1 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…
2 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…
3 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.…
1 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…
0 Application Container Cloud Service (ACCS): Using the Application Cache from a Spring Boot application
Spring Boot allows you to quickly develop microservices. Application Container Cloud Service (ACCS) allows you to easily host Spring Boot…
0 ADF Performance Tuning: Avoid a Long Browser Load Time
It is not always easy to troubleshoot ADF performance problems – it is often complicated. Many parts needs to be…
0 Get going with Project Fn on a remote Kubernetes Cluster from a Windows laptop–using Vagrant, VirtualBox, Docker, Helm and kubectl
The challenge I describe in this article is quite specific. I have a Windows laptop. I have access to a…