Yesterday, Oracle announced a new range of Arm compute instances based on Ampere’s ARM processors
This is a very nice announcement ![1], [2] and something also very cool is that you are eligible for an Always Free instance up to 4 OCPUs, 24GB of RAM and 4Gbps network bandwidth !!
This is the max you can have and you define it during the shape selection:
I have already updated all the Stacks I propose to …
[Read more]Moodle is the world’s most popular learning management system. Moodle is Open Source and of course it’s compatible with the most popular Open Source Database : MySQL !
I’ve already posted an article on how to install Moodle on OCI before we released MySQL Database Service. In this article we will see how to deploy Moodle very easily in OCI and using MDS.
Once again we will use the easiest way to deploy an complete architecture on OCI: Resource Manager.
We will then use a stack I’ve created that is available on GitHub This stack includes Terraform code allowing to deploy different architectures that we can use for Moodle. I’ve tried to cover the main possible architecture directly in the stack. …
[Read more]Magento is an Open-Source e-commerce platform written in PHP using multiple other PHP frameworks such as Laminas and Symphony. Magento source code is distributed under Open Software License v3.0.
Deploying Magento is not always easy as it often requires registration. However the source code is also availble on GitHub.
Magento supports MySQL 8.0 since version 2.4.0 (July 28th 2020).
In Magento’s documentation, there is a warning about GTID support:
This is not anymore a …
[Read more]The easiest way to deploy Joomla! on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and MySQL Database Service, is to use OCI Resource Manager’s stack.
Let’s see how easy it’s to deploy such solution.
If you don’t have already an OCI account, you can get Free Tier at https://oracle.com/mysql
The easiest way to deploy all the required resources (vcn, subnets, gateways, compute and MySQL instances, security lists, …) is to use a stack for Resource Manager. It consists in Terraform modules and information to easily deploy the architecture on OCI.
To deploy Joomla! and a MDS instance, we go then on this GitHub repo and click on button to deploy on OCI:
The Oracle Cloud Dashboard will be open and the stack creation form will be loaded like …
[Read more]If you have (too) long running select queries it is probably because of lack of relevant indexes, problematic schema that lead to poor queries or inadequate hardware.
That said, sometime even if you doing it right, the query execution time could be too long regarding of what the application or your users expect. It is often true for reporting, real time analytics or BI queries.
At Oracle we have developed Heatwave, that allow you to easily run high performance analytics against your MySQL database.
To be more precise, Heatwave is a massively-scalable integrated analytics engine for MySQL Database Service (MDS), the MySQL DBaaS in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
Some key points of Heatwave:
- Single MySQL database for OLTP & analytics applications
- All existing applications work without any changes
- Extreme performance:
+ 400x faster than MySQL, scales to thousands of cores
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When you migrate to MySQL Database Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (MDS on OCI), the easiest, fastest and recommended way it to use MySQL Dump & Load Utility.
For more information check these different links:
I’ve already provided some solutions to connect to your MDS instance, using MySQL Router, SSH tunnel, … but one of the best way if you have multiple instance to manage, is to use a VPN.
This post summarize the steps on how to deploy Open VPN and configure your VCN to use it.
So, in OCI, we have already some MDS & Compute instances deployed, this is how the dashboard looks like:
OpenVPN Deployment
We can start by deploying our OpenVPN instance using OCI’s Marketplace:
And you follow the wizard by adding your administrator username and password:
An important step is to use the existing VCN and place the OpenVPN in the public subnet:
And you create the instance:
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[Read more]This blog post was first published on FoggyKitchen.com.
Hello fine gourmets, for my first dish in the FoggyKitchen.com, I decide to present you how to deploy WordPress on OCI using MySQL Database Service aka MDS.
I wrote some Terraform recipes that you can find on my GitHub repository: oci-wordpress-mds.
In this first post, I will show how easy it’s to deploy directly from OCI’s dashboard using Resource Manager’s stack. I will also share the recent additions.
The first think to do is to download the stack in releases from GitHub:
When the zip file is downloaded locally, you can login in …
[Read more]If you plan to deploy a Drupal site to OCI using MySQL Database Service, there is a very easy way to perform that deployment: using OCI’s Resource Manager !
As you know, security is something very important for Oracle in OCI, therefor, exposing the database on the Internet is not allowed.
Even if you are not using OCI, I really recommend you to follow that principle and never expose your database to Internet !
I already cover this in many previous posts. But I also understand that for people not being a sysadmin, this can be complicated the first time.
That’s why, all this can be automated using a stack to deploy in Resource Manager.
The first thing to do when you have your OCI account, it’s to download the stack from GitHub: https://github.com/lefred/oci-drupal-mds
Then in OCI’s dashboard, just …
[Read more]Cloud backup is a strategy increasingly used in organizations. Send copies of your data to the cloud, can help you to prevent a devastating IT crisis and ensure business continuity.
Currently, MySQL Enterprise Backup supports the following types of cloud storage services:
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Object Storage
- OpenStack Swift or compatible object storage services
- Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) or compatible storage service
The post Create a Cloud Backup with MySQL Enterprise Backup first appeared on dasini.net - Diary of a MySQL experts.