Recent Posts by Sergio Leunissen

This week we made Arm-based servers available in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, including a generous free offering with 4 cores and 24 GB of RAM of Ampere A1 Compute as part of our Always Free tier. Todd Sharp wrote a cool blog post showing how to create your own Minecraft Server using one of these Free Tier A1 shapes. Connecting to an Oracle Autonomous Database from an A1 shape two ways: SQLcl and Python In this blog post I’ll demonstrate how to connect from an A1 shape...

Introduction In this blog post I’ll show how to use rclone on Oracle Linux with free object storage services included in Oracle Cloud Free Tier. Free tier includes 20GiB of object storage. Rclone is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from various cloud-based storage services. Oracle Cloud Object Storage is Amazon S3 compatible, so I’ll use Rclone’s S3 capabilities to move data between my local Oracle Linux system and object storage. One way to configure...

Introduction We recently made some changes in the way we publish Oracle Linux Vagrant Boxes. First, we added boxes for the libvirt provider, for use with KVM. Secondly, we added Vagrant catalog data in JSON format. Vagrant Box Catalog Data With the catalog data in place, instead of launching vagrant environments using a URL to a box file, you launch it by pointing to a JSON file. For example: $ vagrant init oraclelinux/7...

Updated to incorporate new download options and changes in Software Delivery Cloud This post summarizes options to download Oracle Linux installation media Introduction There are several types of downloads: Full ISO image: contains everything needed to boot a system and install Oracle Linux. This is the most common download. UEK Boot ISO image: contains everything that is required to boot a system with Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK) and start an installation Boot ISO image:...

Note: This post was updated to include the latest available release of PHP as well as simplified installation intstructions for Oracle Instant Client introduced starting with 19c.   We recently added PHP 7.4 to our repos on Oracle Linux yum server. These repos include also include the PHP OCI8 extenstion to connect your PHP applications to Oracle database. In this post I describe the steps to install PHP 7.4, PHP OCI8 and Oracle Instant Client on Oracle Linux to connect PHP to...

Introduction Last year, I covered features in Linux kernel 5.0 that we thought were worth highlighting. Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 6 is based on stable kernel 5.4 and was recently made available as a developer preview. So, now is as good a time as any to review developments that have occurred since 5.0. While the features below are roughly in chronological order, there is no significance to the order otherwise. BPF spinlock patches BPF (Berkeley Packet Filter) spinlock...

Oracle Java Support and Updates Included in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure   Note: this post was updated to reflect updated Oracle Java versions   We recently announced that Oracle Java, Oracle’s widely adopted and proven Java Development Kit, is now included with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure subscriptions at no extra cost. In this blog post I show how to install Oracle Java on Oracle Linux running in an OCI compute shape by using RPMs available from the OCI yum service. Installin...

In a previous blog post, I described how to quickly create an Autonomous Database and connect to it via SQLcl. By using the the most recent Cloud Developer Image —which includes SQLcl- I was able to save a time installing and configuring. Cloud Developer Image also comes with Oracle SQL Developer pre-installed. In this post I describe how to run SQL Developer and connect it to Autonomous Database. Steps Launch Cloud Developer Image Set up OCI cli Create Autonomous Transaction...

In this blog post, I describe how to use a free trial for Oracle Cloud and the recently released, Oracle Linux-based Cloud Developer Image to provision an Autonomous Transaction Processing Database and connect to it via SQLcl, all in a matter of minutes. Think of the Cloud Developer Image as a Swiss army knife for Cloud developers. It has a ton of tools pre-installed, including: Languages and Oracle Database Connectors Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) 8, 11 and 12 Python...