For the upgrade of Oracle VM Server 3.1.1 to version 3.4.3 we decided to create a new repository and mount this repository to the current Oracle VM environment. After cloning the virtual machines to the new repository we reclaim the repository and can start the virtual machines on the new […]
Platform Technology
Hard Partitioning with Oracle VM Server
Some quick notes to “pin” (or hard partition) a virtual machine to a specific core. Download OVM utils which is found in patch 13602094 (Oracle Support): ORACLE VM 3.0 UTILS RELEASES: 1.0.2, 2.0.1, 2.1.0. When you extract the zip file you will find three zip files for the different Oracle […]
Getting started with Oracle Database in a Docker container!
One of the benefits of using Docker is quick and easy provisioning. I wanted to find out first-hand if this could help me get an Oracle Enterprise Edition database quickly up and running for use in a development environment. Oracle provides Docker images for its Standard and Enterprise Edition database […]
Run Oracle Database in Docker using prebaked image from Oracle Container Registry–a two minute guide
This article will show how to run an Oracle Database on a Docker host using the prebaked images on Oracle Continer Registry. It is my expectation that it takes me very little manual effort to run the full 12.2.0.1 Oracle Enterprise Database – just pull and run the Docker image. […]
Quick introduction to Oracle Container Registry–running one of Oracle’s prebaked images
Oracle has been active with Docker for quite some time now. From the first hesitant steps from some enthusiastic employees with Docker build files that helped people to get going with Oracle software in their experimental containers to a GitHub repo with a broad set of extensive Docker build files […]
First steps with Istio on Kubernetes on Minikube on Windows 10
In this article, I discuss my steps to get going with Istio [service mesh] on Kubernetes running on Minikube on Windows 10. Unfortunately, I have ran into an issue with Istio. This article describes the steps leading up to the issue. I will continue with the article once the issue […]
Installing Minikube and Kubernetes on Windows 10
Quick notes on the installaton of Minikube for trying out Kubernetes on my Windows 10 laptop (using VirtualBox –not Hyper-V) Following instructions in https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SS5PWC/minikube.html Download Windows installer for MiniKube: https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/releases Run installer After running the installer, open a command line window Download kubectl.exe curl -o kubectl.exe https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/v1.8.0/bin/windows/amd64/kubectl.exe Copy downloaded file […]
Create Debian VM with Docker Host using Vagrant–automatically include Guest Additions
A short and simple article. I needed a Debian VM that I could use as Docker host – to run on my Windows 10 laptop. I resorted to Vagrant. With a few very simple steps, I got what I wanted: 0. install Vagrant (if not already done) 0. install Vagrant […]
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 presentations about the topics at various conferences. You can also download ready made Virtualbox images from Oracle here and specifically for […]
Oracle Open World; day 4 – almost done
Almost done. It’s not expected that tomorrow, thursday, will be a day full of new stuff, exciting news. Today, wednesday was a mix for me between ‘normal’ content like sessions about migrating to Oracle Enterprise 13.2 (another packed room) and a very interesting session about the Autonomous Database. Just a […]
Oracle Open World; day 3- some highlights
Day 3 began with a very smooth and interesting keynote of Thomas Kurian, full of flawless, wonderful demo’s . The second keynote, of Larry Ellison happened in the afternoon, I couldn’t attent for as I head a product management meeting. But some hickups I heard. Beside the keynotes it was […]
Oracle Open World; day 2 – highlights
At Monday Oracle Open World really starts. A whole lot of general sessions with announcements and strategic directions on product / service level. In this post I’ll try to summarize the highlights of this day. Quite hard, there are a whole lot of interesting sessions which overlap. Always the […]
Oracle Open World 2017; day 1 observations
Just a quick note about day 1 at Oracle Open World. This Sunday traditionally is filled with presentations of usergroups, customers and product management, and at the end of the day the welcome-keynote. In the presentations there’s not really exciting news, they will have to wait until the keynotes. But […]
The day before OOW17; infra expectations
Oracle Open World 2017 is starting tomorrow, and as a platinum partner of Oracle, we – AMIS Services – are obliged to keep us and our customers informed with the roadmap of Oracle products. And of course translate this to added business-value for our customers. In short: what to pick […]
Oracle SOA Suite and WebLogic: Overview of key and keystore configuration
Keystores and the keys within can be used for security on the transport layer and application layer in Oracle SOA Suite and WebLogic Server. Keystores hold private keys (identity) but also public certificates (trust). This is important when WebLogic / SOA Suite acts as the server but also when it […]
Oracle Mobile Cloud Service (MCS): Overview of integration options
Oracle Mobile Cloud Service has a lot of options which allows it to integrate with other services and systems. Since it runs JavaScript on Node.js for custom APIs, it is very flexible. Some features allow it to extent its own functionality such as the Firebase configuration option to send notifications […]
Oracle Compute Cloud – Uploading My Image – Part Two – Linux 7
In this sequel of part one I will show how you can upload your own (Oracle) Linux 7 image in the IAAS Cloud of Oracle. This post will use the lessons learnt by using AWS which I described here. The tools used are: VirtualBox, Oracle Linux 7, Oracle IAAS Documentation […]
Two way ssl
How it works in a simple view Several implementations are done with 2 way ssl certificates, but still wondering how it works? Let’s try to explain. Two-way ssl means that a client and a server communicates on a verified connection with each other. The verifying is done by certificates to […]
Virtualization on Windows 10 with Virtual Box, Hyper-V and Docker Containers
Recently I started working on a brand new HP ZBook 15-G3 with Windows 10 Pro. And I immediately tried to return to the state I had my previous Windows 7 laptop in: Oracle Virtual Box for running most software in virtual machines, using Docker Machine (and Kubernetes) for running some […]
AWS – Build your own Oracle Linux 7 AMI in the Cloud
I always like to know what is installed in the servers that I need to use for databases or Weblogic installs. Whether it is in the Oracle Cloud or in any other Cloud. One way to know is to build your own image that will be used to start your […]
Create a 12c physical standby database on ODA X5-2
ODA X5-2 simplifies and speeds up the creation of a 12c database quite considerably with oakcli. You can take advantage of this command by also using it in the creation of physical standby databases as I discovered when I had to setup Dataguard on as many as 5 production and […]
Virtualization on the Oracle Database Appliance S, M, L
One of the great advantages of the Oracle database Appliance HA is the possibility of Virtualization through OracleVM. This virtualization wasn’t possible for the other members of the Oracle Database Appliance. Until now. In the patch 12.1.2.11.0 which has been released recently for the ODA S,M and L, virtualization is […]
Configuring Oracle Traffic Director 12c with WebGate
At a recent customer install, I was faced with configuring Oracle Traffic Director (OTD) 12.2.1.2.0 Webgate with Oracle Access Manager. Deploying Webgate on OD 12c is very well described in the documentation. See A Configuring OAM Agent (WebGate) for Oracle Traffic Director 12.2.1.2 There is however a flaw in the […]
Docker, WebLogic Image on Amazon EC2 Container Service
This blog series shows how to get started with WebLogic and Docker – in 3 different Clouds: Docker and the Oracle Images Create and run a WebLogic Docker Image on a local machine and upload the WebLogic Docker Image into the Docker Hub registry WebLogic Docker Container on Oracle Container […]
Docker, WebLogic Image on Microsoft Azure Container Service
This blog series shows how to get started with WebLogic and Docker – in 3 different Clouds: Docker and the Oracle Images Create and run a WebLogic Docker Image on a local machine and upload the WebLogic Docker Image into the Docker Hub registry WebLogic Docker Container on Oracle Container […]
Docker, WebLogic Image on Oracle Container Cloud Service
This blog series shows how to get started with WebLogic and Docker – in 3 different Clouds: Docker and the Oracle Images Create and run a WebLogic Docker Image on a local machine and upload the WebLogic Docker Image into the Docker Hub registry WebLogic Docker Container on Oracle Container […]
Docker, WebLogic Images on Local Linux
This blog series shows how to get started with WebLogic and Docker – in 3 different Clouds: Docker and the Oracle Images Create and run a WebLogic Docker Image on a local machine and upload the WebLogic Docker Image into the Docker Hub registry WebLogic Docker Container on Oracle Container […]
Docker, Oracle Images and Cloud
Overview Oracle is embracing Docker – just like many other companies – as the de-facto standard in Container technologies. It has resulted in the certification of various Oracle products for running in Docker containers and even Oracle supported Docker images are available. Furthermore, Oracle offers 2 Cloud Service around containers: […]
Running Node.js applications from GitHub in generic Docker Container
This article shows how I create a generic Docker Container Image to run any Node.JS application based on sources for that application on GitHub. The usage of this image is shown in this picture: Any Node.JS application in any public GitHub repo can be run using this Docker Container […]
Fastest creation of a Lean VirtualBox VM Image with Oracle Database 11gR2 XE, the Node.JS 7.x and the Oracle DB Driver for Node
For a workshop on Node.js I needed a VM to demonstrate and students try out the Oracle DB Driver for Node. I wanted a lean VM with the bare minimum: Oracle Database XE, Node, the Oracle DB Driver for Node and the Git client (for fetching sources from GitHub). I […]
TCO cloud calculator Oracle and AWS
One of the main reasons to move to the cloud is the promise of a decreasing Total Cost of Ownership. But the calculation of the TCO (IaaS) is not always easy to do. Luckily some cloud-providers provide also the so-called TCO-calculators for comparising the TCO of your IT on-premise with […]
Oracle SOA Suite: Two-way SSL with TLS1.2 made easy (slightly less complicated)
Transport layer security (TLS) is not an easy topic. Many blogs have been written about this already. Surprisingly though, I did not find a single blog which was more or less complete and provided me with everything I needed to know to get this working on SOA Suite 12.2.1. In […]
Consequences of stopping Oracle support
When buying licenses for Oracle, the first year support is mostly part of the deal. After that, a Customer may decide to stop paying for the yearly technical support of the Oracle licenses. The consequences of that decision is not always clear to customers. Most OLSA’s will contain the sentence […]
Net usable storage when using Oracle Database Appliance
Since the birth of the ODA X6-2 HA, the net usable storage has become more of a challenge when advising a customer as the X5-2 HA had substantial more – but slower – storage. This very short blogpost is just a quick summary / checklist of the net usable storage, […]
Oracle Mobile Cloud Service (MCS): An introduction to API security: Basic Authentication and OAuth2
As an integration/backend developer, when starting a project using Mobile Cloud Service, it is important to have some understanding of what this MBaaS (Mobile Backend as a Service) has to offer in terms of security features. This is important in order to be able to configure and test MCS. In […]
Oracle Service Bus : Service Exploring via WebLogic Server MBeans with JMX
At a public sector organization in the Netherlands there was the need to make an inventory of the deployed OSB services in order to find out, the dependencies with certain external web services (which were on a list to become deprecated). For this, in particular the endpoints of business services […]
Oracle Service Bus : disable / enable a proxy service via WebLogic Server MBeans with JMX
At a public sector organization in the Netherlands an OSB proxy service was (via JMS) reading messages from a WebLogic queue. These messages where then send to a back-end system. Every evening during a certain time period the back-end system was down. So therefor and also in case of planned […]
Public Cloud consequences with an Oracle environment
The title suggests a negative statement of using a Public Cloud. Well, it isn’t. I’m convinced the Cloud is the next BIG thing, with huge advantages for businesses. But companies should be aware of what they choose. A lot of providers, including Oracle, are pushing us to the cloud, Public, […]
Connecting Oracle Management Cloud with Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c
Let’s clear about this: Oracle Management Cloud (OMC) is NOT a replacement of Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control (OEM CC) or even an equivalant. Rumours are that this will be Oracle’s policy in a far away future, but in the meantime we focus on what they do best. OEM CC […]
Oracle Service Bus: Pipeline alerts in Splunk using SNMP traps
Oracle Service Bus provides a reporting activity called Alert. The OSB pipeline alerts use a persistent store. This store is file based. Changing the persistent store to JDBC based, does not cause pipeline alerts to be stored in a database instead of on disk. When the persistent store on disk […]