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OCI Generative AI Sample Bot

OCI Generative AI Sample Bot

Whether you are taking an Oracle Generative AI workshop or pursuing Oracle Generative AI Professional certification, you can't miss the OCI Generative AI ChatBot sample code. The code is in the GitHub public repository and allows you to build a simple AI-powered web chat using well-known frameworks such

yum hangs on OCI Linux (8.6)

yum hangs on OCI Linux (8.6)

If I run any yum command on a free tier Linux 8 instance on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), the commands hang indefinitely. For example: yum install gcc-c++ yum update There is no choice but to kill the process id for this process: root@dev:/root> yum update ^C^C^

Oracle Support Chat "powered by OCI Generative AI" is garbage

Oracle Support Chat "powered by OCI Generative AI" is garbage

When I log in to the OCI console, the region on the top bar is always defaulting to "US West (Phoenix)". We have no resources in that region. In fact, as shown in the screenshot below, when I click on "Manage region", it is showing US

Unable to add statement to 'Tenant Admin Policy' in OCI

Unable to add statement to 'Tenant Admin Policy' in OCI

I've been with OCI over 10 years, from the early days of their Gen1 cloud. So I've seen a lot in the journey of changes. One area of evolution is within their IdAM. Problem When trying to add a new statement to the default Tenant Admin

OCI Function Deployment Error

OCI Function Deployment Error

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers serverless functions. For OCI, function development requires tools to create and deploy code in accordance. This set of independent tools often results in mysterious errors.

Cloud resources and services no longer showing up on OCI console

Cloud resources and services no longer showing up on OCI console

Our OCI services have been working fine for years. They are used to host a few blog platforms, websites, development environments, and other odd services. A few months ago, none of my administrator accounts could see any service or resource in the OCI console/dashboard. This completely baffled me. The

HTTP 400 Bad Request when calling OCI REST due to "Unable to parse message body"

I was able to successfully use the instructions in a blog post titled Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) REST call walkthrough with curl written by the Oracle A-Team to call an OCI REST service to create an Autonomous Database without using oci-curl. I was able to use the bash script (no

Resolving OCI Management Agent installation error

Problem Getting "Error: Transaction failed" when installing the Oracle Management Agent which is downloaded from the OCI console. These are the steps I performed: 1. Navigate to "Observability & Management", then click on "Management Agent" 2. Click on "Download and Keys" 3.

OCI: Secure Load Balancer

OCI: Secure Load Balancer

It started as a routine wildcard certificate renewal and updating on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. It usually takes about 20 minutes, but not today when the certbot offered me a private key update.

Oracle OCI: It has queues!

Oracle OCI: It has queues!

Oracle OCI and Amazon AWS are similar and different at the same time. Yes, at the very basic, they offer you the same services - cloud infrastructure to run your workload, but AWS always dominated by the broad set of tools, features, and capabilities if you compare them by dozens.

Sensitive data in Terraform

Sensitive data in Terraform

Terraform is probably the best choice to manage your infrastructure as a code. And if we are talking code, let's see how you can keep sensitive information away from your code repository.

Can't find the "oci" executable in Oracle Cloud?

Can't find the "oci" executable in Oracle Cloud?

A few months ago, I attended an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure workshop in Oracle Reston. In one of the hands-on labs, it appears that the oci executable was not found in my compute instance: To remedy this, simply run this command: bash -c "$(curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oracle/