Ron Ekins' – Oracle Technology, DevOps and Kubernetes Blog
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In this blog series I set out to share how to deploy the Oracle Database 23c Free Developer Release on an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) Cluster with Portworx storage. In Part 1 of this series I shared how to create an OKE Kubernetes Cluster. In part 2 I shared how to install and configure Portworx... Continue Reading →
In this 3 part blog series I am going to share how to get started with Oracle Database 23c Free Developer release on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) using Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) and the Portworx Essentials forever free edition. In Part 1 will cover the creation of the OKE Cluster, Part 2... Continue Reading →
In this blog post I am going to share how to install and configure Portworx PX-Backup to perform a backup of an application using the Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) managed Kubernetes service running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Kubernetes Cluster For this post I have built a 3 node Kubernetes v1.25.4 cluster in... Continue Reading →
In this blog I and going to show how to connect to a PostgreSQL database created by Portworx Data Services (PDS) deployed on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE). I previously shared How to deploy a PostgreSQL database on the Oracle Cloud using OKE and Portworx Data Services (PDS) so if... Continue Reading →
With the recent growth in popularity of PostgreSQL, you may have noticed that many of the major Cloud vendors have developed and now offer managed PostgreSQL Database-as-Service (DBaaS) solutions, for example: Azure Database for PostgreSQL Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Amazon Aurora Google Cloud SQL PostgreSQL Google AlloyDB for PostgreSQL IBM Cloud Database for PostgreSQL Additional,... Continue Reading →
In this post I will share how to use the Portworx Container Storage Interface (CSI) with the Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes, more commonly known as Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) to Create, Snapshot, Clone, Resize, Restore and Delete Kubernetes Persistent Volume Claims (PVCs) Create a StorageClass (SC) Let's start by creating a new Portworx Storage... Continue Reading →
In this post I am going to share how to backup Portworx Data Services (PDS) managed Kubernetes databases to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) S3 Object Storage buckets. OCI Object Storage Create OCI Bucket Logon to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and from the Dashboard select Object Storage or via the hamburger menu navigate to Storage -> Object Storage -> Buckets. Select your required Compartment,... Continue Reading →