Recent Posts by Gaurav Jain

Resource Manager service is announcing two new features that make it easier to create and use Terraform configurations on Oracle Cloud: Terraform template creators who have their templates hosted on GitHub, GitLab, or Object Storage can place a Deploy to Oracle Cloud button on their repositories. You can launch the template in Resource Manager with one click. You can create a Resource Manager stack using the configuration you specify in the Create Compute Instance...

Today, we’re giving you two more reasons to use Ansible to manage your Oracle Cloud resources: Ansible support now extends to all Oracle cloud resources. Oracle Ansible Collection is generally available. Ansible and Ansible Modules Ansible is an Infrastructure-as-code automation tool that provides an easy way to provision and configure your infrastructure resources. Ansible modules are a discrete unit of code made available by providers such as Oracle. You can execute these...

We’re excited to announce the Resource Discovery feature for Resource Manager. You can now use Resource Manager to discover deployed resources in your compartment and export them to Terraform configuration and state files. Last year, we introduced this functionality for Terraform Provider. Now, by using it in Resource Manager, you can even more easily move from a Console- or SDK-managed infrastructure to an infrastructure managed by the Resource Manager. Use Cases and Benefits Th...

We’re pleased to announce the General Availability of the Drift Detection feature in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Resource Manager service. Drift is the difference between the real-world state of your infrastructure and the stack’s last executed configuration. Use Case Infrastructure as code is one of the recommended ways to achieve automation. Resource Manager helps you in that regard by maintaining a snapshot of your infrastructure in the Terraform state files. However,...

IT infrastructure is moving to the cloud. Using an automation tool, such as Terraform, to manage this infrastructure is the norm today, but what if you didn’t start using Terraform from the beginning? This is the reality for many of our customers. To build out their initial infrastructure, customers often use the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console or an SDK. As the infrastructure increases in scale and complexity, it becomes evident that it would be better managed...