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 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 …
Mixing Terraform manual deployments OCI is a common mistake that leads to state drift and broken automation. In this article, I’ll show you why this happens and how to avoid it. The idea for this blog post came during a recent Zoom webinar I delivered for a large team inside …
OCI Autonomous Database Refreshable Clone Terraform is a powerful way to keep your cloned databases in sync with the source. Cloning Autonomous Databases in OCI is not new. In earlier posts, I described how to create one-time clones from backups or from an existing instance. But these copies are static …
OCI Autonomous Database Full Clone Terraform is one of the most powerful features available in Oracle Autonomous Database (ADB). It allows you to create a copy of an existing database for development, testing, analytics, or troubleshooting scenarios without touching the production system. While you can always create clones manually through …
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 …
In this guide, I’ll show you how to perform an OCI Autonomous Database Backup Restore Terraform. In production systems, backups aren’t optional — they’re your safety net. Autonomous Database (ADB) on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) provides built-in automated backups, but restoring from them manually in the console is tedious and …
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to configure OCI Compute Autoscaling Terraform to dynamically scale your backend servers based on load. During peak traffic hours, you want your infrastructure to automatically scale out, while at night or during low traffic periods, it should scale back in to save costs. Oracle …









