For Always Free cloud infrastructure it’s quicker to start at the beginning. To help, Oracle made some examples to get you started! terraform-provider-oci/examples/always_free at master · oracle/terraform-provider-oci This is a Terraform configuration that creates the Always Free service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The Terraform…github.com Firstly, setup the prerequisites for a Quick Start using the Oracle cloud shell.

You’ve got your Oracle Cloud account, next on your to-do list is to run some official examples from the Oracle Github repository. However, many of the examples in Github still require you to configure your tenancy correctly. Oracle Quick Start Automated deployments of enterprise software on OCI. You can't perform that action at this time. You signed in with…github.com Fortunately, Oracle has the prerequisites detailed in a procedure on what to install…

Oracle offers a Functions as a Service (FaaS) in the Oracle cloud. It is named Oracle Functions. Oracle Functions is based on an open source project named Fn Project. Fn Project is an open source, container native, serverless platform that can be run anywhere — any cloud or on-premises. Fn Project Open Source. Container-native. Serverless platform. The Fn project is an open-source container-native serverless…fnproject.io

Installing SQL Developer on Linux doesn’t need to be difficult. Even so, Java 11 does need to be installed separately as a pre-requisite for later versions of SQL Developer. Let’s see how it’s done on the Fedora distro. Download Oracle Java 11 Previous versions of Oracle SQL Developer required Oracle JDK 8. Then Oracle…

For your next web application, you can now test for compatibility on Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge Legacy using various free Windows virtual machine appliances for Oracle VirtualBox. These days you can download the Edge browser for Linux, but if you are interested in developing for an earlier release of…

Installing Oracle VirtualBox in Windows is easy enough — but what about on Linux? Each Linux distro has their own default repository, and Oracle provides a VirtualBox package for most of the major Linux distributions. The following link lists the Oracle provided packages for VirtualBox: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

Imagine a use-case where you want to send sensitive documents (or any other file or message) to someone over the public internet. Because the medium is the public internet, you’ll want to use encryption to safeguard the information if someone else intercepts your communication. In another use-case, you may…

GnuPG + Tar = gpgtar GnuPG and the Tar utility are some of the most commonly used tools in the Free and Open Source community. GnuPG is a popular encryption and signing tool. Tar is derived from “tape archive”, as it was originally developed to write data to sequential I/O devices with no file system…

Oracle Database allows you to construct queries to return rows or a percentage of rows — with or without ties — making top-n, inner-n, and bottom-n querying easier than ever before. Using a top-n query, it’s easy to exclude trailing rows in order to answer a question such as “Who…