The Oracle Cloud or OCI is an extensive Cloud offering by Oracle. The possibilities are enormous. In part 1 we started exploring The Oracle cloud with Puppet. The first steps where installing the modules and making sure th authentication is set up correctly. Now we are going to continue on our journey and are inspecting and creating a network setup and an initial VM.

The Oracle Cloud or OCI is an extensive Cloud offering by Oracle. The possibilities are enormous. The Oracle Cloud provides you with a Web interface so you can create and manage cloud infrastructure. You can also you Terraform to automate the creation and destruction of Oracle cloud resources. Recently we have also added Puppet to the list of tools you can use to create and manage Oracle Cloud resources. This blog post we will use the new oci_config module to create and inspect Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

One of the elements of making and keeping your system secured is ensuring no unwanted and illegal OS user accounts are available on your system. Puppet has a mechanism for that. It is called auto purging. In this blog post, we will show you how this works and how you can use this safely.

While working as a software quality manager at a large company within the Netherlands, we started working on the repeatability and testability of our Linux platforms. We wanted to be able to deliver hight quality Linux platforms and deliver them fast. We believe that both of these abilities are key to achieving that goal. In the next month, I will post a series of blog posts on our experiences.