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OCI Bastion Service Part II: Create Bastion Service Using OCI CLI and Terraform

Introduction In part II, and after demonstrating how to use OCI Bastion Service using the Console (see part I), we will cover how to create Bastion Service using automation tools..

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Cloud Recap – My Terraform Labs in 2021

Intro The first time I had seen a glimpse of this Infrastructure as a CodeArtifact in 2018 (presented by Roopesh Ramklass at our TOUG meetup), I found it ugly as hell and swore to..

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The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform Application Services Comparison

Introduction The common trend for cloud providers is to compare their services/offers with AWS (Amazon Web Services – even AWS itself does it when releasing new features). But it..

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RMAN, Incarnations, and ME Part II: Recovery ignoring backups / ORA-19563: Datafile copy header validation failed for file

Introduction In an ideal world, I believe, every backup script should be matched by 2 recovery scenarios. As this swiss OUC figure reminds us, having a backup that works means..

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RMAN, Incarnation, and ME Part I: “ORA-19906”: Recovery target incarnation changed during recovery

Intro If there is something I honestly always struggled with as a DBA, it’s the RMAN incarnation. Both are mystical like its name suggests and vital, ensuring absolute consistency..

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How to run Data Pump from a Pluggable Database as SYS when ORACLE_PDB_SID can’t work

In Oracle multitenant architecture, the default database container upon connection is CDB$ROOT. But as of 18c, a new environment variable appeared to ease the direct access to a..

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Terraform for Dummies Part 5: Terraform Deployment On-Premises (KVM)

Introduction For a long time, Terraform was associated with deploying resources in the cloud. But what many people don’t know is that Terraform already had private and..

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Create a Local Windows 10 VPN Bastion using a Vagrant Box

Introduction There are many examples online on how to create a Linux Vagrant Box including mine. But not so much around Windows boxes. The easiest way? Just shop around in Vagrant..

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Oracle Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) Cheatsheet

Do You Speak AHF? Oracle Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) presents the next generation of an all-in-one solution that includes tools that work together autonomously 24×7 to keep..

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