Example of how to use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Gen 2 with Terraform – MacBook Pro OS – part 1

Terraform is becoming more and more relevant in DBA’s activities. Therefore, I decided to start a series of articles where I will be covering the use of Terraform with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure from the scratch. It is important to mention that both Oracle Infrastructure and Terraform has been evolving daily and modifications on the steps can arise after a while. The steps here are from October 2020 and may be accurate for the next nearest months. Before we start let’s learn new concepts. What is Terraform? To answer this question…

Oracle Database 18c: Provisioning the Oracle Autonomous Database in the Cloud

For this step you will need to create the account in the Oracle Cloud with this link, https://cloud.oracle.com/home . Before you provide the database you need to create a Compartment. If you have not yet created one click on “Identity” and later on “Compartments” under the “Governance and Administration” tab of the menu: Then click “Create Compartment” if there is none existing : The root compartment is the first compartment created. From it, it is possible to create other compartments by using them as an option in the “Parent Compartment”…