Tag: IaC

How to build microservice which is based on OCI Function and ATP with Terraform

Posted on by Martin Linxfeld

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 endpoints for ATP. I have used the code related to this blog post and I have refactored it a bit. The idea behind was to eliminate VM-based web server with Flask microservice. This old school technology could be replaced by OCI Function and API Gateway (btw. check Kranthi blog post). I guess this refactoring has been pretty successful. Below in this 15 minutes video, you will see my hard work on this topic. Hope it will be tasty 🙂

Bon Appetit,

Martin, The Cook.

My thoughts after successful Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Developer 2020 Certified Associate exam

Posted on by Martin Linxfeld

mattia_rossi_oci_certified_solution_architect_associate_2018Last week I was very busy so it was hard to find a few free cycles to write about it. Yes, I have passed recently Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Developer 2020 Certified Associate exam. Frankly speaking, it was obvious for me I need to do it. I am a hardcore developer here at FoggyKitchen, mostly with Terraform, but I am also writing a lot of stuff in Ansible for Oracle, for example, Ansible-Database-Migration-Tool (ADMT). You are probably curious if this certification is important and if it is worth spending time on it. Well… I guess it is. The modern world is changing like crazy. Especially now during the COVID-19 outbreak, which transforms business in an extremely fast way. I have heard that recently some big CEO has told that staying away from the cloud today would be like planing to extinct soon. Maybe this is too radical for me, but it gives a sense of mindset shift and technological revolution we are approaching today. I am not sure how it looks like at your place, but in my location, in Poland, after full lockdown, all educational activities have been moved from analog to digital. The teachers must deliver e-schooling via Zoom or on the other platforms. On the other hand, the shops are adapting very quickly to provide a nice and easy e-commerce experience with the delivery of all goodies at your footsteps in your house. For example, I was shocked it wasn’t possible to buy new shoes in the mall for my kids (full lockdown means malls are closed). The spring has approached and their feet were just bigger. There were no excuses. I have done it via e-shop…

And here is a big question. Who will build this brand new world of e-shops, e-schools, e-something, etc? There will be a massive need for cloud developers. The army of flexible programmers capable to utilize all of the features of the modern clouds. That is is why it is worth spending time on this topic – learn about OCI Event Services and OCI Functions,  explore OCI API Gateway, Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE),  OCI Autonomous Databases and  OCI Web Application Firewall (WAF). And of course, it is a good idea to get skills and hands-on experience with Terraform (here is my tutorial).

What do you think about it? I am very excited about your feedback in this field…

One more thing… Please remember to subscribe FoggyKitchen YT channel. 🙂

Martin, The Cook.

How to integrate OCI Event Service and OCI Functions with Terraform

Posted on by Martin Linxfeld

Yesterday night I have passed  Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Developer 2020 Certified Associate exam. For this exam, besides Terraform, I had to learn about Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) and OCI Functions. Recently I have had the opportunity to explore OCI Event Service. The outcome of this experiment I have encoded in a brand new dish (GitHub repo here). The idea is simple. Successful execution of the manual backup of compute instance’s block volume or boot volume leads to automatically populated tagging information, replicated to backup resource from the corresponding volume resource. Worth to add that for automated volumes backup, recently this feature has been implemented natively in OCI, but for manual backups, we are still waiting for this feature. My best guess here is we can treat this experiment for now as a foundation for further experiments in your kitchen. So please, treat is as a toy, just for fun 🙂

Bon Appetit,

Martin, The Cook.

Changing the shape of a virtual machine DB System in OCI with Terraform

Posted on by Martin Linxfeld

True public cloud means the elasticity of the cloud resources. The newest feature related to OCI DBSystem enhanced a few days back means exactly this, true database resource elasticity. I can imagine that in many cases your current DBSystem shape is too small or too large for the workload which is executed. In that case, it would be great to have some simple way to change CPU power by alternative VM shapes. That is why recently I was extremely excited about the dynamic option for DBSystem in case of virtual machine shape change.  You know that for sure, I am a huge fan of automation, Infrastructure as Code approach and Terraform runtime. So I have checked immediately if we can find the corresponding change in the Terraform OCI Provider code. Guess what? Version 3.65.0 supports this new OCI feature. Below a short video shows how it was easy to use this new feature in brand new Terraform OCI Provider.

Bon Appetit,

Martin, The Cook.

Private Endpoints for OCI Autonomous Database

Posted on by Martin Linxfeld

It is not the first blog post about ATP, but I think this one is even more interesting. For your information, a few days back at OCI Release Notes webpage I have found information about new features for OCI Autonomous DB offering. I am talking about Private Endpoints for ATP or ADW databases. This feature has been awaited for a very long time. Previously your ATP or ADW databases were available only via public IPs. Now you can nest them inside a particular VCN and subnet. It means your database will be available under private IP enclosed in your subnet’s CIDR. Of course, you need to prepare some Network Security Groups (NSG) on ATP/ADW level and VM level. Since that moment VM can connect to ATP/ADW with SQLNet connection via private IP. For testing purposes I have created small GitHub repo and below you can find a video about how to use that repo. I believe you will find this dish very delicious. 🙂

Bon Appetit,

Martin, The Cook.

 

 

 

How to use Terraform and OCI – lesson 10

Posted on by Martin Linxfeld

I have returned from short vacations with the strong belief I should publish new stuff. And here it is – new lesson 10 about Transit Routing VCN. About Transit VCN I have written my first post more than year ago. By the way – details about Transit Routing VCN can be found in OCI docs here. Now it is good to create some adjustment to my previous blog post and somehow combine this knowledge with the Terraform +OCI course which has been published as a playlist on our YT channel. Lesson 10 will enhance the previous two lessons (about remote and local peering). We will add route tables (1) on the DRG attachment level and (2) on Hub VCN level for both HUBLPGs and (3) at requestor site for traffic going back to acceptor site. It seems to be very complex, but I guess you will catch the concept quickly. I hope this sophisticated dish will be tasty as the previous one.

Bon Appetit,

Martin, The Cook.

How to use Terraform and OCI – lesson 9

Posted on by Martin Linxfeld

I hope you have noticed that huge news at OCI Release Notes. In February 2020 OCI global footprint has grown significantly with three new regions (Amsterdam in the Netherlands, Jeddah in Saudi Arabia and Melbourne in Australia). I am located in Europe so immediately I have requested the subscription of Amsterdam DC. So now in my tenancy, I have Frankfurt and Amsterdam regions ready to be utilized. Given this fact, it was obvious for me, I can try to set up some extension to my previous lesson, lesson 8. I could convert local VCN peering in the same region into a remote VCN peering configuration. In this new setup, my BackendServer, with all necessary cloud infrastructure, would be deployed in Amsterdam. And I have done it. So now we have brand new lesson 9 for which code is available here. There is also video, ready for you, ready to be watched! 🙂 As always I am asking kindly for subscribing to our YouTube channel. Believe me, I am planning to record more and more stuff and publish it here in a form of blog post and video blog on YT 🙂

Bon Appetit,

Martin, The Cook.