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Oracle Cloud

How to learn Oracle Cloud and take 3 certifications per month with your ULS

In this article I will give a quick walk-though of the steps you can take to achieve some of the cool Oracle Cloud certifications that are being offered with about 1-2 hours of studies per day and an ULS subscription. Recently, I've noticed that oracle is offering many new certifications for their cloud PaaS and …

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OCI - Mapping compute shapes with billing configuration

Whenever you create compute instances on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, it's hard to correspond the shapes that you are choosing to create (eg: VM.Standard2.X) with the prices that the OCI Cost Estimator Website or even the contract that you sign with Oracle when buying credits will show to you (eg: Compute - Virtual Machine Standard - …

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Creating read-only account for REST billing access on Oracle Cloud

In this article I will describe the steps you need to take if you want to create an account in your Oracle Cloud with read-only access to your oracle cloud billing information. Please note this article was written on June-2019, and as Oracle is introducing new-features and changing the look n' feel of the pages …

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Force a private IP during Load Balancer creation in OCI

Those days, I needed to recreate a Load Balancer in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for a specific reason. It was a private Load Balancer. The problem is that when you create a Load Balancer, you can't specify the Private IP address in the Subnet that you want to use.. Oracle will pick automatically 3 IPs from …

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"Verify Access Signing Certificate in Settings" in OCI when running curl REST calls

Those days I was trying to retrieve some OCI Json data using REST calls via curl. However, even though I've set up an application and Client ID and Secret accordingly, I was getting the error below: { "httpStatusCode" : 401, "httpMessage" : "Unauthorized", "executionContextId" : "005WAjCLgER1FgyN06YBUF0003so0000FI,0:1:1", "errorCode" : "urn:oracle:cloud:errorcode:tas:unauthorized", "errorMessage" : "Invalid Bearer Token: java.lang.Exception: …

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