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.

Updating to a newer Oracle version is a constant challenge for IT managers. Every time support ends on the current used Oracle version, A lot of installation and tests have to be done by the DBAs and the test teams to achieve a smooth transition. One of the main problems The DBAs face is that it is very time consuming and error-prone to provide all the development and test teams a set of provisioned systems. This leads to delays in these migration projects and sometimes increased risks because of using unsupported Oracle versions.