Last week i read this book:
Before starting with the Oracle Cloud i wanted to read something other than AWS or Microsoft Azure. I was surprised at the completely different target of this cloud in respect to AWS and Azure. It is much more focused on business and business value - which is clearly one core domains of SAP.
This book contains a very well written introduction into cloud services - many other books could take this as an example. Very impressing are the over 120 mainly conceptional pictures - they make it much easier to understand the SAP Cloud Platform.
If you are interested, take a look at my review at amazon.de (like all my reviews: written in german ;-).
Apr 29, 2019
Apr 27, 2019
Oracle Database 19c (19.3) released!
And after nearly 3 months of waiting - Oracle released 19c:
But the Grid Infrastructure is still not delivered as RPM package. :-(
First special feature: The rpm is still there and the release is only done for Linux and Oracle Solaris.
To get to the Linux download page just click here.
But the Grid Infrastructure is still not delivered as RPM package. :-(
Wireguard: An easy way to build VPNs
Last week i came across the following tool:
If you want to build up a VPN you can choose one of the following strategies:
The nice thing with wireguard (from the linux point of view) is, that the wireguard interfaces are handled like all other network interfaces on your device.
If you are really interested in this way, you should read the whitepaper. Here some excerpts:
If you want to build up a VPN you can choose one of the following strategies:
- based on IPSec
- using TLS
The nice thing with wireguard (from the linux point of view) is, that the wireguard interfaces are handled like all other network interfaces on your device.
If you are really interested in this way, you should read the whitepaper. Here some excerpts:
... IPSec ... updating these data structures based on the results of a key exchange, generally done with IKEv2 [13], itself a complicated protocol with much choice and malleability. The complexity, as well as the sheer amount of code, of this solution is considerable. Administrators have a completely separate set of firewalling semantics and secure labeling for IPsec packets.
... based solution that uses TLS. By virtue of it being in user space, it has very poor performance—since packets must be copied multiple times between kernel space and user space—and a long-lived daemon is required; OpenVPN appears far from stateless to an administrator.
A WireGuard interface,wg0, can be added and configured to have a tunnelIP address of10.192.122.3in a/24subnet with the standard ip(8)utilities...
One design goal of WireGuard is to avoid storing any state prior to authentication and to not send any responses to unauthenticated packets. With no state stored for unauthenticated packets, and with no response generated,WireGuard is invisible to illegitimate peers and network scanners. Several classes of attacks are avoided bynot allowing unauthenticated packets to influence any state. And more generally, it is possible to implement WireGuard in a way that requires no dynamic memory allocation at all, even for authenticated packets, as explained in section 7.So next step is to install this VPN solution and see, if the administration is really so easy as promised...
Apr 19, 2019
Oracle VM Server: Working with ovm cli
After getting the ovmcli run, here some commands which are quite helpful, when you are working with Oracle VM server.
But first:
Starting the ovmcli is done via
After that you can get some overviews:
But first:
Starting the ovmcli is done via
at the OVM Manager.ssh admin@localhost -p 10000
After that you can get some overviews:
A complete list of all list commands can be obtained like this:OVM> list server Command: list server Status: Success Time: 2019-01-25 06:56:55,065 EST Data: id:18:e2:a6:9d:5c:b6:48:3a:9b:d2:b0:0f:56:7e:ab:e9 name:oraclevm OVM> list vm Command: list vm Status: Success Time: 2019-01-25 06:56:57,357 EST Data: id:0004fb0000060000fa3b1b883e717582 name:myAlpineLinux OVM> list ServerPool Command: list ServerPool Status: Success Time: 2019-01-25 06:57:12,165 EST Data: id:0004fb0000020000fca85278d951ce27 name:MyServerPool
An overview which kind of command can be used like list:OVM> list ? AccessGroup AntiAffinityGroup Assembly AssemblyVirtualDisk AssemblyVm BondPort ControlDomain Cpu CpuCompatibilityGroup FileServer FileServerPlugin FileSystem Job Manager Network PeriodicTask PhysicalDisk Port Repository RepositoryExport Server ServerController ServerPool ServerPoolNetworkPolicy ServerUpdateGroup ServerUpdateRepository StorageArray StorageArrayPlugin StorageInitiator Tag VirtualAppliance VirtualApplianceVirtualDisk VirtualApplianceVm VirtualCdrom VirtualDisk VlanInterface Vm VmCloneCustomizer VmCloneNetworkMapping VmCloneStorageMapping VmDiskMapping Vnic VolumeGroup
If you want to get you vm.cfg file, you can use the id from "list vm" and type:OVM> help For Most Object Types: create[(attribute1)="value1"] ... [on ] delete edit (attribute1)="value1" ... list show For Most Object Types with Children: add to remove from Client Session Commands: set alphabetizeAttributes=[Yes|No] set commandMode=[Asynchronous|Synchronous] set commandTimeout=[1-43200] set endLineChars=[CRLF,CR,LF] set outputMode=[Verbose,XML,Sparse] showclisession Other Commands: exit showallcustomcmds showcustomcmds showobjtypes showversion
Very helpful is the Oracle documentation (here).OVM> getVmCfgFileContent Vm id=0004fb0000060000fa3b1b883e717582 Command: getVmCfgFileContent Vm id=0004fb0000060000fa3b1b883e717582 Status: Success Time: 2019-01-25 06:59:46,875 EST Data: OVM_domain_type = xen_pvm bootargs = disk = [file:/OVS/Repositories/0004fb0000030000dad74d9c43176d2e/ISOs/0004fb0000150000226a713414eaa501.iso,xvda:cdrom,r,file:/OVS/Repositories/0004fb0000030000dad74d9c43176d2e/VirtualDisks/0004fb0000120000f62a7bba83063840.img,xvdb,w] bootloader = /usr/bin/pygrub vcpus = 1 memory = 512 on_poweroff = destroy OVM_os_type = Other Linux on_crash = restart cpu_weight = 27500 OVM_description = cpu_cap = 0 on_reboot = restart OVM_simple_name = myAlpineLinux name = 0004fb0000060000fa3b1b883e717582 maxvcpus = 1 vfb = [type=vnc,vncunused=1,vnclisten=127.0.0.1,keymap=en-us] uuid = 0004fb00-0006-0000-fa3b-1b883e717582 guest_os_type = linux OVM_cpu_compat_group = OVM_high_availability = false vif = []
Apr 17, 2019
Oracle Database 19c download
In january 2019 Oracle released the documentation for Oracle Database 19c.
More than 7 weeks later there is still nothing at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/:
The gap between release date of the documentation and the on premises software was for 18c not so long...
Will 19c on premises software be released before may? Or later in summer?
More than 7 weeks later there is still nothing at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/:
The gap between release date of the documentation and the on premises software was for 18c not so long...
Will 19c on premises software be released before may? Or later in summer?
Apr 10, 2019
AWS: Accessing S3 buckets from the internet and from ec2 instances (2)
After accessing a S3 bucket from an ec2 instance by adding an IAM role to my EC2 instance, i tried to get the access from an ec2 instance by using a AWS endpoint.
First step: Launch an ec2 instance within your VPC and try to access your S3 bucket:
Second step: change the bucket policy to this:
Goto VPC -> endpoint:
And then choose the following:
(Here you have to select your route table ID!!!)
After that everything works like expected:
First step: Launch an ec2 instance within your VPC and try to access your S3 bucket:
[ec2-user@ip-172-31-30-93 ~]$ wget https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/my.webtest/website.json --2019-02-02 18:29:28-- https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/my.webtest/website.json Auflösen des Hostnamen »s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com (s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com)«... 52.218.16.244 Verbindungsaufbau zu s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com (s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com)|52.218.16.244|:443... verbunden. HTTP-Anforderung gesendet, warte auf Antwort... 403 Forbidden 2019-02-02 18:29:28 FEHLER 403: Forbidden.
Second step: change the bucket policy to this:
The access to the bucket is still forbidden. So next step is to add the endpoint:{ "Version": "2012-10-17", "Id": "Policy1119991119999", "Statement": [ { "Sid": "Access-to-specific-VPC-only", "Effect": "Allow", "Principal": "*", "Action": "*", "Resource": [ "arn:aws:s3:::my.webtest", "arn:aws:s3:::my.webtest/*" ], "Condition": { "StringEquals": { "aws:sourceVpc": "vpc-12e0cc74" } } } ] }
Goto VPC -> endpoint:
And then choose the following:
(Here you have to select your route table ID!!!)
After that everything works like expected:
[ec2-user@ip-172-31-30-93 ~]$ wget https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/my.webtest/website.json --2019-02-02 18:29:51-- https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/my.webtest/website.json Auflösen des Hostnamen »s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com (s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com)«... 52.218.53.66 Verbindungsaufbau zu s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com (s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com)|52.218.53.66|:443... verbunden. HTTP-Anforderung gesendet, warte auf Antwort... 200 OK Länge: 130 [application/json] In »»website.json.1«« speichern. 100%[===============================================================================================================>] 130 --.-K/s in 0s 2019-02-02 18:29:51 (5,28 MB/s) - »»website.json.1«« gespeichert [130/130]
Apr 6, 2019
Oracle VM Server: OVM CLI via ssh admin@localhost -p 10000 does not work
In my Oracle VM server installation the ovmcli refuses to work:
There some workarounds like:ssh -l admin localhost -p 10000 Connection to localhost closed by remote host. Connection to localhost closed.
But the result is the same.ssh -oKexAlgorithms=+diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 -oHostKeyAlgorithms=+ssh-dss -l admin localhost -p 10000
Here a debug output from ssh -v:
[root@oraVMManager mnt]# ssh -l admin localhost -p 10000 -v OpenSSH_7.4p1, OpenSSL 1.0.2k-fips 26 Jan 2017 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 58: Applying options for * debug1: Connecting to localhost [::1] port 10000. debug1: Connection established. debug1: permanently_set_uid: 0/0 debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_rsa type -1 debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1 debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_dsa type -1 debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1 debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_ecdsa type -1 debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_ecdsa-cert type -1 debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_ed25519 type -1 debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_ed25519-cert type -1 debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0 debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_7.4 debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version ${POM.ARTIFACTID}-${POM.VERSION} debug1: no match: ${POM.ARTIFACTID}-${POM.VERSION} debug1: Authenticating to localhost:10000 as 'admin' debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received debug1: kex: algorithm: diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 debug1: kex: host key algorithm: ssh-dss debug1: kex: server->client cipher: aes128-cbc MAC: hmac-sha1 compression: none debug1: kex: client->server cipher: aes128-cbc MAC: hmac-sha1 compression: none debug1: kex: diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 need=20 dh_need=20 debug1: kex: diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 need=20 dh_need=20 debug1: sending SSH2_MSG_KEXDH_INIT debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEXDH_REPLY debug1: Server host key: ssh-dss SHA256:E6FYsSD9om4ChxJT17vBGUyqHmz3kLLAIxxJZlYjJCM debug1: Host '[localhost]:10000' is known and matches the DSA host key. debug1: Found key in /root/.ssh/known_hosts:1 debug1: rekey after 4294967296 blocks debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received debug1: rekey after 4294967296 blocks debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received debug1: Authentications that can continue: password,publickey debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: Offering RSA public key: /root/.ssh/admin debug1: Server accepts key: pkalg ssh-rsa blen 279 debug1: Authentication succeeded (publickey). Authenticated to localhost ([::1]:10000). debug1: channel 0: new [client-session] debug1: Entering interactive session. debug1: pledge: network debug1: Sending environment. debug1: Sending env LANG = de_DE.UTF-8 debug1: channel 0: free: client-session, nchannels 1 Connection to localhost closed by remote host. Connection to localhost closed. Transferred: sent 3224, received 1432 bytes, in 0.0 seconds Bytes per second: sent 2461309.8, received 1093236.9 debug1: Exit status -1
The solution was:
Upgrade the OVM Manager (take a look here)
And then:
Ok - this was not expected, but the upgrade changed the host key.ssh -l admin localhost -p 10000 -v SHA256:pidDB23XNyVHE55Q7GJ+9uqJvBfoR3B1lm02gdYeus8 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY! Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)! It is also possible that a host key has just been changed. The fingerprint for the RSA key sent by the remote host is SHA256:pidDB23XNyVHE55Q7GJ+9uqJvBfoR3B1lm02gdYeus8. Please contact your system administrator. Add correct host key in /root/.ssh/known_hosts to get rid of this message. Offending DSA key in /root/.ssh/known_hosts:1 RSA host key for [localhost]:10000 has changed and you have requested strict checking. Host key verification failed.
But after removing that line from the known_hosts file:
[root@oraVMManager mnt]# ssh -l admin localhost -p 10000 OVM> list server Command: list server Status: Success Time: 2019-01-25 05:52:14,849 EST Data: id:18:e2:a6:9d:5c:b6:48:3a:9b:d2:b0:0f:56:7e:ab:e9 name:oraclevm OVM> ? add create delete edit embeddedcreate embeddeddelete embeddededit exit help list remove set show showallcustomcmds showclisession showcustomcmds showobjtypes showversion
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