Recent Posts by Joseph Holsten

When you use Elasticsearch in production, backup and recovery are fundamental to keeping your business running. So after you've built out your Elasticsearch cluster on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform, the very next thing you should do, before tuning index performance or building awesome visualization dashboards, is back up. Elasticsearch supports backing up to a number of storage systems through its standardized snapshot system. As the Elasticsearch documentation...

This post is the third in the four-part series on Autoscaling a load balanced web application. You can find links for the entire series at the end of this post. In Part 1, we set up the scenario of TheSmithStore, a fictional online retailer who needs their web application to respond to variable levels of customer traffic. TheSmithStore has decided to harness the scalability of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to ensure the availability of their web application, even during...

Large enterprises use a wide variety of operating systems. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure supports a variety of operating systems, both new and old, and enables customers to import root volumes from on-premises from multiple sources such as Oracle VM, VMware, KVM, and now VirtualBox. VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprises. This blog post and its related video, Importing VirtualBox Virtual Machines to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, revie...

I've managed Linux user accounts more ways than I can remember, and the best technique I've found is to use a little Windows. Active Directory can manage a handful of computers, users, and groups just as easily as it can manage thousands. And it's easy to set up. Before You Begin You need to have already set up an Active Directory service and launched the instance running Oracle Linux that you want to join to the domain. If you have yet to build your Active Directory service,...

I've managed Linux user accounts more ways than I can remember, and the best technique I've found is to use a little Windows. Active Directory can easily manage a handful of computers, users and groups just as easily as it can manage thousands. And it's easy to set up: Before you begin You'll need to have already set up an Active Directory service <<Link to whitepaper>>, as well as launched the Oracle Linux instance you'd like to join to the domain. On the instance you want to...