OCI Functions are powerful components in a cloud native world. Triggered by events and direct requests, these functions are engaged to perform a specific task. Which could be almost anything (as long as it does not take too long). And it can certainly be some task that requires access to…

“Can we let go of that office building?” (we pay rent, utilities, furniture — is that still necessary or justified) “Well, I believe Chris is still making use of that building.” Chris: “my team meets Wednesday morning every other week in one of the conference rooms in that building.” (Chris’…

Some of the data used by Terraform to create cloud resources is sensitive and should not be stored in plain text in source code repositories. Examples are passwords, client secrets, API tokens. Even though the Terraform configurations are (infrastructure as) code — not every element can be treated as code. …

This article describes how a Terraform plan can read configuration data at plan and application time from local or remote JSON documents to provide dynamic, easily and centrally maintainable settings that guide the provisioning process. Terraform variables are static: they are assigned using their default value (which cannot use function…

Terraform is used for automated provisioning of resources on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. …

Terraform is the tool of choice for automated provisioning of cloud resources on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (IaC). In two recent articles, I have demonstrated how to create a plan with resource definitions to be processed by the OCI provider for Terraform and how to (re)use a Terraform Module to allow…

The creation of cloud resources on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is ideally done as Infra as Code using Terraform (plans). No hands need to touch the console, no permissions need to be given to individual users and all actions can be previewed, tested and easily repeated. …

The creation of cloud resources on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is ideally done as Infra as Code using Terraform (plans). No hands need to touch the console, no permissions need to be given to individual users and all actions can be previewed, tested and easily repeated. OCI has deep support for…

Messages published to an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Queue may not immediately be intended for consumption. It is a not uncommon requirement to make messages available for consumption only at a specific moment in time, rather than right away. OCI Queue does not currently have built in support for a…