Earlier this week I took the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Architect Associate certification 1Z0-932 which I had been studying for few months while using OCI at the same time. Glad to say I passed it with good score to leave me happy on the effort! As the certification is quite new there isn’t a lot…
Using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform modules
When I started to use Terraform I quickly adapted on concept of using modules with it. Why? Because in my opinion the more you can automate and standardize the easier overall management of your solution becomes. So what are modules and why should I use them? I made a short video presentation on creating infrastructure…
Getting to know basics of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing service
Feels like I’m jumping bit from topic to another but I had some testing ongoing with OCI Load Balancing service so thought to write a post on it. I’ll also throw few comparisons with AWS ELB so it gives an idea how Oracle has done it’s service. In OCI the Load Balancing (LB) service is…
OCI network with public and private subnets
When you create your VCN (Virtual Cloud Network) in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure so that you have a virtual network for your compute servers you then create subnets under the VCN. The subnets will contain part of CIDR block you have allocated for the VCN. If you are not familiar with VCN then good place to…
Using oci-cli for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Slow updates recently as I was getting ready to two AWS exams. Happy to announce that I passed both the Solutions Architect Associate and the SysOps Administrator Associate! As I’m working with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as well now then next stop will be to pass the OCI Solutions Architect Associate exam. I think it…
FinnishingThoughts Podcast first episode is out!
For already quite some time I’ve thought it would be great to discuss on interesting topics with some of the Oracle experts out there and now I’m happy to say my first episode on FinnishingThoughts Podcast is out! https://finnishingthoughts.podbean.com/mf/web/gjhz6m/Finnishing_Thoughts_Episode_1_-_Julian_Dontcheff.mp3 In my first episode my guest is an Oracle Ace Director who works as…
Attended Oracle Cloud Infrastructure seminar – part 2
In this post I will go through rest of services we discussed in the seminar. You can read part 1 from here. 5. Compute Services 6. Storage – Block volume & Object storage 7. Load Balancer 8. Database Services 9. A Lab 5. Compute Services So this is the service where you will create your…
Attended Oracle Cloud Infrastructure seminar – part 1
I had the opportunity to attend half a day seminar about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) what Oracle offers. Here are some notes about it and some comparison to Amazon Web Services which I have been using a lot lately as well. Content The seminar was divided in to few different topics which were: Introduction to…
Loading customizations to e-Business Suite with Ansible
Happy new year! I’ll continue with Ansible topic with one more post as it has helped our small operations team quite a lot lately. We still run Oracle e-Business Suite 12.1.3 and the amount of customizations we have is really high(No surprise there!). Due to some historical reasons initially we were loading custom objects to…
Two ways to change Oracle passwords with Ansible
We do our share of database cloning for various purposes and usually the cloning process is fairly scripted. However lately we have been looking more and more into Ansible which as per their site is simple automation/orchestration tool. (Not so sure about simple!) Recently there has been also lot of presentations on automating your Oracle infrastructure…