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Prasenjit Sarkar
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Prasenjit Sarkar

Prasenjit Sarkar is a product manager at Oracle for their public cloud, with a focus on cloud strategy, Oracle Ravello, cloud-native applications, and the API platform. His primary focus is driving Oracle's cloud computing business with commercial and public sector customers, helping to shape and deliver a strategy to build broad use of Oracle's Infrastructure as a Service offerings, such as Compute, Storage, and Database as a Service. He is also responsible for developing public/private cloud integration strategies, customers' cloud computing architecture visions, future state architectures, and implementable architecture roadmaps in the context of the public, private, and hybrid cloud computing solutions that Oracle can offer. He has also authored six industry-leading books on virtualization, SDN, and physical compute, among others. He has six successful patents and six more patents pending at the US PTO. He has also authored numerous research articles.
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Understanding the use cases of ORM

Oracle provides a managed service of Terraform called ORM, which manages infrastructure using HashiCorp Terraform. It uses templates to define configurations, and you can reuse those templates as needed. It's a free service and you need to pay only for infrastructure, not for service. ORM is deeply integrated with OCI services, such as identity, security, metering, monitoring, and tagging.

Oracle built this ORM service on unmodified open source software, meaning there is no lock-in and you get simple migrations from or to any private and third-party clouds. Here, you can see a high-level diagram of the ORM stack. This workflow depicts how you can use ORM to deploy a web application to different environments on OCI:

Figure 9.3 – Use case of IaC

Figure 9.3 – Use case of IaC

Here are the benefits of using ORM:

  • As with Terraform, you can use ORM to unlock infrastructure automation capabilities that can help you to standardize your...
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Prasenjit Sarkar is a product manager at Oracle for their public cloud, with a focus on cloud strategy, Oracle Ravello, cloud-native applications, and the API platform. His primary focus is driving Oracle's cloud computing business with commercial and public sector customers, helping to shape and deliver a strategy to build broad use of Oracle's Infrastructure as a Service offerings, such as Compute, Storage, and Database as a Service. He is also responsible for developing public/private cloud integration strategies, customers' cloud computing architecture visions, future state architectures, and implementable architecture roadmaps in the context of the public, private, and hybrid cloud computing solutions that Oracle can offer. He has also authored six industry-leading books on virtualization, SDN, and physical compute, among others. He has six successful patents and six more patents pending at the US PTO. He has also authored numerous research articles.
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