The OCI Manager iPhone App is still going strong š Over 300 people have installed the App and the 5th release v1.4 is now available. The Last 2 released have added the following features: View the Console of Compute Instances Added support for sub compartment bug fixes You can find the App in the Appleā¦ Read More »
When you are running your instances on OCI, you sometimes would like to know inside the instance where it really it. Well this is possible by using OCI Metadata service. The Metadata service listen on 169.254.169.254 and will report back information about the Instance, like OCID, Displayname, Shape, Region, etc. Including any custom Metadata thatā¦ Read More »
Knowing what is going on in your OCI environment can be a daunting task. The OCI Audit service logs everything, and I mean really everything. Most of these log entries are just queries for information, so it can be a challenge finding and understand these Audit Events. In the new release of the iPhone OCIā¦ Read More »
This was the week of Oracle Open World. A huge Oracle customer and partner gathering in San Francisco, with of course many new announcements. There were 2 Larry keynotes, one focusing on OCI and the other on the Oracle Applications business. Larry made it very clear that OCI (The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) is a NEWā¦ Read More »
Cost-Tracking Tags Managing your consumption cost is of course important in any Cloud situation. To make it easier to understand what project is consuming what, OCI now support Cost-Tracking Tags. You can create (currently) up to 10 different cost-tracking tags. For each resource like Compute, Storage, Database and Networking you can assign these Tags withā¦ Read More »
Amazingly enough, I am not the only one developing IOS apps for the Oracle Cloud. Alex Barbaneagra, an Oracle senior sales consultant in Romania, has developed an iPhone App to manage your Oracle Ravello. Within the App you can see your blueprints and applications. Inside the applications you can see all your Virtual Machines andā¦ Read More »
Well it took a few late nights of nerding, but I finished version 1 of my OCI Management App for the iPhone š Below you can see a preview video. The App is now available in the Apple App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/oci-manager/id1439011461 If you need help configuring the App, here are the instructions: https://www.oc-blog.com/iphone/ The appā¦ Read More »
If you want to connect your cloud environment securely with your on premise environment you can do this with the built in VPN service of OCI. I have in my own (on premise) environment a pfsenseĀ virtual appliance running that acts as my router/firewall/vpn box. Below a video explanation and demonstration on how to easily createā¦ Read More »
Last week I released a script that allows you to schedule the scaling of an Oracle Database running on the baremetal cloud instances. That script was designed to run inside the actual Database instance. The new Oracle Autonomous services do not allow you to do this, as these are fully managed platforms by Oracle, soā¦ Read More »
Whoop whoop! I just passed the OCI Associate Exam. While I have reasonable hands-on experience with OCI, for preparationĀ I read the study guide and did the test exam. You can find the preparation documents here: https://education.oracle.com/product/pexam_1Z0-932 Ā I guess I had 57 correct and 13 not correct š . Currently the study guide mainly coversā¦ Read More »