How to Run Custom Linux Images on Oracle Free Tier (roguesecurity.dev)
from starkzarn@infosec.pub to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 19 Nov 03:01
https://infosec.pub/post/37850481

Decided to write up a quick post on a hacky workaround I came up with for custom distros Oracle free tier and thought I’d share. Don’t rely on Oracle, but definitely do leverage as much of their free compute as you can for non-critical workloads!

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sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 19 Nov 03:59 next collapse

I did not realize they had a free tier, thanks!

cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de on 19 Nov 04:19 next collapse

They’ve had it for years. It can be difficult to sign up for though.

You get a lot of resources for free, but don’t use them for anything important. They can nuke your account for any reason.

30p87@feddit.org on 19 Nov 08:14 collapse

mines crypto

BlueEther@no.lastname.nz on 19 Nov 04:41 next collapse

I run my lemmy instance on their free tier, although I do have full account so I can expand for for full backups during upgrade, and also on the pure free tier I couldn’t get all 4 free cores at the closest DC

starkzarn@infosec.pub on 19 Nov 13:16 collapse

Certainly! As others have said, don’t hang anything worth value on it without an out of band backup strategy, they’re famous for unscrupulously deleting things with no warning. Oracle is a miserable company.

Free is free though!

non_burglar@lemmy.world on 19 Nov 14:24 collapse

I haven’t had my instances deleted, but they do some kind of maintenance blip everyday that my monitoring sees as 3 seconds of downtime, so maybe keep that that in mind.

InnerScientist@lemmy.world on 19 Nov 14:06 collapse

Can’t you just kexec and be on your way?