OCI Private DNS part 1 – Configuration

I’ve wanted to write something about this topic for quite a while and finally OCI has released it’s first step of Private DNS capabilities! Why do I think this is a big thing? For example let’s say you need to have Hub & Spoke model with multiple VCNs, if you’ve wanted to resolve hostnames between…

Setting up Custom Logs in OCI

With the recent announcement of Observability and Management platform I thought it’s good to try out how can we fetch logs from provisioned instances in OCI. In this post I’ll be making sure the instance I’m using has the Monitoring Agent required installed. Also I’ll make sure I have Log Group, Logs and Agent Configuration…

Use case for Network Security Groups in OCI

So a while back OCI got NSGs (Network Security Groups) but most what I still see with implementations is that people tend to use Security Lists. Remember Security Lists are applied on subnet level while NSGs are applied to VNICs. I recently got following dilemma on tenancy created a while back. Challenge All the subnets…

Terraform and OCI DHCP Options

Hello blog! Sorry I’ve been lacking with my posts but let’s kick it off again and with a bang! I’ve had few cases previously where I’m using Terraform modules and the blocks need to support one to many different values. This means that sometimes the values exist and sometimes they don’t. For this I thought…