When you have many development servers or cloud servers which runs Oracle software and then you know that configuration management of those servers is very important and must be repeatable. When you configure and install all that software by hand, then you also know that the chance is high that those servers are not exactly the same. This can lead to many configuration issues, tons of documentation pages and days for a new environment is released.

With Puppet of puppetlabs you can automate installations and configuration of all these servers and check the status or read the configuration of the servers. Puppet is open source and it works perfectly with VMware or cloud providers like amazon.  There is also Puppet Enterprise which is free up to 10 nodes.

If you want to learn Puppet you can follow this guide and download the puppet test VirtualBox or VMware image.

On github I made a puppet wls module which can retrieve all the Oracle WebLogic software, domains + weblogic artifacts,  running nodemanager + weblogic servers data and displays these values as facts in the Puppet Dashboard.

Second part of the puppet module are scripts to automatically install the following

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