You can use a Database Tools identity in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to give Oracle Databases access to OCI resources through something called a "resource principal". There are a few configuration requirements and the use case is interesting in general, so let's check it out!
You take an instance of some type and decorate it with additional responsibilities at runtime. The decorator acts like a proxy for the instance, forwarding or augmenting requests sent to methods along the way.
With Oracle's Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) driver starting with 23ai it is now possible to provide the configuration of a connection to Oracle Database using the opaque identifier of a Database Tools connection.
tl/dr: Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a light-weight protocol that attempts to address a specific problem of how to allow 3rd parties (you, me, or anyone) to provide relevant prompts or context to a large language model (LLM) and to allow AI clients to complete well-defined tasks.
In the past few posts I looked at using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services related to creating database connections in the cloud. Here I want to show how you can build on that by creating secrets in a vault using the OCI provider.
In this post we will look at setting up a Database Tools connection resource in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) using the OCI Terraform provider. Database Tools connections in OCI are first-class resources just like other cloud primitives such as virtual cloud networks (VCN), compute instances, or databases.
TL/DR: To use OCI Database Tools (DBTools) Connections to connect to ADB with a public IP and access control list (ACL), DBTools requires the use of a DBTools Private Endpoint (PE).
TL/DR: if you are an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) customer running Oracle Database or MySQL in OCI, use Database Tools (DBTools) private endpoints and connections to simplify database access in the cloud.
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The past few years have been a period of significant recovery. One in which I have invested in my family and myself. When I started writing "way back when," I figured, "Just write about the stuff you find interesting and see what sticks."