OpenWorld 2015: 14 Continuous Delivery / DevOps recommended sessions

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 and configurations and automate deployments will be paramount for the effective and efficient usage of these platforms. Some organizations can afford to reap the benefits of a cloud only strategy. However, the majority is compelled to stay in a hybrid situation or use cloud for DEV/TEST and host their UAD/PROD environment on their own private PaaS.

Tooling for automated provisioning and deployment automation is very helpful and essential for using cloud infrastructure / platforms. Platforms are instantly available and infrastructure has become disposable after usage. Good continuous  delivery practices in  infrastructure / platform provisioning and application deployment realizes an enormous acceleration, consistency across the pipeline, repeatable platform processes, reliable deployments and in the end a shorter time to market for our customers.

There is still long road ahead for us, in the field of automated platform provisioning and application deployment. Oracle Enterprise Manager delivers some of the provisioning requirements and the Oracle Developer Cloud offer some deployment capabilities. At many Oracle users the automation is heavily relying on “Golden Images”,  home brew WLST, Perl, Python  Scripting and a combination of clever usage of generic tools like Puppet, Chef and Ansible. Maturing continuous delivery tools and processes is going to be an important subject for our customers in the upcoming years.

I am looking forward to discover innovative and structured solutions for Continuous Delivery at the upcoming Oracle OpenWorld / JavaOne conference. Below I listed some of the recommended sessions in this field. If you have additional tips, please add them as comments to this article. The ones marked with TIP are extra interesting.

Name	Session  ID	Keywords	Date	Time	Location
DevOps for Mobile in the Cloud	[CON8660]	Build, Deployment, Developer Cloud	Thursday, Oct 29	12:00p.m	Moscone South—304
DevOps in Oracle’s Application PaaS for Java SE and Node Applications	[HOL10448]	NodeJS, Developer Cloud, Provisoning,Deployment	Tuesday, Oct 27	8:45 a.m.	Hotel Nikko—Mendocino I/II (2nd Floor)
Oracle DevOps for Dummies	[UGF3963]	Generic overview	Sunday, Oct 25,	10:00 a.m.	Moscone South—254
Moving from On Premises to Oracle Java Cloud Service: A Cookbook Approach	[CON8643]	Deployment, Migration	Wednesday, Oct 28	1:45 p.m.	Park Central—Metropolitan III
DevOps for Oracle WebLogic Server	[CON8636]	Different approaches to provisioning	Wednesday, Oct 28,	12:15 p.m.	Moscone South—302
Making Secure with Docker	[CON8724]	Docker	Wednesday, Oct 28	11:00 a.m.	Intercontinental—Intercontinental B (5th Floor)
Build and Deploy Portable Applications Using Docker and Oracle Linux	[HOL10328]	Docker	Wednesday, Oct 28	8:45 a.m.	Hotel Nikko—Nikko Ballroom I (3rd Floor)
Running the Oracle SOA Suite Environment in a Docker Container	[CON5065]	Docker	Wednesday, Oct 28	3:00 p.m.	Park Central—Metropolitan I
Java Developer Intro to Environment Management with Vagrant, Puppet, and Docker	[BOF2817]	Provisioning, platform build tools	Wednesday, Oct 28	3:00 p.m.	Park Central—Metropolitan I
Oracle Cloud Platform for Rapid Applications Development and Integration in the Cloud	[CON9863]	Oracle Developer Cloud, Deployment	Tuesday, Oct 27	12:15 p.m.	Moscone South—302
Pirates of DevOps: On Continuous Delivery Tides	[CON7676]	JavaOne, General tips and tricks	Monday, Oct 26	11:00 a.m.	Parc 55—Embarcadero
Being Productive with Maven, Java EE, and the Cloud	[UGF10300]	Maven, Build, Automation, JavaOne	Sunday, Oct 25	11:00 a.m.	Moscone South—310
Scalable Continuous Deployment with Maven	[CON1890]	Maven,	Wednesday, Oct 28	3:00 p.m.	Hilton—Imperial Ballroom A
Supercharge Your DevOps Automation Using Oracle Enterprise Manager’s CLI and REST APIs	[CON9731]	Provisononing CHEF	Thursday, Oct 29	1:15 p.m.	Moscone South—300

If you have additional tips, please add them as comments to this article.