The purpose of this article is to list and document day-to-day tasks related to Oracle Transparent Data Encryption. I am writing this article in terms of “notes” for myself which you may find helpful. Let’s have a high-level overview of the TDE implementation in the Oracle Database. What is Oracle Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)? Oracle Database uses…

In the early days of the Internet, information between services was shared simply by giving your username and password for one service to another so they could login to your account and grab whatever information they wanted! You should never be required to share your username and password, your credentials…

The Objective The purpose of this post is to test the business continuity of an application that has a database backend, I used an extension of the Sample Go application with a database backend that supports SQLServer as a Database. …

Services bring stability A Kubernetes Service object creates a stable network endpoint that sits in front of a set of Pods and load-balances traffic across them. You always put a Service in front of a set of Pods that do the same job (have the same container images running in them). For example…

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Purpose This post will show the step-by-step approach to using the config connector (also known as Anthos Config connector or Kubernetes Config Connector) to deploy GCP resources. …

The Objective This post is the second in the series to test the business continuity of an application that has a database backend. You will be deploying the sample application on Kubernetes and using SQL Server as a database. Our first test was based on Azure. Our second test is based on…

The Backstory of this blog — That day Oncaller woke up with a pager alert “Unhealthy backend hosts for the Application Gateway”. Our client has Application Gateway as the Ingress controller for the AKS cluster, so the AKS cluster is the backend in this case. That alert literally meant that the AKS application pods were down…

Purpose To document the steps required on a Java App (like SQL Developer) to successfully connect to Oracle Databases which allow only TLS connections to secure Data in Transit. As per NIST Special Publication (SP) 800–52 Rev. 2, Guidelines for the Selection, Configuration, and Use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) Implementations…