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How to automatically build any recent version of the Oracle database.

Submitted by fritshoogland on Wed, 2017-09-13 16:38

There are many situations where you want to use a very specific configuration of the Oracle database, for example when a client has an issue and is still on EL5, or gets disk errors on a filesystem that is ext3, or is using ASM and gets weird IO patterns. Other examples are: you want to test the newest PSU to see if responds differently to an issue you are working on, or you want to test a combination of the Oracle database version 11.2.0.3 and grid infrastructure 12.1.0.2.

Of course you can just go and install a virtual machine, install all the different bits and pieces. Doing so manually kills vast amounts of time. By doing that, you will end up with a lot of virtual machines, for which at a certain point in time you have to make a decision to remove some of these.

Automation for DBA - Vagrant part 2

Submitted by pioro on Sun, 2015-09-20 11:54
Hello,

In the last post I presented steps to create Virtual Machine using Vagrant with Virtual Box. It is a native combination but there are other possibilities as well. This post will cover an integration of Vagrant tool with KVM hypervisor and AWS EC2 cloud.

In both cases, an additional plugins has to be installed:
-    vagrant-libvirt plugin for KVM - https://github.com/pradels/vagrant-libvirt
-    vagrant-aws plugin for EC2 - https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant-aws

If there is a requirement to use a Vagrant boxes defined for other hypervisors, there is a plugin called vagrant-mutate, which help you to convert it from one format to another.

Automation for DBA - Vagrant part 2

Submitted by pioro on Sun, 2015-09-20 11:54
Hello,

In the last post I presented steps to create Virtual Machine using Vagrant with Virtual Box. It is a native combination but there are other possibilities as well. This post will cover an integration of Vagrant tool with KVM hypervisor and AWS EC2 cloud.

In both cases, an additional plugins has to be installed:
-    vagrant-libvirt plugin for KVM - https://github.com/pradels/vagrant-libvirt
-    vagrant-aws plugin for EC2 - https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant-aws

If there is a requirement to use a Vagrant boxes defined for other hypervisors, there is a plugin called vagrant-mutate, which help you to convert it from one format to another.

Automation for DBA - Vagrant part 1

Submitted by pioro on Wed, 2015-08-19 18:51
Vagrant is an open source tool for building a virtual environment. It is based on text based configuration file and concept of prebuilt OS boxes.
One can find a lot of boxes on Atlas webpage (https://atlas.hashicorp.com/boxes/search), ready to download and use.  Although if there are any security concerns about using a OS from 3rd party webpage, I published a blog post about creating a new Vagrant box using Oracle Linux here and Oracle Virtual Box.

For simplicity of this series, predefined Linux box will be used in all examples.
There are two boxes that I’m using in my own work.

Automation for DBA - Vagrant part 1

Submitted by pioro on Wed, 2015-08-19 18:51
Vagrant is an open source tool for building a virtual environment. It is based on text based configuration file and concept of prebuilt OS boxes.
One can find a lot of boxes on Atlas webpage (https://atlas.hashicorp.com/boxes/search), ready to download and use.  Although if there are any security concerns about using a OS from 3rd party webpage, I published a blog post about creating a new Vagrant box using Oracle Linux here and Oracle Virtual Box.

For simplicity of this series, predefined Linux box will be used in all examples.
There are two boxes that I’m using in my own work.

Preparing a Oracle Linux for a Vagrant box

Submitted by pioro on Mon, 2015-08-10 18:32
This post is an overview of an installation and configuration process of the Oracle Linux, which will be used as a machine “box” for Vagrant software using a Virtual Box platform.

Post itself is divided into two parts:
  1. Oracle Linux installation (points 1 to 12)
  2. Vagrant box configuration (points 13 to 16)


Part 1 – Oracle Linux installation
 
1. Create a new Virtual Machine - machine name will be used later to create Vagrant box

Preparing a Oracle Linux for a Vagrant box

Submitted by pioro on Mon, 2015-08-10 18:32
This post is an overview of an installation and configuration process of the Oracle Linux, which will be used as a machine “box” for Vagrant software using a Virtual Box platform.

Post itself is divided into two parts:
  1. Oracle Linux installation (points 1 to 12)
  2. Vagrant box configuration (points 13 to 16)


Part 1 – Oracle Linux installation
 
1. Create a new Virtual Machine - machine name will be used later to create Vagrant box

Basic (newbie) install CoreOS on VirtualBox – Getting started with Docker

Submitted by marco on Sat, 2015-04-11 13:18

I got intrigued by this Dutch article mentioning Docker and CoreOS. So on this Saturday,…