Cloud A Terraform Module for Setup of OCI-Azure Interconnect Max Jahn, August 30, 2020March 29, 2023 Just this week I published a Terraform module for setting up an OCI-Azure interconnect. This basically is the code I already provided earlier and described in a few of my older posts. What you will get The module will create a few resources on Azure and OCI to set up… Continue Reading
Cloud Keeping Oracle Serverless Functions warm with a poor man’s Cron Max Jahn, August 6, 2020March 30, 2023 Oracle Functions suffer from one of the minor issues of having a container based platform that will spin down the container after some time of running idle. The next time the function is called, the container will be spun up again, taking some seconds time to do so. This is… Continue Reading
Cloud Fun with Functions – OCI Serverless Part 2: Go Functions and Events Max Jahn, August 3, 2020November 12, 2023 This is the second part of my series covering aspects of Oracle Functions. To get an understanding of the environment we are working in, i recommend reading part 1 first if you haven’t done so already. In this post i will cover a simple serverless function written in Go that… Continue Reading
Cloud Fun with Functions – OCI Serverless Part 1: Environment Setup Max Jahn, July 27, 2020November 12, 2023 I’ve been pretty busy lately, doing certifications for OCI and Azure and having to deal with daily business, so there was no post on this blog for quite some time. As you might have guessed, i had as well spent some time digging into the Oracle serverless offering which is… Continue Reading
Cloud Runtime version problems when building fnproject functions? Just roll your own images then. Max Jahn, July 24, 2020November 12, 2023 When playing around with Oracle Functions and fnproject i pretty soon encountered some build problems for my function written in Go. It simply didn’t play well with some newer Go modules i was using. To understand what was happening here, you need to understand how serverless functions in fnproject are… Continue Reading
Cloud Running Unikernels on Oracle OCI Max Jahn, March 27, 2020November 12, 2023 Unikernels have been discussed for some time as alternatives to full blown virtual machines or containers in cloud environments. In this post i will take a look at running a simple microservice on a unikernel in Oracle OCI. Continue Reading
Cloud Using Azure AD for Authentication for Oracle APEX Applications Max Jahn, March 9, 2020March 30, 2023 Wouldn’t it be nice to have some low-code app built with APEX that integrates nicely with your Azure AD for authentication? Actually it is pretty easy to do so, i will show you the simple steps to get it done. Continue Reading
Cloud Accessing Oracle Autonomous Database on OCI from Microsoft Azure using Transit Routing Max Jahn, March 4, 2020November 12, 2023 I will show how to establish routing that will let a client on Azure access an Autonomous Database (or in fact any other OCI Service) without leaving the Azure and OCI networks. This will increase performance, security and reliability of this connection. Continue Reading
Analysis Azure – Oracle Cloud (OCI) Interconnect Network Latency Shootout Max Jahn, February 9, 2020July 26, 2024 The interconnect between Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud seems to be a hot topic lately. I often hear of the scenario to run an Oracle database on OCI and some applications on Azure, which is interesting to companies moving to the cloud. But one of the major concerns always seem… Continue Reading
Cloud Private/Hybrid DNS on Oracle Cloud (OCI) with Terraform Max Jahn, January 22, 2020March 30, 2023 One situation i experienced recently with OCI was the lack of support for hybrid DNS. A typical use case for this is the use of private DNS zones for giving nicer names to the servers in you private network never meant to be visible to the world, therefore not supposed… Continue Reading