Cloud

Cloud CLI

By Franck Pachot . Here is how to quickly install the CLI (Command Line Interface) for the following public clouds: Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle. On Linux, I’m using wget but you can use curl. I’ll install all cloud(…)

AWS EC2 instance deployment with Terraform

When it comes to quickly provision a server in the Cloud, using an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool is a solution to consider. There are many IaC products available and among them, Terraform seems to be the most popular.

Recovery in the ☁ with Google Cloud SQL (PostgreSQL)

By Franck Pachot . In a previous post I started this series of “Recovery in the ☁” with the Oracle Autonomous database. My goal is to explain the recovery procedures, especially the Point-In-Time recovery procedures(…)

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(…)

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(…)

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(…)

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(…)

What is Object Storage?

By Franck Pachot . I’ve always been working with databases. Before the cloud era, the most abstract term was “data”. A variable in memory is data. A file is data. A block of disk contains data.

Installing MySQL Server on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute

If you are thinking about to move your MySQL databases to the Cloud but you are still reticent, you can maybe use the "Oracle Cloud Free Tier" offer to test it.

A Serverless Standby Database called Oracle Autonomous Data Guard

By Franck Pachot . Announced by Larry Ellison last week, here it is: the Autonomous Data Guard. You can try it, unfortunately not on the Free Tier. First you create an Autonomous Database (ATP or ADW) and then(…)