Infrastructure at your Service
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. The following is a non-exhaustive list of Terraform advantages : – Terraform can deploy infrastructure to multiple cloud service providers simultaneously – With Terraform, you can easily preview and validate infrastructure changes before they are applied…
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 because there is often confusion, which I tried to clarify in What is a database backup (back to the basics). And the terms used in managed cloud services or documentation is not very clear, not always the same, and sometimes…
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 instal MySQL Server on the Compute instance. Some weeks later, the new MySQL Database Service (MDS) was out and I can show you now how to install and configure it.
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 about database backups (see What is a database backup (back to the basics)). On one side, in a managed database, we should not have to care about backups, but only about recovery. The way it is…
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 on the company. Advantages of cloud are certainly: With just a few clicks you can scale your environment. It can be extremely cost-effective, depending on what you need. Reduced IT administration effort. No more investment costs for server hardware….
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 solution is good enough and probably better than anything else. But now, public clouds are a real alternative to on-premise servers, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is a solid competitor vs Amazon and Azure public clouds….
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. We often created a ‘/data’ directory to put everything that is not binaries and configuration files. I’ll always remember when I did that while working in Dakar. My colleagues were laughing for minutes – my Senegalese followers will understand…
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.
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 you enable Autonomous Data Guard. You know that “Autonomous” is the marketing brand for the services that automate a lot of things, sometimes based on features that are in Oracle Database for a long time. So let’s…
Introduction Cloud, Cloud, Cloud. Everyone is talking about the Cloud but a lot of people are still in the fog with Cloud technologies. Let’s talk about basic features of the Oracle Cloud, called OCI for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. What is really OCI? OCI is physically a lot of servers in datacenters all around the world. These servers are not very different from the servers you probably have in your own datacenter. Some of these servers…
