Category: Oracle Cloud

Oracle Cloud

Oct 03

Enable YUM in OCI DBaaS Compute Instances

If you have some DBaaS computes nodes in your OCI, you will note that they don't come with any YUM repo configured by default. This is purposely architect to avoid you from installing or messing the system that you should be using "As a Service". [root@db19c ~]# yum install swift Loaded plugins: versionlock There are …

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Jul 14

OCI Volumes - What happens to Incremental backup when Full is deleted?

Those days, in one of my company mail threads, a colleague stated: "We have tested the restores, when the oldest backup is an incremental and prior full backups have been deleted. It works!" This is a pretty funny scenario. So I've decided to do some further investigations to understand what really happens in the background: …

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May 06

Exporting all usage and cost report from your Oracle Cloud at once

To track your tenancy cost and usage reports, Oracle made available from the OCI portal the capability of downloading files that are generate daily and uploaded to the bling storage bucket. However, it lack the feature to download all files at once for a specified timeframe. Note: To enable this, you require some policies in …

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Mar 18

OCI "manage database-family" policy not working

On OCI, sometimes you may want to restrict the capability of a given group to only manage databases in a given compartment. Let's say your compartment name is NPRD and the group name is DBAs. Usually you would end-up with something like this on your policies: allow group DBAs to manage database-family in compartment NPRD …

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Mar 18

Consolidating authentication flow of multiple IDCS's in a single one

Those days, I was working on a customer that had several Oracle IDCS providers. Two of them for Oracle Cloud at Customer different appliances and one Oracle Cloud Infrastrucure account. There was a requirement to consolidate all users authentication flow on a single IDCS, so there was no need of keeping them all synced across …

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