Ron Ekins' – Oracle Technology, DevOps and Kubernetes Blog
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Over the last few years I have created a number of posts on deploying Oracle on Kubernetes including: Oracle 12c on a Kubernetes ClusterOracle 12c on MinikubeOracle 18xe on a Kubernetes ClusterOracle 19c on a Kubernetes Cluster Oracle 21c with the Oracle Kubernetes Operatorand also how to install Portworx. In this post I will share... Continue Reading →
Today there are a number of different MySQL Kubernetes Operators available for use, many providing similar functionality with varying development effort and support offerings, for example Percona, PressLabs, GrdsCloud, Moco to name a few. In this post I am going to be using the official MySQL Kubernetes Operator developed by the Oracle MySQL team to... Continue Reading →
In this post I will share how you can get started with containerising Oracle databases and how to use a Kubernetes Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver to provision dynamic persistent storage to the container. For this post I will use Oracle 18c Express Edition (XE) the 'Free Database for Everyone' and Portworx Essentials Forever Free... 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 this Blog I am going to show how we can use the Oracle provided Docker build scripts, and Oracle database zip files to create database image files for use with Kubernetes. Please note all the Oracle Docker database build scripts (except Oracle Express Edition) require you to manually download the database zip files from... Continue Reading →
I have recently created a number of blogs posts on running containerised Oracle databases on Kubernetes using the Oracle provided Docker build scripts and the Pure Storage Container Storage Interface (CSI) Driver Pure Service Orchestrator (PSO) to provide persistent storage to my Oracle database containers. In this Blog I am going to show how easy... Continue Reading →
In this Blog I am going to show how the Oracle provided Docker build scripts, and the free to use Oracle 18 XE (Express Edition) database can be used to deliver DBA's, developers, data scientists their own database on Kubernetes. The Oracle 18xe Docker build scripts now automatically 'pulls' the database RPM from OTN for... Continue Reading →
MiniKube Before we start I will increase the default Minikube VM memory size from 2GB to 10GB, this is required to accommodate my Oracle 12c database, I will also set the MiniKube vm driver to use VirtualBox this can be done by changing the Minikube configuration. If you have not already got MiniKube installed you... Continue Reading →
You may have read one of my previous posts Oracle 12c on Docker where I described how you can get hold of official Oracle images from the Docker Store. In this post I will share how you can now use the Oracle Container Registry to obtain Docker images for all licensable Oracle products. To access the Oracle... Continue Reading →
How to get started with the Pure Storage Docker Volume plugin