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Quick Guide to Migrate GoDaddy DNS to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Why Migrate DNS 

Most of the hosting solutions are reliable and cost-effective, which helps businesses and individuals to host sites quickly with little to no manual intervention. These services are simple to use and require just basic technical knowledge. However, if you already have a cloud account and host the web services on multiple computes with/without a public load balancer, then it makes sense to migrate the DNS to your cloud account. It is also helpful if you want to control every aspect of hosting, for example using custom web content software, custom security policies, changing DNS records to your custom public IPs,  budget predictions based on the compute resources, traffic, etc.

Now, we detail the steps of how to migrate the DNS domain name from GoDaddy (a popular web hosting provider) to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). 

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Running KVM and VMware VMs in Container Engine for Kubernetes

With the advent of microservices, people commonly ask, "Is it possible to run my legacy virtual machines in Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) or VMware with my microservices on Kubernetes, or do I need to migrate them to containers?" One possible answer to that question is KubeVirt.

The KubeVirt project turns Kubernetes into an orchestration engine for application containers and VM workloads. It addresses the needs of development teams that have adopted or want to adopt Kubernetes but have existing VM-based workloads that they can’t easily put in containers. The technology provides a unified development platform in which developers can build, modify, and deploy applications that reside in both application containers and VMs in a common, shared environment.

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Automating IT Operations With Oracle Functions

Oracle Functions is a fully managed, multi-tenant, highly scalable, functions-as-a-service platform. It's built on enterprise-grade Oracle Cloud Infrastructure components and powered by the open source Fn Project serverless platform. Along with Oracle Events, Oracle Functions can deliver powerful capabilities for infrastructure and application automation. Together, they enable services to act automatically based on state changes in infrastructure resources, a common use case for enterprise IT environments.

This post walks through an example of a function that verifies whether a compute instance is tagged correctly when it's provisioned. If the instance isn't tagged properly, the function acts to stop the instance. This practice is common in infrastructure automation; it allows resources to be audited for compliance with internal governance policies as they are created, rather than after.