Terraform on Oracle Cloud: A Primer for DBAs by Sean Scott

When it comes to database infrastructure, it seems there's never enough to go around. Backup and recovery validation, patching, and performance tuning affect systems availability and function, and don't coexist with business processes. Organizations usually prioritize the competitive needs of visible, customer-facing improvements over seemingly less-immediate backend testing. Cloud services change the equation. Cheap, virtually unlimited compute power and storage are there for the taking—with one catch. Who sets it up? Navigating a cloud interface to create hosts, assign disks, and configure networking is tedious and time consuming. Once that's done you still have to install software and prepare the environment. Enter Terraform, an automation tool that streamlines and simplifies infrastructure builds. In this session, database administrators learn the basics to provision a database and supporting infrastructure on Oracle Cloud with Terraform. No prior experience with Terraform or Oracle Cloud is required.