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ADWC – a Docker container to start/stop Oracle Cloud services

By Franck Pachot . In the previous post, I've explained how to start and stop the Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud service from PSM (PaaS Service Manager). There's a setup phase, and a run phase starting with(…)

Load Balancing with Docker Swarm mode and SQL Server containers

Docker swarm mode provides an easy way to publish ports for services. Indeed, in this mode all nodes participate in an ingress routing mesh and accept connections to any service port published. Thus, all incoming requests are routed to available(…)

How uid mapping works in Docker containers?

It can be interesting to see how uids between the docker host and docker containers are mapped. For example, for security concerns. As a reminder, docker containers are based on two linux kernel features:(…)

Deploy a Cloudera cluster with Terraform and Ansible in Azure – part 2

In this part of the blog posts series, we will show how ansible helps us to configure our cluster and install all pre-requisite needed for Cloudera Manager. Ansible is one of the most important automation tools currently. Ansible will help(…)

ADWC: start/stop with PSM Command Line Interface

By Franck Pachot . In the previous post, I explained how to create an Autonomous Data Warehouse with PSM (PaaS Service Manager Command Line Interface). The most common operation you want to do with it is(…)

ADWC: Creation of Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud service

By Franck Pachot . You want to try the Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud Service? That’s easy. Here is a Step-by-Step. Cloud Credits First, you need Cloud Credits. You may have bought them (any recent negotiation with(…)

Oracle 18c clone PDB and Transparent Data Encryption

Let’s do some tests with the Oracle 18c new feature in creating PDB clone with DBCA. Unfortunately, this feature does not work when you have TDE enabled. Just to remember, with Oracle 12.2 we had the possibility to create PDBs with(…)

Managing SQL Server sa credentials with Docker secrets on Swarm

A couple of weeks ago, I was working on a MSSQL Server docker image in a context of Hidora, a swiss cloud provider based on jelastic and for Docker-based applications. When writing(…)

Deploying PostgreSQL in MiniShift/OpenShift

The last post quickly outlined on how you can setup MiniShift for playing around with OpenShift on your workstation. In this post we'll setup PostgreSQL in MiniShift using the default PostgreSQL image that already comes with MiniShift.

Oracle Fusion Middleware Infrastructure 12.2.1.2.0 – Probable Incorrect Firewall Configuration

It was a long time that I wrote my last blog. Lots of customer activities and I had no time to write one. With the acquired knowledges, it’s time to write more blogs and share knowledge, don’t you think ?(…)