Cloud

Convert private key generated via OCI Console to ppk

I am pretty new on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure technology, so maybe I am talking about something you already know. But anyway I prefer to share this case: it can help if you encounter the same(…)

Installing MySQL Database Service (MDS)

On a previous blog post, we saw how to create an account on the Oracle OCI using the Oracle Cloud Free Tier offer and then how to(…)

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(…)

Recovery in the ☁ with Oracle Autonomous Database

By Franck Pachot . I’ll start this series with the Oracle Autonomous database but my goal is to cover the Point In Time recovery for many managed databases in the major cloud providers. Because I’ve seen lot of confusion(…)

AWS DynamoDB -> S3 -> OCI Autonomous Database

By Franck Pachot . I contribute to multiple technologies communities. I’m an Oracle ACE Director for many years, and I also became an AWS Data Hero recently 🎉. I got asked(…)

Swiss Cloud Provider: Exoscale

Background More and more companies are moving from on premise hosting to cloud hosting. There are many justifications to move to the cloud, but also also many justifications not to move to the cloud. It depends(…)

NoSQL and SQL: key-value access always scale

By Franck Pachot . I have written about some NoSQL myths in previous posts (here and here) and I got some feedback from people mentioning that the test case was on(…)

Oracle Database Appliance vs Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Introduction Oracle Database Appliances are very popular these days. And not only among new customers for this kind of engineered systems. Almost all customers already using old generation ODAs are renewing their infrastructure by choosing again ODAs, meaning that the(…)

YCSB (NoSQL benchmark) on Oracle Database

By Franck Pachot . The NoSQL technologies emerged for Big Data workloads where eventual consistency is acceptable and scaling out to multiple server nodes is an easy answer to increase throughput. With cloud services rising, those key-value document datastores(…)

Setup an NGINX Ingress Controller on Kubernetes

One of the most important and basic concept in Kubernetes is the Service exposition. How about exposing a Kubernetes Service deployed inside a cluster to outside traffic? Let’s have a look on the different approaches to expose a Kubernetes(…)