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OCI Block Volume Terraform architecture diagram with iSCSI connection
06Jun, 2025

Provisioning OCI Block Volumes with Terraform/OpenTofu — and Why It’s Not Quite Like Azure

In this post, we’ll explore how to create and attach an OCI Block Volume Terraform/OpenTofu — one of the most fundamental building blocks in any Oracle Cloud Infrastructure deployment. Block storage is the quiet workhorse of every cloud environment. It powers databases, application backends, and the stateful workloads that can’t …

OCI IAM Policies Terraform diagram — Dynamic Group and Policy example.
06Nov, 2024

OCI IAM Policies & Dynamic Groups — Let Your Functions Talk to Streaming and ADB

When you build a serverless data pipeline in OCI, you often need to define OCI IAM Policies Terraform so that your Functions, API Gateway, Streaming, and Autonomous Database can talk to each other — securely and without user credentials. Instead of using user credentials or API keys, Oracle Cloud allows …

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 …