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OCI – Recover lost SSH access to an Ubuntu instance

29.01.2024 by Morgan Patou

Getting started in the cloud is pretty easy but things can get a little messy pretty quickly. A few weeks ago, I faced a case where I suddenly lost the SSH access to an Ubuntu OCI instance used internally for(…)

Database management

New PostgreSQL service in OCI

13.12.2023 by Joan Frey

PostgreSQL, an open-source relational database management system, offers robust features and capabilities for data storage and management. Deploying PostgreSQL within the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) provides a scalable and reliable environment. In this guide, we’ll explore the process of setting(…)

Ansible

OCI: Automate your Oracle Cloud Database software releases deployment (db-home)

07.08.2023 by Jérôme Witt

As part of a very exciting project around Oracle Exadata Cloud @ Customer (aka. ExaCC) technology, we wanted to rollout in an automated manner the database software aka. ORACLE_HOME on ExaCC database clusters (aka. VM cluster). However, we rapidly identified(…)

Cloud

Troubleshoot cloud-unit “Error: Invalid cloud-config schema: user-data” @ Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

01.06.2023 by Jérôme Witt

While applying what seemed to be a minor update, we managed to “break” our cloud-init automated OCI compute instance deployment process. This blog describes how to quickly troubleshoot & debug your #cloud-config on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (not so different from(…)