Background
Earlier in the year at the excellent OUgf Finnish Oracle User Group Harmony 17 conference, I performed a Live demo where I refreshed an Oracle 12c database using an Ansible Playbook in just over a minute, 1min 16sec to be more precise.
Once I had completed my presentation Frits Hoogland mentioned that he had recently used and Blogged on Ansible-Sempahore , an Open Source alternative to Ansible Tower which provides a Web UI and API’s for launching Ansible Tasks.
On my return to the UK I read Frits’ Blog – How to install semaphore UI for running Ansible and the installation instructions on the GitHub site, and was soon up and running.
Why this Blog
In this Blog post I am going to share how I used Ansible-Semaphore to launch my Ansible playbook to perform an Oracle 12c database refresh with a single click.
Once I had Semaphore installed, I configure the Inventory, Environment, Key Store and Playbook Repositories and added my Task Templates all through the Semaphore UI, all pretty straight forward, so no need to screenshot it.
A powerful feature of Semaphore is it’s integration with GitHub, this ensures every time a Playbook is run the last version is used as the code is pulled back from the repository.
Running my ‘Oracle Database Clone’ Ansible playbook is as now as simple as clicking ‘run!’ (no Playbook or Environment Overrides are required for this playbook)
At the end of each run semaphore provides a Task Log which is retained and accessible from the dashboard for historic review.
There we have it a One-Click Oracle 12c Database refresh in just under 1 minute 15 seconds.
If you want to see more, check out my YouTube channel to watch a demo of the above.
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