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OCI Azure Interconnect Terraform
23Oct, 2025

OCI–Azure Interconnect with Terraform (Part 2): FastConnect + DRG on the OCI Side

OCI Azure Interconnect Terraform – when you’ve finished the Azure side setup (Part 1), the next challenge begins on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure side — building the FastConnect + DRG layer that makes both clouds truly talk to each other. In this post, I’ll show you the essence of the …

FoggyKitchen Manifesto 2025 – Cloud automation with your own brain, not someone else’s prompt.
19Oct, 2025

đź§­ FoggyKitchen Manifesto 2025 – Built by Humans. Enhanced by AI. Guided by Understanding.

The FoggyKitchen Manifesto 2025 – Why It Still Matters in the AI Era FoggyKitchen Manifesto 2025 is our renewed declaration of how we approach cloud automation in the AI era. In 2018, we published the original FoggyKitchen Manifesto — our declaration that Infrastructure as Code should be crafted like recipes: …

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 …

Azure Managed Disk Terraform architecture diagram showing direct attachment to backend VMs without iSCSI
15Aug, 2025

Creating Azure Managed Disks with Terraform/OpenTofu — and How It Differs from OCI

In this post, we’ll explore how to create and attach an Azure Managed Disk Terraform/OpenTofu, one of the simplest ways to automate storage provisioning in Azure. When you automate infrastructure across clouds, you quickly realize that “block storage” doesn’t mean the same thing everywhere.In this post, we’ll explore how to …

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 streaming autonomous database terraform architecture
29Aug, 2024

Streaming Data into Oracle Autonomous Database with OCI Functions

Introduction In this article, we’ll show how to integrate OCI Streaming Autonomous Database Terraform using serverless functions. In the previous article, we created a producer function that sends messages into OCI Streaming. That gave us the producer side of an event-driven pipeline. Now it’s time to complete the flow with …

oci streaming terraform architecture diagram
20Aug, 2024

OCI Streaming with Terraform and Functions: Build Your First Producer

Introduction In this article we’ll focus on OCI Streaming Terraform to show how easy it is to build your first producer function. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Streaming is a Kafka-compatible, fully managed messaging service designed for real-time data pipelines and event-driven architectures. Instead of managing your own Kafka cluster, you …

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28Oct, 2018

🍳 FoggyKitchen Manifesto: Let’s Cook the Cloud Infrastructure

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, …