Posts Tagged oci
Oracle Cloud Partner Image creation
Friday, 30 Aug 2024
This post is only relevant to Oracle Cloud partners. If you’re not a partner, you can stop reading now. Oracle’s marketplace is aimed more at companies that want to sell their software on the Oracle C…
Creating OCI Admins from the Terminal
Friday, 3 May 2024
Oracle recently migrated both my OCI tenancies to a new login system, and all 2FA was broken. This made my admin login somewhat more difficult. Assuming you still have your OCI API keys, it’s entirely…
Terraforming a Custom FreeBSD image in OCI
Tuesday, 5 Apr 2022
TBD.…
Using OCI command-line tools to Upload FreeBSD images
Monday, 4 Apr 2022
This post is focused on uploading FreeBSD qcow2 images into Oracle’s OCI infrastructure, and massaging them to be available for general usage. It will be updated periodically, as we move from custom p…
Custom-built FreeBSD Images for OCI
Saturday, 26 Mar 2022
As part of getting FreeBSD running on OCI , we’ll need to teach the FreeBSD Release Engineering process and people how to build them, including our special tweaks and polishing. Assume we have locally…
Booting FreeBSD on Ampere's Awesome Altra CPUs
Friday, 2 Jul 2021
This is a series of posts exploring how we can get FreeBSD to boot up in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure OCI , which is the commercially available source of the 160-core dual socket Altra CPUs from Ampere…
Oracle Cloud Signup
Wednesday, 2 Jun 2021
Without question, the hardest thing about getting FreeBSD running on OCI Oracle Cloud is getting past the initial sign-up process. OCI Oracle has Intel, AMD Epyc, and Ampere Altra systems available, b…