Creating, Building and Invoking a Function on OCI with Terraform
Automation through infrastructure as code is the name of the game. And I am a player in that game. In the last few weeks I have spent a lot …
Category: Provisioning
OpenEBS: cStor storage engine on KVM
OpenEBS provides a Kubernetes native distributed storage solution which is friendly on developers and administrators. It is completely open source and part of the CNCF. Previously I wrote about …
OpenEBS: Create persistent storage in your Charmed Kubernetes cluster quick and easy!
As a developer I wanted to experiment with Kubernetes environments which approximate production deployments. In order to do that I wanted a distributed storage solution and chose OpenEBS. Mainly …
Charmed Kubernetes on KVM using MAAS and Juju
Coming to this solution was a journey. I was looking for a Kubernetes installation which was easy to deploy and cleanup on my own laptop (I didn’t want to …
Very first steps in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
Resources in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure can be managed through the console – the browser based UI. That works great but requires manual steps – no automation – that take …
Set Terraform Resource properties from an element in a list retrieved by a Data Source – using a local value
Terraform is a platform for implementing Infrastructure as Code. Terraform defines a syntax for describing resources and provides an engine that interprets the resources definitions, compares this desired state …
pgAdmin in Docker: Provisioning connections and passwords
pgAdmin is a popular open source and feature rich administration and development platform for PostgreSQL. When provisioning Postgres database environments using containers, it is not unusual to also provision …
6 tips to make your life with Vagrant even better!
HashiCorp Vagrant is a great tool to quickly get up and running with a development environment. In this blog post I’ll give some tips to make your life with …
Getting started with Enterprise Modules’ ora_profile to install Oracle 18c
A couple of moths ago, Enterprise Modules announced the easy to start way of making use their Oracle modules, ora_profile. Recently their modules have been updated to support the …
Quickly create a Virtualbox development VM with XE DB using Kickstart, Packer, Vagrant
The topic of quickly creating an Oracle development VM is not new. Several years ago Edwin Biemond and Lucas Jellema have written several blogs about this and have given …
Node.js run from GitHub in Generic Docker Container backed by Dockerized Redis Cache
In a previous article I talked about a generic Docker Container Image that can be used to run any Node.js application directly from GitHub or some other Git instance …
Event: PuppetConf 2016 Review, 24 November – Nieuwegein
Op donderdag 24 november is het Conclusion PuppetConf 2016 review Event. Jij bent hierbij van harte welkom. Tijdens dit event nemen we je mee in de wereld van Puppet. …
Continuous Delivery Pipeline – Overview, considerations and tools for Oracle Database and Fusion Middleware
It is important to consider the broad range of tools and product for creating your Continuous Delivery Pipeline. From this perspective we share our vision on the Continuous Delivery …
Oracle X5-2, from bare metal to VM Server. Without disks, without dvd drive.
April 23, 2016
AMIS, Platform Technology, Provisioning, Technology, Virtualization and Oracle VM
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Oracle offers a fine machine called the X5-2. Not to be confused with the ODA X5-2, which comes with sophisticated database software. The X5-2 is just bare metal. The …
Create an oracledb enabled Node.js application container
In my previous article, First setup of a connection from Node.js to an Oracle Database, I demonstrated how to make a connection to a remote database using Node.js and …
Linking Application Container Cloud to DBaaS – Expose REST API from node.js application leveraging node-oracle-database driver
In a recent article, I discussed the deployment of a simple Node.js application to the Oracle Application Container Cloud. I take this one step further in this article: I …
Resources for JavaOne 2015 session: Java Developer Intro to Environment Management with Vagrant, Puppet, and Docker (BOF2817)
During JavaOne 2015, I present a Birds of Feather session (BOF 2817) on Docker for Java Developers – in combination with Vagrant and Puppet (and leveraging Virtual Box) (Monday …
OpenWorld 2015: 14 Continuous Delivery / DevOps recommended sessions
October 15, 2015
Announce / Events, Continuous Delivery, Deployment, Provisioning, Technology
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We can assume the upcoming Oracle OpenWorld / JavaOne conference will be packed with Cloud themed sessions. When you’re using IaaS and PaaS the ability to rapidly create environments …
Vagrant and Docker followed by Puppet to provision complex environments
The Docker container build process has some limitations. The Docker file can quickly become unwieldy. Besides, by and large the Docker file has us execution fairly low level instructions …
Vagrant and Docker – Next and Advanced steps with folders, ports, volumes, linking and more
This article is a continuation of the introduction to the combination of Vagrant and Docker that I started here: First steps with provisioning of Docker containers using Vagrant as …
First steps with provisioning of Docker containers using Vagrant as provider
Note: the next set of (more advanced) steps with Vagrant and Docker are discussed in this article: Vagrant and Docker – Next and Advanced steps with folders, ports, volumes, …
Generation of VM image for Oracle Event Processor and Stream Explorer using Vagrant and Puppet
In this article, I will introduce a set of Vagrant and Puppet configuration files that automate the creation of a Linux Virtual Box VM with Oracle Event Processor and …
Oracle StreamExplorer and Oracle Event Processor – installation instructions to quickly get going
This article discusses the installation of Oracle Event Processor 12c on Linux 64bit and the subsequent installation of Stream Explorer on top of OEP 12c. This article assumes Linux …
Quickly produce a Linux 64 bit Ubuntu 14.04 Desktop environment using Vagrant and Puppet – as starting point for Oracle installations
My objective in this article: create generally reusable Linux 64 bit (Ubuntu 14.0.4 with Desktop) Virtual Box Image – based on Vagrant and Puppet as to stamp out multiple …
Subversion revision of a deployed BPM/SOA composite?
So there you are: a production error was reported … in your code (of all places) … but no one knows what release the code came from? Wouldn’t it …
Creating and scaling Dynamic Clusters using wlst
April 10, 2015
Cloud, Oracle WebLogic Server, Platform Technology, Provisioning, Technology
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In my previous article, Creating and scaling Dynamic Clusters in Weblogic 12c, I described the creation and scaling of Dynamic Clusters. I used the Weblogic Console to create the …
Next step with Docker – Create Image for Oracle Database 12c using Puppet
In a previous article – https://technology.amis.nl/2015/03/15/docker-take-two-starting-from-windows-with-linux-vm-as-docker-host/ – I have discussed my first steps with Docker. With Windows as my host environment I used Vagrant to create a VirtualBox VM …
Cloud Control Agent 12c managing many objects
An Oracle Enterprise Management Agent 12c that has to manage hundreds of objects needs extra tweaking. If not, it will not start, or it will die soon, leaving you …
Re-establishing reference from Vagrant to VirtualBox VM
Stress in the middle to demo preparation: Vagrant refused to bring up my suspended VMs. The message is wrote: D:\GitHub\biemond-orawls-vagrant-12.1.3-infra-soa>vagrant resume soa2admin2==> soa2admin2: VM not created. Moving on… After …
Quick generation of a VirtualBox VM with Oracle Database 12.1.0.2 EE on CentOS 5.6
A short time ago, Oracle released Oracle Database 12c – release 12.1.0.2. With a bunch of goodies that I would like to try out. This release can be downloaded …
Getting my hands on a Virtual Machine with Oracle Database 12.1.0.2 Enterprise Edition – 20-30 minutes from start to finish
NOTE: even though the steps described in this article all work – I am running into a problem with shutting down and starting up the VM again. So at …
Rapid creation of Virtual Machine(s) for SOA Suite 12.1.3 server run time environment – leveraging Vagrant, Puppet and Biemond
In recent previous articles I have discussed the use of Vagrant and Puppet for the automated creation of Virtual Machines, for example with various Oracle software components completely installed …
Fastest way to a Virtual Machine with JDeveloper 12.1.3 and Oracle Database XE 11gR2 – on Ubuntu Linux 64 bit
In a previous article I have explained in quite a bit of detail how to create the Vagrant and Puppet scripts for stamping out a Virtual Box VM with …
Creating automated JDeveloper 12.1.3 & Oracle XE 11gR2 environment provisioning – using Vagrant and Puppet
Standing on the shoulders of many smart and persistent friends, peers and colleagues, I was able to fairly quickly concoct the Vagrant and Puppet configuration that allows automated provisioning …
Provisioning an Oracle 11g database VirtualBox VM with Vagrant and Puppet for dummies
Outline This post shows you how to setup an Oracle 11g database VM with the use of Vagrant and Puppet in straightforward steps. Anybody can execute this without knowledge …
new Puppet 3 Weblogic provisioning module
November 24, 2013
Architecture, Cloud, Platform Technology, Provisioning, SOA, Virtualization and Oracle VM
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The last few weeks I was busy re-writing pf my puppet WLS module so it fully supports the power of Puppet 3 (thanks for more than 4000 downloads on puppet …