A long waiting functionality is now available in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: the Resource Scheduler. Now you can control the start and stop of OCI resources like Compute Instances and Autonomous Databases in OCI directly. This saves money and makes previous solutions with tags, cron commands by OCI-CLI, functions or 3rd-party tools unnecessary. The scheduler is located at tenancy level and can handle static or dynamic resources based on search criteria. As this is the First Release, sometime the schedule creation fails but the error box is empty, even when all required text field are filled out, creation was not possible. But again, for the first release not so bad. I miss actually the functionality to create more than one action…
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Oracle Cloud Infastructure – Enable Multipath for Ultra High Performance UHP Storage
The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Block Volume service leverages NVMe-based storage for consistent performance and offers flexible and elastic performance options. You only need to provision the required capacity, and the performance scales according to the selected performance level, up to the service limits. There are four performance levels available who have a direct impact at performance. Four Levels of Performance Ultra High Performance: Ideal for workloads with the highest I/O demands, offering the best possible performance. This level allows you to purchase between 30 and 120 VPUs per GB/month. Higher Performance: Suitable for workloads with high I/O requirements that do not need the peak performance of the Ultra High Performance level. This level provides 20 VPUs per GB/month. Balanced: The…
Read MoreOracle Cloud Infrastructure CLI – How to fix sign.py:10: CryptographyDeprecationWarning
WSL2 is a game-changer for developers like me. I prefer Oracle Linux 8 for coding in Ansible, Terraform, and OCI-CLI. Setting up Oracle Linux 8.8 on WSL2 from the Microsoft Store was easy. With OCI CLI configured within the Linux environment, managing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure resources became effortless. WSL2 eliminates the need for additional virtualization software, providing a seamless Linux environment on Windows. This integration has significantly improved my development workflow, making tasks like deploying infrastructure and managing cloud resources more accessible. In conclusion, WSL2’s integration with Windows and support for various Linux distributions, including Oracle Linux, has transformed the way I work. If you’re a developer, I highly recommend giving WSL2 a try – it might just revolutionize your…
Read MorePCA X9-2 – Console Connection – How To
In a customer project, we have two Oracle Private Cloud Appliance X9-2 up and running. The management of a PCA X9-2 is almost like in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Even when the style of the user interface is not so cool. This week after a change on a virtual machine, the machine was not able to boot again. As in OCI, then Console Connection is the best way to troubleshoot the situation and gather more information. In this blog post I show you how to connect to a virtual machine from a Windows platform. See here for the virsh connection when no VCN viewer is available: PCA X9-2 – Console Connection – virsh Version Architecture Prerequisites Documentation – PCA 3.0.2 https://docs.oracle.com/en/engineered-systems/private-cloud-appliance/3.0/user-3.0.2/user-usr-compute.html#usr-instance-consoledisplay…
Read MoreHardening Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – Part 2: Remediation
In the first blog part, I wrote that’s not so easy to identify risk in your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure account. CIS – Center of Internet Security – has a free benchmark which supports you in hardening your account. And with Palo Alto Prisma or OCI Cloud Guard, there are two tools which provide information too. But I want to have an easier way to identify and remediate dangers. select * from cloud; Steampipe.io provides a powerful CLI tool, where you can query cloud account by API. Instead if clicking actions in the user interface to find out who has no MFA enabled, just execute this query: steampipe query “select name, is_mfa_activated from oci_identity_user where is_mfa_activated=false;” +———————————————————+——————+ | name | is_mfa_activated…
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