Hybrid Cloud, Home Lab to Oracle OCI

Imagine you wish to run a game engine locally on LAN and benefit from the features of a managed database in the cloud, where the game engine is separated from the game database holding quests, artifacts, loots offering persistency and automated backups. Or imagine an enterprise set-up where the front end UI is hosted on the company network but the expensive GPUs back-end machines are rented from a cloud provider. In this case, the jargon calls the set-up “hybrid cloud“, partially on-prem and partially on the cloud, but here is the deal: a connection between the two locations is necessary before anything else, and that is what this article is about.

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Site to site VPN OCI to on-prem with Cisco 2921

I am trying to setup a S2S connection between Oracle OCI to my home network to try a hybrid on-prem to cloud setup. I follow the model described here: https://www.oracle.com/cloud/networking/site-to-site-vpn/, I’ve got access to the OCI documentation and it actually does mention my router (albeit a different iOs version!)… but still no luck, I can’t make it work. 🙁

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