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Terraform vs Bicep vs ARM Templates: Which Infrastructure as Code Tool Should You Choose in 2026?

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Terraform vs Bicep vs ARM Templates: Which Infrastructure as Code Tool Should You Choose in 2026? A practitioner's deep-dive into modern Infrastructure as Code for Azure, OCI, and multi-cloud environments. 📅 July 03, 2026 🏷️Terraform ·BICEP ·ARM  ⏱ 20 min read Article Overview: If you deploy anything to the cloud in 2026, you have almost certainly faced this question: should our infrastructure live in Terraform , Azure Bicep , or classic ARM Templates ? All three get the job done. All three are declarative. And yet the choice you make will shape your hiring, your CI/CD pipelines, your governance model, and how painful your next cloud migration feels. For those of us who work across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Microsoft Azure — a very common combination in enterprises running Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Database, and Azure-hosted application tiers — this decision has an extra dimension that pure-Azure guides usually ignore. This post walks through the three tools f...
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Deploy Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.13 from OCI Marketplace: Step-by-Step Guide

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Deploying Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.13 from OCI Marketplace — Step by Step Guide 📅 July 02, 2026 🏷️ Oracle EBS 12.2  OCI Marketplace  ⏱ 23 min read Article Overview: In this blogpost we will see how we can deploy Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.13 on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) using the official Oracle Marketplace image — end to end. Instead of a multi-day on-premises installation of the full EBS technology stack (Oracle Database, Application Tier, Concurrent Processing, Web Entry Point), the Marketplace image gives you a pre-configured, Oracle-certified EBS environment that can be live in under an hour. We will cover networking, Marketplace subscription, compute and storage sizing, launching the instance, running the Rapid Install Wizard, front-ending EBS with an OCI Load Balancer, and post-deployment verification — with real OCI CLI commands, console screenshots, and health checks at every stage. Prerequisites: System Requirements An OCI tenancy with sufficient serv...
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Microsoft SQL Server Always On Best Practices on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Native

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Microsoft SQL Server Always On Best Practices on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Native 📅 July 01, 2026 🏷️ MS SQL Server  ⏱ 25 min read Article Overview: In this blogpost we will see how we can architect, deploy and configure Microsoft SQL Server Always On Availability Groups (AOAG) on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Native — covering compute, storage, networking, the Windows cluster, the Availability Group itself, backups, monitoring and DR. This is ideal for mission-critical SQL Server workloads being migrated off VMware, Hyper-V or on-prem (e.g. with Bare Metal/VM shapes, Block Volumes, FastConnect, Private DNS). Prerequisites: System Requirements Two or more Windows Server 2022 nodes (Bare Metal or VM.Standard.E5.Flex) SQL Server 2019/2022 Enterprise Edition (required for Always On with readable secondaries) OCI tenancy with a VCN, private subnet, and Block Volume quota for Ultra High Performance volumes FastConnect (or equivalent private connectivity) if a DR replica spa...
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