OCI - Chronicles of Technology

Oracle Support Chat "powered by OCI Generative AI" is garbage

When I log in to the OCI console, the region on the top bar is always defaulting to "US West (Phoenix)". We have no resources in that region.

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Unable to add statement to 'Tenant Admin Policy' in OCI

I've been with OCI over 10 years, from the early days of their Gen1 cloud. So I've seen a lot in the journey of changes. One

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OCI Function Deployment Error

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers serverless functions. For OCI, function development requires tools to create and deploy code in accordance. This set of independent tools often results in mysterious errors.

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Cloud resources and services no longer showing up on OCI console

Our OCI services have been working fine for years. They are used to host a few blog platforms, websites, development environments, and other odd services. A few months ago, none

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HTTP 400 Bad Request when calling OCI REST due to "Unable to parse message body"

I was able to successfully use the instructions in a blog post titled Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) REST call walkthrough with curl written by the Oracle A-Team to call an OCI REST service to create an Autonomous Database without using oci-curl. I was able

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Resolving OCI Management Agent installation error

Problem Getting "Error: Transaction failed" when installing the Oracle Management Agent which is downloaded from the OCI console. These are the steps I performed: 1. Navigate to "Observability & Management", then click on "Management Agent" 2. Click on

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OCI: Secure Load Balancer

It started as a routine wildcard certificate renewal and updating on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. It usually takes about 20 minutes, but not today when the certbot offered me a private key update.

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Oracle OCI: It has queues!

Oracle OCI and Amazon AWS are similar and different at the same time. Yes, at the very basic, they offer you the same services - cloud infrastructure to run your workload, but AWS always dominated by the broad set of tools, features, and capabilities if you compare them by dozens.

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OCI: Firewall on Ubuntu 20.04

If you have created a load balancer and can't reach your backend servers, check a target firewall configuration, especially if you run Ubuntu.

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Sensitive data in Terraform

Terraform is probably the best choice to manage your infrastructure as a code. And if we are talking code, let's see how you can keep sensitive information away from your code repository.

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How Oracle Cloud helps you save on Oracle Cloud

The recent Ahmed's post on OCI client installation gave me an idea to post this piece. My Oracle Cloud trial has ended, and I have no other option but to be more budget aware. The most apparent recipe is quite similar to the basic household rule: "Turn the lights off when you leave the room."

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Can't find the "oci" executable in Oracle Cloud?

A few months ago, I attended an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure workshop in Oracle Reston. In one of the hands-on labs, it appears that the oci executable was not found in