Various thoughts on Oracle, Enterprise Architecture, Cloud Computing, Kubernetes and everything Storage
Background If you have followed Part 1 and Part 2 you should have a already downloaded the Oracle 19.3 Docker image from the Oracle Container Registry and have tried it out in your environment. In this post I will be using Minikube and VirtualBox to run an Oracle 19c database within Kubernetes environment. Kubernetes -... Continue Reading →
Oracle 19c Docker Image In Part 1 of this Blog series I showed how you can obtain the official Oracle 19.3 Docker image from the Oracle Container Registry, if you missed the you can read more about getting the Oracle 19c image here. You can still use the Oracle provided Docker build scripts to roll... Continue Reading →
Backgroud If you are a frequent visitor to my Blog site you may have already read one of the many Oracle on Docker / Kubernetes posts which I have written over the last few years. I have posts showing how you can deploy different versions of the Oracle database on Docker and Kubernetes clusters, with... Continue Reading →
In this Blog I am going to show how we can use the Pure Service Orchestrator (PSO) Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver to deliver Persistent Storage to a 3 node Oracle Linux Cloud Native Environment (OLCNE) Kubernetes Cluster. For this Blog I will be using Vagrant and VirtualBox, if you have not already got Vagrant... Continue Reading →
Background One of the most exciting announcements at last years Oracle Open World #OOW19 was around multi-tenancy and the changes to Oracle licensing allowing non multi-tenant users to have up to 3 user-created PDB's in a container database at any time for free. With the above, and the announcement of de-support of non-CDB architecture from... Continue Reading →
Oracle KFED The kfed like kfod, is one of those Oracle utilities that you may never need to use but it's great to know it's there if your ASM metadata becomes corrupt or just interested in the metadata structure. If you have never used it and want to give it a try, you can find... Continue Reading →
Oracle KFOD The kfod is another one of those great little, hidden Oracle utilities which can be useful in troubleshooting ASM issues without connecting to an ASM instance. If you have never used it and want to give it a try, you can find it in $GRID_HOME/bin/kfod KDOF help Use kfod -help to list all... Continue Reading →
One of the Purity 6.0 features I have most eagerly been awaiting is the ability to tag Pure volumes and snapshots. Volume tagging provides a great way of providing additional database and application metadata to FlashArray Volumes to provide application and database aware reporting. In this Blog post I am going to demonstrate how we... Continue Reading →
In this Blog I am going to show how we can quickly get an Oracle 18c Express Edition (XE) database up and running on Kubernetes for testing purposes on a laptop. This blog post covers: Configuring Minikube for KubernetesBuilding the Oracle 18c XE Docker imageRunning Oracle 18x XE in KubernetesThe Kubernetes DashboardConnecting from a laptopKubernetes... Continue Reading →
In a previously blog I shared how you could get the Pure Storage FlashArray Plug-in for Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control from the Oracle Extensibility Exchange, you can read-up on this here. As Pure have recently upgraded the Plug-in to 13.3.1 I thought it would be a good time to re-visit Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud... Continue Reading →
