To invoke any Integration created in OIC, we need to pass the credentials i.e., Username/Password. Most of the times these Integrations which we develop are to be triggered by External Applications or Vendors and if we want to not take the risk of either sharing the exact Integration endpoint or…

In today’s blog we’ll discuss on how to Leverage OCI Functions to invoke OIC Integrations. Pre-Requisites Access to OCI Console. Access to OIC Instance and availability of Integrations to cover below scenarios. Access to create Function Applications & Functions within a compartment. Availability of a VCN & Subnet with a…

For creating/updating/deleting a user/compute/database/API Keys or anything for that matter we usually have four ways: 1. OCI Console. 2. OCI REST APIs through Postman. 3. OCI REST APIs through CURL commands. 4. OCI REST APIs through OCI SDKs. In this blog, we will focus our discussion around using OCI REST…

In this post, we will be touching up on a high-level as to what is OCI API Gateway and then in depth as to how you can use OCI API Gateway as front-end for your OIC Integrations. What is API Gateway ? In simple terms, API Gateway acts as a frontend to your applications so…

Often we hear from customers to create multiple user logins for a VM be it Windows or Linux, this is to give private access to every login. In this blog, we will learn how to create multiple users for a VM (Virtual Machine). In this blog, we will be discussing…

Architecture — Pre-requisites I will provision an Oracle Linux VM in the Private Subnet and a Public Load Balancer Infront of it, so that I can access the VM via LB.

Problem Statement — Most of the customers want their Data Science Notebooks not to be accessible publicly and that these should be accessible only from a particular network/VPN/CIDR range. Architecture Solution OCI has recently announced Private Endpoints for OCI Data Science Notebook sessions. Private Endpoint enables you to access the resource via a specific network…

Use-case Customers want to connect to database from their Local/VM to run couple of queries to check/modify data. More than this customers will be using the database connection in their applications. In this blog we will see how to address these scenarios. Connecting to Autonomous Database from Local/VM/Application can be done…

Problem Statement — Often customers come up with a request to move their VMs from a DVH (Dedicated Virtual Host) to a Shared VM on OCI as they will be paying a lot for DVH. Explanation OCI DVH is a Dedicated Server allocated to a tenant where they can run multiple VMs. Dedicated Servers…