Ron Ekins' – Oracle Technology, DevOps and Kubernetes Blog
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In this short post I will share how to run the latest Oracle AI Database 26ai (23.26.0.3.0) ARM container image on a MacBook with Podman. In this Blog post I will walkthrough the following steps: Configure Podman Download the Oracle AI Database 26ai Free image Create Podman data volume Create Podman secret Start Oracle AI... Continue Reading →
Background Ansible AWX provides an open-source, web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. It is one of the upstream projects for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. I have been using Ansible AWX for many years, I actually have an 8 year-old video showcasing how Ansible AWX can be used to run... Continue Reading →
Introduction I recently had the pleasure of delivering a presentation at Kscope25 by ODTUG in Dallas, demonstrating an Oracle Database 23ai running on Kubernetes using Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) all driven from my MacBook. After my session I was asked 'Is it was possible to run Oracle Database 23ai on Kubernetes on a... Continue Reading →
I recently had the pleasure of delivering a presentation on Kubernetes and the Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) to the All India Oracle User Group (AIOUG). A question which was raised by an attendee was 'Can I learn Kubernetes without using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) OKE or other Cloud service?' Well the answer is yes,... Continue Reading →
In this short post I will share how to run the latest Oracle 23ai (23.7.0.25.01) ARM container image on a MacBook with Podman. In this Blog post I will walkthrough the following steps: Configure Podman Download the Oracle Database 23ai Free image Create Podman data volume Create Podman secret Start Oracle 23ai database using Podman. Check Oracle... Continue Reading →
In this blog post I will share how to configure an Oracle Linux 8.9 server and Podman to work with Docker Compose. Docker Compose is a command-line tool used for defining and the running single, or multi-container applications. Docker Compose simplifies the management of the entire application stack, making it easy to manage services, networks,... Continue Reading →
In this short post I will share how to run the latest Oracle Database 23c Free Developer Release with Podman on MacOS. For this post I am using Podman version 4.5.1 running on macOS 13.1, which I installed using brew install podman, brew upgrade podman. We can use podman -v or podman version to check... Continue Reading →