Now that we have a network in our tenancy, we can start building servers to some fun software. We will continue to use Terraform and our same repository for deploying and configuring the servers. If you want to catch up, the repository and branch for the last post is here. I’ll be running the Terraform build from the OCI Cloud Shell, but this will work from your local terminal too. The first thing we need to do is specify that we will be using two providers as part of our project. The oci provider is already pre-installed in OCI Cloud Shell, but to be clear that our project is u ..read more

Now that we have a network in our tenancy, we can start building servers to some fun software. We will continue to use Terraform and our same repository for deploying and configuring the servers. If you want to catch up, the repository and branch for the last post is here. I’ll be running the Terraform build from the OCI Cloud Shell, but this will work from your local terminal too. The first thing we need to do is specify that we will be using two providers as part of our project. The oci provider is already pre-installed in OCI Cloud Shell, but to be clear that our project is u ..read more

This week on the podcast, Dan shares how he uses Heartbeat to track uptime in PeopleSoft and Kyle discusses the new Password Management features in Cloud Manager 16. Show Notes Uptime Monitoring with PeopleSoft @ 2:00 My Preferences Phone Number @ 16:00 Cloud Manager and Passwords @ 18:00 Graham Smith – Cloud Manager 16 Features psst – PeopleSoft Secrets Tool ..read more

Heartbeat is a lightweight utility from Elasticsearch that can help you monitor the status and uptime of different applications. In our case, we can use Heartbeat to tell us if a PeopleSoft environment is available or not. Using HTTP monitors, Heartbeat can request a specific URL and evaluate the response. While other utilities can do the same thing, Heartbeat was built to send data to Elasticsearch (and Opensearch) and comes with delivered dashboards. This makes is easy to build a quick dashboard to show our PeopleSoft environment status. Running Heartbeat There are multiple ways to run ..read more

This is one of those blog posts I write for myself because I want it to show up when I Google this the next time. When playing around with new containers there are lots of options, but at work I have access to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and it’s so easy to spin up a new Oracle Linux 8 instance for testing. OCI has a container instance type, but before I run containers on that service I often like to play around with the volume mounts and other settings first. I find Podman-Compose to be the easiest (for me) to try things. In this post I’ll explain how I install Podman in a rootless configurat ..read more

If you want to catch up on the project, you can get the last posts’ code here: https://github.com/ocadmin-io/oci.minecraft/tree/02-terraform Virtual Cloud Networks The first resource we will build for our Minecraft project is a Virtual Cloud Network (VCN). A VCN is a software-based network we create in our tenancy. You can create multiple VCN’s in your tenancy if you want to separate resources in different networks. There are a number of resources that are part of a VCN that all work together to create a fully featured network. Subnets are ranges of IP addresses within your VCN. A s ..read more

After creating a Git repository to track our first Terraform project, I updated my bash prompt to show me the git branch. This information is only shown when we are in Git repository and makes is easy to see which branch your working on. This change is a bigger than just updating the PS1 variable, so I pulled all of the bash prompt code into a new file called ~/.bash_prompt Here is the code for ~/.bash_prompt $ cat ~/.bash_prompt prompt_git() { local s=''; local branchName=''; # Check if the current directory is in a Git repository. if [ $(git rev-parse --is ..read more

In our fresh tenancy, the first thing we’ll do is connect Terraform. We will use Terraform to build resources as a first option, and a CLI as the second option. This will help enforce an Infrastructure-as-Code deployment. Before we write any code we need to create a Git repository to track our code. There will be a number of repositories for our tenancy, so I created a parent directory (named after my tenancy) to organize them. Log into OCI and start a Cloud Shell session. We will create a new Git repository for a sample project called minecraft. $ echo "export ocitenancy=<your tenanc ..read more

Recently, I created a new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure environment and decided to document the steps I went through to go from a brand-new tenancy to a functioning PeopleSoft environment. These blog posts can service as a guide for administrators who are new to OCI, or for experienced administrators who want to look at a different way to build and manage their tenancy. I’m taking a Terraform-first approach to building the tenancy, and strive to have the bare minimum manual steps when building objects in the cloud. I want to leverage infrastructure-as-code and automation every place we can so th ..read more

You can run PeopleSoft Images on your laptop using three tools that work seamlessly together: VirtualBox, Vagrant, and Vagabond. VirtualBox is virtualization software to run a VM on your laptop (any Intel-based laptop, not Apple Silicon-based Macs) Vagrant is a tool to interact with VirtualBox that can automate VM builds Vagabond is an open source tool that delivers automation to build a PeopleSoft Image. Download and install VirtualBox and Vagrant on your laptop. Next, you will need to download Vagabond from GitHub. The preferred way to to download is via git (you can install Git but it’s ..read more