I started using it in late 2023, and never paid anything for it, so I definitely should not complain. Two and half years of mostly loyal service, but sometimes less is more, and I am moving on. Background Oracle Cloud offers very generous free tier. You could basically get (if you jump through some hoops to fight for sparse capacity) 8 VCPU/24GB RAM/200GB ARM machine, or consistently 2 VCPUs of X86 with also 200GB storage. ...
I was planning to write about my home infrastructure (I have at least one post in mind already), but as it is fresh in my mind I decided to write about the state of IaC code, or more specifically, testing IaC code (or lack of it). Testing is the foundation of most workflows I have recently spent quite a bit of time setting up Github Actions-based workflows both for my personal and professional projects. Ultimately, that stuff works quite well: ...
Disclaimer: Sorry, still not related to my home network infrastructure, although I have one or two posts I want to write about later.. I have been thinking recently about how to deal with some personal resources I have in the cloud - mainly in Oracle Cloud thanks to their generous free tier. So far I’ve dealt with them manually doing click-ops in their GUI, but I have been trying to up my personal infra game so I started to think about how to make this not manual. ...