Cloud

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(…)

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(…)

18c, Cloud First and Cloud Only features: think differently

By Franck Pachot . Remember the times when the Oracle Software features were the same on all platforms? Where Oracle databases could be ported to any relevant platform? Where we were able to try any feature, freely, by downloading the(…)

A free persistent Google Cloud service with Oracle XE

By Franck Pachot . In a previous post I've listed several free online services which run an Oracle XE so that you can test your SQL easily. You may want use Oracle XE further, with full(…)

Spectre and Meltdown on Oracle Public Cloud UEK – LIO

By Franck Pachot . In the last post I published the strange results I had when testing physical I/O with the latest Spectre and Meltdown patches. There is the logical I/O with(…)

Spectre/Meltdown on Oracle Public Cloud UEK – PIO

By Franck Pachot . The Spectre and Meltdown is now in the latest Oracle UEK kernel, after updating it with 'yum update': [opc@PTI ~]$ rpm -q --changelog kernel-uek | awk '/CVE-2017-5715|CVE-2017-5753|CVE-2017-5754/{print $NF}' | sort | uniq -c 43 {CVE-2017-5715} 16(…)

VirtualBox 5.2 exports the VM to the Oracle Cloud

By Franck Pachot . The new release of Oracle VM VirtualBox (aka VirtualBox) is there with a new functionality to export a VM to the Oracle Cloud Compute (aka Oracle Cloud Infrastructure). That can be interesting(…)

Managing Oracle Big Data Cloud – CE with REST API

In this blog post, we will see how to manage Oracle Public Cloud Big Data service Compute Edition with REST API. Scheduling the start/stop/restart of a metered PaaS in the Oracle Cloud can be interesting for managing efficiently the consumption(…)