Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

Once you have provisioned an Oracle API Platform CS instance, one of the first things you will notice is the access to the various consoles are done via Public IP addresses: Another issue you will come across is that the certificate used for the instance is “Not Secure”, and therefore HTTPS is disabled due to an invalid certificate: The focus of this blog is to walk through the details of how to customize your APIPCS environment for your business, which includes defining a...

Docker Containers can be stopped and started again. Changes made to the file system in a running container will survive this deliberate stop and start cycle. Data in memory and running processes obviously do not. A container that crashes cannot just be restarted and will have a file system in an undetermined state if it can be restarted. When you start a container after it was stopped, it will go through its full startup routine. If heavy duty processes needs to be started –...

Do you know that Oracle has Oracle Blockchain cloud platform service? Oracle Blockchain is a comprehensive distributed ledger cloud platform to provision blockchain networks, join other organizations, and deploy & run smart contracts to update and query the ledger. Reliably share data and conduct trusted transactions with suppliers, banks, and other trade partners through integration with existing or new cloud-based or on-premises applications. Schedule: Tuesday, January 22,...

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Oracle and HashiCorp are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Oracle Cloud Platform Terraform provider. Oracle Cloud Platform Terraform Provider The initial release of the Oracle Cloud Platform Terraform provider supports the creation and lifecycle management of Oracle Database Cloud Service and Oracle Java Cloud Service instances. With the availability of the Oracle Cloud Platform services support, Terraform’s “infrastructure-as-code” configurations can now be...

  We recently released API Platform Cloud service 18.1.5 and with that we are introducing phase 1 of plans!  To be fully transparent, we've had plans built into the service from day 1, but this marks a step in making the feature available. What are plans you may ask? Plans provide the measured access to one or more APIs serving as the foundation for monetization. Plans define limits at the subscriber level that stretches across APIs. To explain this further, let's use the example...

For  workshop I will present on microservices and communication patterns I need attendees to have their own local Kafka Cluster. I have found a way to have them up and running in virtually no time at all. Thanks to the combination of: Kubernetes Minikube The Yolean/kubernetes-kafka GitHub Repo with Kubernetes yaml files that creates all we need (including Kafka Manager) Prerequisites: Minikube and Kubectl are installed The Minikube cluster is running (minikube start) In my case the...

Implementing Oracle API Platform Cloud Service moves from theory to practice using the newest Oracle API management platform. This critical new platform for Oracle developers allows you to interface the complex array of services your clients expect in the modern world. First, you'll learn about Oracle’s new platform and get an overview of it, then you'll see a use case showing the functionality and use of this new platform for Oracle customers. Next, you’ll see the power of...

  Open serverless project Fn adds support for broader serverless standardization with CNCF CloudEvents, serverless framework support, and OpenCensus for tracing and metrics. Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes tackles toughest real-world governance, scale, and management challenges facing K8s users today Today at Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2018, Oracle announced new support for several open serverless standards on its open Fn Project and a set of critical new Oracle...