0 Using Java Management Extensions within Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c
The answer to using Java Management Extensions(JMX) within Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is using Metric Extensions. Metric extensions provide…
0 Oracle API Platform Cloud Service: using the Developer Portal for discovering APIs via the API Catalog and subscribing applications to APIs
At the Oracle Partner PaaS Summer Camps VII 2017 in Lisbon last year, at the end of august, I attended…
8 15 Minutes to get a Kafka Cluster running on Kubernetes – and start producing and consuming from a Node application
For workshop I will present on microservices and communication patterns I need attendees to have their own local Kafka Cluster.…
0 Remote and Programmatic Manipulation of Docker Containers from a Node application using Dockerode
In previous articles, I have talked about using Docker Containers in smart testing strategies by creating a container image that…
0 Quickly spinning up Docker Containers with baseline Oracle Database Setup – for performing automated tests
Here is a procedure for running an Oracle Database, preparing a baseline in objects (tables, stored procedures) and data, creating…
2 How to install the Oracle Integration Cloud on premises connectivity agent (18.1.3)
Recapitulation on how to install the Oracle Integration Cloud on premises connectivity agent Recently (april 2018) I gained access to…
1 Oracle API Platform Cloud Service: using the Management Portal and creating an API (including some policies)
At the Oracle Partner PaaS Summer Camps VII 2017 in Lisbon last year, at the end of august, I attended…
0 A DBA’s first steps in Jenkins
My Customer wanted an automated way to refresh an application database to a known state, to be done by non-technical…
0 First steps with Docker Checkpoint – to create and restore snapshots of running containers
Docker Containers can be stopped and started again. Changes made to the file system in a running container will survive…
0 Regenerate Oracle VM Manager repository database
Some quick notes to regenerate a corrupted Oracle VM manager repository database. How did we discover the corruption? The MySQL…
0 First steps with REST services on ADF Business Components
Recently we had a challenge at a customer for which ADF REST resources on Business Components were the perfect solution.…
0 ORDS: Installation and Configuration
In my job as system administrator/DBA/integrator I was challenged to implement smoketesting using REST calls. Implementing REST in combination with…
2 Upgrade of Oracle Restart/SIHA from 11.2 to 12.2 fails with CRS-2415
We are in the process of upgrading our Oracle Clusters and SIHA/Restart systems to Oracle 12.2.0.1 The upgrade of the…
0 Dbvisit Standby upgrade
Upgrading to Dbvisit Standby 8.0.x Dbvisit provides upgrade documentation which is detailed and in principle correct but only describes the…
0 Getting started with git behind a company proxy
Since a few months I’ve been involved in working with git to save our Infrastructure as Code in GitHub. But…
0 How to fix Dataguard FAL server issues
One of my clients had an issue with their Dataguard setup, after having to move tables and rebuild indexes the…
0 Handle a GitHub Push Event from a Web Hook Trigger in a Node application
My requirement in this case: a push of one or more commits to a GitHub repository need to trigger a…
2 Node & Express application to proxy HTTP requests – simply forwarding the response to the original caller
The requirement is simple: a Node JS application that receives HTTP requests and forwards (some of) them to other hosts…
0 Create a Node JS application for Downloading sources from GitHub
My objective: create a Node application to download sources from a repository on GitHub. I want to use this application…
0 Running Spring Boot in a Docker container on OpenJDK, Oracle JDK, Zulu on Alpine Linux, Oracle Linux, Ubuntu
Spring Boot is great for running inside a Docker container. Spring Boot applications ‘just run’. A Spring Boot application has…