Setup time based Auto Scaling for OCI in under 5 minutes!

[@webgeestpaul]

Note that the Create Policy screen now looks a bit different. Click Customize (Advanced) to enter your policy.

[@sankarachari]

If I will create instance in 'ap-Mumbai-1' region tenancy, which time I need to schedule on ? UTC or UTC+5:30 ?

[@onlinesaidasa9105]

Namaste There are two types of scaling a) Vertical Scaling : This involves adding cores/memory etc. to the same VM (Called Scale Up) or removing cores/memory etc.( Called Scale In) It requires downtime b) Horizontal scaling : Auto scaling is applicable here and we can either add additional VM's (Scale Out) or reduce VM's (Scale In) There is no downtime involved.

[@harishkumar432]

Hi, Please suggest how to set up the environment for API Authentication?

[@anonimniqt]

There is no compatible shape for Oracle Autonomous Linux! I need this script, because I run ghost blog on one of my instances, but everyday when I wake up and try to open the blog ghost service is down and instance is unaccesible from ssh and I need to reboot it to work again. Because Im not sure what cause this issue, I want to make automation to stop the instance from 1 hour during night and then start it again.

[@sankarachari]

Hi this is amazing..! Can you please make a video of connecting OCI with python ? to run shell scripts stored in an instance. I want to call example.sh file stored in an OCI with python. I know we can use os and sys library. but don't know how to connect python to OCI and reaching to the location where the example.sh files is stored.

[@antoniolabayen8288]

I tried this, but there are many prerequisites to setting up the host for the CLI and API. Where would this be explained?

[@LeoAsres]

There is support for another respurces across regions ?

[@LeoAsres]

And there is a cron expression generator for the tags for tests ?

[@LeoAsres]

It can be configured for CludShell ?

[@sankarachari]

After watching this video 5 times I observed that instance is created in compartment (Autoscale) but the policy created on root compartment. Why so? Any reason for that?

[@BMAPS]

because of CreatingNamespace script its done that way, I have tried to create policy for specific compartment but when I executed CreatingNamespace schedule py file it doesn't work properly. So one needs python knowledge to tackle that issue.

[@dbsql6238]

I am screwed. I installed something from OCI on scaling CPUs on my Exadata on both nodes from Doc ID 2719916.1.. This looks similar to it. Don't understand this setup at all. The tool prompts of things like my userid, fingerprint?, etc. 5 minutes seems like 5 months.

[@oraclecloudblog]

where from are you trying to run this script? an normal OCI Compute instance?

[@dbsql6238]

@@oraclecloudblog Exadata. Installed in both nodes. Should I run it on a separate machine?

[@oraclecloudblog]

@@dbsql6238Not sure if you can use Instance Principle (Dynamic groups) with the Exa Nodes. So you need to configure the OCI CLI to use API keys for authentication.

[@dbsql6238]

@@oraclecloudblog thanks, I’ll try that.

[@Arupchakraborty2004]

why not using autoscaling feature in OCI

[@MakerDad]

you can, but only works with compute instance pools and only scales in and out. This script supports many services and can scale up down compute

[@sankarachari]

Hi, will it work for DB server and application server under VM?

[@diegoalonsoramirezleon6551]

Hi! I would like to apply this solution for my database instance and I have a doubt about that. Does the tags can be applied to the database system or to the database node? My database is in a virtual machine.

[@VincentChu-o9b]

does it work cross regions also ?

[@MakerDad]

yes

[@sankarachari]

Sorry Richard sir, this Auto Scaling not working.

[@sankarachari]

I am getting error "Authorization failed or requested resource not found". Could you please explain why do such error occurs? Thank you.

[@MakerDad]

did you setup your environment for API Authentication?

[@sankarachari]

@@MakerDad I just followed as instructed in the video. Not more than that.

[@sankarachari]

@@MakerDad how to setup environment for API Authentication?

[@sankarachari]

is there any documentation I can follow?

[@sankarachari]

@@MakerDad Thank you. Now its resolved.

[@brianbennett1028]

Does this still work?

[@oraclecloudblog]

Yes

[@josnijhoff4322]

Why allow the Dynamic Group to manage all-resources? Can't this be limited to e.g. just compute instances?

[@oraclecloudblog]

Yes, if you just want to do scaling for compute, then that policy will be fine. But the auto scaling script also supports other resources like instance pools, database, autonomous database, integration cloud, analytics cloud and digital assistant.

[@TravelChroniclesHD]

Will this work from oci console instance ?

[@oraclecloudblog]

You could run the script from the oci console, but you would not be able to schedule it there, as that instance is powered off when not being used. You can better just a free-tier instance.

[@guillaumeneveux3445]

Works really great !

[@kasunmagedaragama8762]

Worth a lot! thanks a lot! Awesome!

[@gustavoeclis]

Thanky you so much!

[@allisonlane6778]

I am getting the error: oci.exceptions.ServiceError: {'opc-request-id': '922345.....A2A135', 'code': 'NotAuthorizedOrNotFound', 'message': 'Authorization failed or requested resource not found', 'status': 404} when I run the command python3 CreateNameSpaces.py. Please advise.

[@oraclecloudblog]

Can you see if you can manually create the namespace in your tenancy?