Nicolas Penot

Ansible Custom Interactive Dynamic Inventory

When working with an Ansible dynamic inventory, you may want to update it from your playbook on the fly. For instance, you may want to create a server and then install an application on it without calling a second playbook(…)

Git collaboration: quick start

Git collaboration: quick start If you want to keep the git repository of your project clean and predictive (which is highly recommendable), here is a simple workflow to follow. For the sake of this article, we are going to(…)

Automate AWS deployments with Ansible + Terraform

Automate AWS deployments with Ansible + Terraform This installation is made from a bastion server already available with the proper network permissions. For different deployment types, you should adapt it to your need.

Sparse OVM virtual disks on appliances

For some reason, you may need to sparse OVM virtual disks in an Oracle appliances. Even though that feature is present trough the OVM Manager, most of the Oracle appliances doesn’t have any OVM Manager deployed on it. Therefore(…)

Red Hat 8 Server in 9 minutes into the Google Cloud

Do you have 9 minutes to learn how to quick start with the Google Cloud? Here is a simple copy/past procedure to successfully deploy a Red Hat 8 compute server into the Cloud. Installation of the Google command client(…)

What Benefit You Get From The Cloud For Your Business?

Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Oracle offer infrastructure services whose names change, but the concepts remain the same. It may be that you are interested in the cloud too, but it's still not clear because you find(…)

Understand Oracle Text at a glance

What is Oracle Text? Oracle Text provides indexing, word and theme searching, and viewing capabilities for text in query applications and document classification applications. Oracle text activation for a user create user ORATXT identified by oratxt ; grant ctxapp(…)

Foglight: Monitoring solution for databases [Part 02]

Foglight is a powerful and all in one monitoring solution to monitor various IT infrastructure assets like databases, servers, applications and so on. Whenever you need to monitor a special assets like an Oracle database, a Windows server, a Tomcat(…)

Foglight: Monitoring solution for databases [Part 01]

What is Foglight? Foglight is a solution from Quest which promises to provide visibility into issues affecting the application and end user experience. The solution also helps you to find quickly the root cause in application, database, infrastructure, or network(…)

[Oracle 18c new feature] Quick win to improve queries with Memoptimized Rowstore

With its 18th release Oracle comes with many improvements. Some of them are obvious and some of them more discrete. This is the case of the new buffer area (memory area) called the Memoptimize pool. This new area, part(…)