cloud-native world, the idea of …

OCI DevOps CI/CD architecture with Terraform on Oracle Cloud
10Feb, 2025

OCI DevOps with Terraform: From Project to Build & Deploy Pipelines

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 …

oci mysql terraform replication architecture diagram
28Jan, 2025

Cross-Region Replication for OCI MySQL HeatWave with Terraform

In this guide, you’ll learn how to set up OCI MySQL Terraform to achieve cross-region replication, high availability, and disaster recovery. Modern cloud applications need scalable, resilient, and globally available databases. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) MySQL HeatWave Database Service (MDS) provides not only performance and analytics, but also the ability …

OCI DevOps Canary deployment architecture diagram
15Jan, 2025

Embracing Deployment Agility: Canary and Blue-Green Deployments with OCI DevOps and Terraform

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 …

29May, 2024

🚀 How to Create Your First OCI Resource Manager Stack (Step-by-Step)

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Resource Manager is a built-in Terraform-as-a-Service solution. Instead of maintaining your own Terraform server, you can simply upload configuration files and run jobs directly in the OCI Console. In this guide, I’ll walk you through a real example: creating a simple stack from a .zip archive …

OCI Autonomous Database Terraform
24Apr, 2024

Cross-Region Autonomous Data Guard for OCI Autonomous Database (Serverless) with Terraform

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 scheduled autoscaling terraform policies in oci console
29Sep, 2020

Schedule-based OCI Compute Autoscaling with Terraform

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to set up OCI scheduled autoscaling Terraform using Quartz cron expressions to scale compute capacity at predictable times. In my previous article on OCI Compute Autoscaling, I showed how to set up autoscaling based on threshold metrics such as CPU utilization.In this follow-up, we’ll …

VS Code terraform.tfvars example for OCI Terraform TF_VAR variables
10Apr, 2020

Collecting TF_VAR Variables for Terraform OCI Provider – Step-by-Step (2025)

Introduction Before you can deploy anything in Oracle Cloud using Terraform, you need to configure a set of environment variables — commonly referred to as OCI Terraform TF_VAR variables — that provide authentication and tenancy information for the Terraform OCI Provider. It’s a small but critical step — and many …