Nextcloud is a popular open-source collaboration and file hosting platform. There are many options available to install and deploy Nextcloud, with packaged distributions available for most platforms, including NAS devices, Raspberry Pi, or VM and Docker deployments. Personally, I run Nextcloud on my home network on a Raspberry Pi. You…

The OCI Cloud Shell is an excellent way of quickly using the OCI CLI and other tools for managing you OCI environment from the command line, but what if you’re still using the OCI Classic services? If you’re running in an environment with access to both OCI and OCI Classic…

This article was partially inspired by a question on Reddit asking how to list all Oracle Cloud Infrastructure instances and their IP addresses. One way to approach this is using a simple Python script with the OCI Python-SDK, but I also wanted to find a way to run this directly…

This article covers a common configuration pattern that I’ve been meaning to post for a while. When provisioning IaaS resources in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), some resources, specifically IAM resources, can only be created in the Home Region. If a configuration requires the creation of IAM resource, like a new…

For general usage installing GraphViz on MacOS is fairly straightforward. GraphViz is available as a Homebrew package which can be installed as simply as: $ brew install graphviz However, at the time of writing, the brewed version of Graphviz 2.40.1_1 has some limitations. Graphviz can be built with several optional…

The OCI Terraform provider terraform-provider-oci v3.33.0 introduces support for Network Security Groups. This, in my opinion, is a game-changer for how to define IaaS security rules in your Terraform configurations. Network Security Groups Learn how you can use network security groups to control traffic for a particular group of VNICs at the packet level.docs.cloud.oracle.com With the current VCN Security Lists, security rules are applied to all instance vNICs within the subnet that uses the…

My initial post on Managing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure iSCSI Block Volume attachments with Terraform only covered the steps for Oracle Linux instances. In this article we’ll look at how the same approach can be used for attaching iSCSI block volumes to Windows instances. Enable remote-exec provisioning with WinRM First we need to enable the instance…

Attaching additional block storage data volumes to instances is a common use case for many IaaS cloud deployments. This article outlines an approach to managing the attachment and connection details for iSCSI block volumes on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) compute instances with Terraform. | Terraform 0.11.10, provider.oci 3.5.0, …

This article covers how to get started using the Terraform Providers for Oracle Cloud to deploy and manage application deployments to the Oracle Application Container Cloud Service Oracle Application Container Cloud Service provides a rapid and scalable platform for application deployment on a choice of runtime platforms including Java EE…