Export OCI Resource with Terraform
The Terraform OCI provider that is used to manage resources on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, has a hidden feature that
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Ansible and Jenkins — Automate Your Scritps
Here is an excellent article by Valery Tikhonov about combining these three powerful technologies for executing repetitive tasks. https://itnext.io/ansible-and-jenkins-automate-your-scritps-8dff99ef653
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Ansible: Generate List of Dictionaries
Let’s put the band back together! Here is a quick way of merging two lists into a list of dictionaries.
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Jenkins: Populate Choice Parameter from Shell Command
For my requirement I needed to populate a choice parameter (select list) with the list of compartments from my Oracle
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Jenkins Pipeline: Loop Multiple Databases
Here is an example for using Jenkins to loop through multiple Oracle databases (pluggable databases in this case), and execute
Read MoreOCI Instance: Secondary VNIC Routing
After adding a secondary VNIC to your compute instance, you’ll need to enable the OCID service which checks for changes
Read MoreOCI Compute Instance: Mount Boot Volume from Backup
If you need to recover a file from a boot volume backup in Oracle Linux on an OCI compute instance,
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APEX: Fetch CLOB data via AJAX callback.
In my use case, I needed to fetch data (JSON) larger than 32k into a JavaScript variable. In APEX versions
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OCI CLI: Query By Tags
Tagging your resources is a must. Not only for billing purposes, but also for staying organized and knowing who to
Read MoreTerraforming Power with CSV Files
It is often easier to collect resource information for Terraform through spreadsheets. In this example, I’ll build a number of
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