As part of the OCI Designer Toolkit (OKIT) series we will look at how OKIT integrates with OCIs Resource Manager to create Resource Manager stacks, apply those...
As part of the OCI Designer Toolkit (OKIT) series we will look at how OKIT integrates with OCIs Resource Manager to create Resource Manager stacks, apply those stacks and update them. Resource Manager OKIT enables the user to export to Terraform or Ansible allowing DevOps to integrate into their currently established Infrastructure as Code workflow. One of the more interesting options is OKIT's ability to integrate with OCIs Resource Manager. This integration allows...
As part of the OCI Designer Toolkit (OKIT) series we will look at how OKIT integrates with OCIs Resource Manager to create Resource Manager stacks, apply those stacks and update them. Resource Manager...
With the OS Management Service (OSMS), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides a service to fully automate the patching of your Oracle Linux or Windows instances....
With the OS Management Service (OSMS), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides a service to fully automate the patching of your Oracle Linux or Windows instances. It allows you to organize your systems into groups and then schedule jobs to apply the latest updates to all these systems. There is a wide range of predefined software sources to choose from, providing the full wealth of the Oracle yum repositories to your Linux systems. In the simplest case, this will keep all your...
With the OS Management Service (OSMS), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides a service to fully automate the patching of your Oracle Linux or Windows instances. It allows you to organize your...
.cb11w1 ul li, .cb11w1 ol li { line-height: 1.4em; color: #404040 } Sometimes all you want to do is create regular backups of your instances. Policy-Based...
.cb11w1 ul li, .cb11w1 ol li { line-height: 1.4em; color: #404040 } Sometimes all you want to do is create regular backups of your instances. Policy-Based Backups to the rescue. All you need to do is choose from one of the existing policies or define your own and then apply that to the instance or volume you want to protect. This works like a charm and opens the door to cross-region copies and very simple restore operations. However, what do you do if you have multiple data...
.cb11w1 ul li, .cb11w1 ol li { line-height: 1.4em; color: #404040 } Sometimes all you want to do is create regular backups of your instances. Policy-Based Backups to the rescue. All you need to do is...
Following on from the Introduction to OKIT the The OCI Designer Toolkit blog post we will investigate the Template functionality; what's currently available and...
Following on from the Introduction to OKIT the The OCI Designer Toolkit blog post we will investigate the Template functionality; what's currently available and how the user can create their own templates and include these within OKIT. Templates The OKIT concept of Templates is a predefined architecture that can be used as a reference for creating your own architecture. These can be opened, modified and subsequently saved as your own implementation. Accessing Templates All...
Following on from the Introduction to OKIT the The OCI Designer Toolkit blog post we will investigate the Template functionality; what's currently available and how the user can create their own...
Before building your OCI Infrastructure you will need to spend time designing and visualising your architecture. This can be done using a variety of tools,...
Before building your OCI Infrastructure you will need to spend time designing and visualising your architecture. This can be done using a variety of tools, Microsoft Visio and Draw.io to name a few, but these are only diagrams useful for discussing the architecture missing key information that would allow you to translate the design into a working solution. To address these huge shortcomings of traditional design tools we decided to build OKIT. The OCI Designer Toolkit (OKIT)...
Before building your OCI Infrastructure you will need to spend time designing and visualising your architecture. This can be done using a variety of tools, Microsoft Visio and Draw.io to name a few,...
Introduction A load balancer (LB) monitors the health of the backend servers periodically to ensure that the requests are served only by healthy servers in a...
Introduction A load balancer (LB) monitors the health of the backend servers periodically to ensure that the requests are served only by healthy servers in a backend set. The OCI LB service supports 2 approaches for checking the health of the backend servers: TCP – Checks if a TCP (Layer 4) connection can be made to the backend server on a specified port. HTTP – Checks if a pre-configured URI is accessible over HTTP (Layer 7) and returns the expected result ( Status code or...
Introduction A load balancer (LB) monitors the health of the backend servers periodically to ensure that the requests are served only by healthy servers in a backend set. The OCI LB service supports 2...
Introduction I frequently come across the situation, where I find OCI Instances that have numerous well-known ports exposed to the public internet - VNC with...
Introduction I frequently come across the situation, where I find OCI Instances that have numerous well-known ports exposed to the public internet - VNC with Port 5901 being one of the common offenders. I have even come across OCI Instances where VNC was active with a logged in root session waiting to be used on the VNC without a password... This article will show in easy steps how to avoid this situation and walks through the secure use of VNC via an SSH tunnel. The second...
Introduction I frequently come across the situation, where I find OCI Instances that have numerous well-known ports exposed to the public internet - VNC with Port 5901 being one of the...
.cb11w1 ul li, .cb11w1 ol li { line-height: 1.4em; color: #404040 } In a previous blog post, I introduced the Oracle Cloud Metering API. The logical next step...
.cb11w1 ul li, .cb11w1 ol li { line-height: 1.4em; color: #404040 } In a previous blog post, I introduced the Oracle Cloud Metering API. The logical next step is to wrap some Python functions around the API calls and use them to get meaningful reports for a tenancy. This is what I’ll discuss here for a sample use case. For the sake of this example, let’s assume we’re interested in cost by compartment. This could easily be modified to use any other type of cost tracking tags....
.cb11w1 ul li, .cb11w1 ol li { line-height: 1.4em; color: #404040 } In a previous blog post, I introduced the Oracle Cloud Metering API. The logical next step is to wrap some Python functions...
.cb11w1 ul li, .cb11w1 ol li { line-height: 1.4em; color: #404040 } Anything the OCI Console displays is the result of REST calls to one of the various APIs...
.cb11w1 ul li, .cb11w1 ol li { line-height: 1.4em; color: #404040 } Anything the OCI Console displays is the result of REST calls to one of the various APIs through which all OCI services are available. After all, the Console is just as much a client to these APIs as the OCI CLI, the Python SDK or the Terraform provider. However, there is one area where the Console provides data not available via any of these other API clients: Cost Analysis. In fact, looking over the list of...
.cb11w1 ul li, .cb11w1 ol li { line-height: 1.4em; color: #404040 } Anything the OCI Console displays is the result of REST calls to one of the various APIs through which all OCI services...
