Once you are hosting an application in some environment, doesn’t matter if on-premises or in the cloud, you want to get notified by the application when soemthing happens or you need to take action. As an example let’s assume that may be a GitLab community edition you manage yourself in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. For this purpose there’s an Email Delivery Service which you can use to send mails from your cloud applications. For this to work you have to configure DKIM and SPF records for a DNS domain and configure aproved sender email addresses that may be used by your application. Maybe I’ll cover that in another blog post but that shouldn’t be addressed here now.