Getting started with authentication_oci There is a new means of connecting seamlessly to a MySQL Database Service instance in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. It is a method that does not require passwords, and can utilize the public key found in a OCI user’s account profile, without anyone needing to access that profile directly . It derives its access… Read More »
May
20
2022
Feb
25
2021
MySQL-Shell has had a set of “Util” object functions for almost a year as of this post. It is this added functionality that negates any reason someone would still need to use the old mysqldump client. It (mysqldump) helped the MySQL Community for a long, long time. It also introduced a large amount of garbage and messiness in… Read More »
Mar
23
2020
There are many users of MySQL in Cloud environment regions. It’s ideal that those MySQL instances are implemented with only private-ips in the respective Subnet. No public-ips. For that matter, all cloud infrastructure resources are ideally placed behind networks that provision only private-ips. This limits any front-end attack surface for an application stack. Certainly the up coming MySQL… Read More »
Dec
31
2019
Many things in the MySQL 8.0 Series has evolved. I’ve discussed many of those things in prior blogs such as items like the MySQL-Router w/InnoDB Cluster, plus a Series on Enterprise Backup with InnoDB Cluster Backup & Restore Use Cases. But now its time to update everyone on the evolution of the Yum Repo packaging… Read More »
Dec
31
2019
Many things in the MySQL 8.0 Series has evolved. I’ve discussed many of those things in prior blogs such as items like the MySQL-Router w/InnoDB Cluster, plus a Series on Enterprise Backup with InnoDB Cluster Backup & Restore Use Cases. But now its time to update everyone on the evolution of the Yum Repo packaging in MySQL 8.0.18!… Read More »
Apr
04
2019
In my prior blog post on Terraform, I demonstrated building the dependent infrastructure that MySQL implementations need. Building MySQL isn’t much different, but does identify a need for a Webserver to provide configuration files for Terraform to execute on as was done in my prior MySQL on OCI post, and a Yum Repo Webserver to… Read More »
Apr
04
2019
In my prior blog post on Terraform, I demonstrated building the dependent infrastructure that MySQL implementations need. Building MySQL isn’t much different, but does identify a need for a Webserver to provide configuration files for Terraform to execute on as was done in my prior MySQL on OCI post, and a Yum Repo Webserver to… Read More »
Apr
02
2019
I have written previous blog posts about Oracle Cloud OCI and this series continues. My post titled with Iaas Getting Started was to get us acquainted with important security-focused items like Compartments and network Services like NAT and Internet-Gateways. Then I posted about building MySQL on Compute with Scripting using a mix of OCI Web console navigation… Read More »
Apr
02
2019
I have written previous blog posts about Oracle Cloud OCI and this series continues. My post titled with Iaas Getting Started was to get us acquainted with important security-focused items like Compartments and network Services like NAT and Internet-Gateways. Then I posted about building MySQL on Compute with Scripting using a mix of OCI Web console navigation… Read More »
Jun
08
2017
Recently I posted a blog on my time attending a DevOps event in Toronto. In that blog I had intended to focus on the conference and highlight some of the topics that stood out for me. In this blog though, I wanted to share what others were doing with containers like Docker, and particularly and… Read More »