Ron Ekins' – Oracle Technology, DevOps and Kubernetes Blog
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Background Over the last few years I have seen an increasing interest within the Oracle community with PostgreSQL and more recently with Yugabyte. During a recent User Group conference I took the opportunity to learn a bit more about YugabyteDB by attending an excellent presentation by my good friend Franck Pachot. Using my new found... Continue Reading →
Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) Cluster Let's start by creating an Oracle Kubernetes Engine cluster on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). You can use the OCI Web UI to manually create an OKE Cluster within your OCI Compartment. Or if you prefer you may want to consider using my Terraform automation which is available in GitHub. Before... Continue Reading →
Background 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. However, for the purpose of this post I am going to be using the official MySQL Kubernetes Operator developed by... Continue Reading →
Introduction In this post I am going to share how we can install Portworx Essentials into an existing Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) If you have not already got an Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) cluster up and running you could may want to check-out the two posts below. Automated... 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 →
Introduction If you thinking about, or already running an Oracle database within a container, you may have thought 'how I am I going to backup and secure my database and environment ?' In this post I will share how we can use Portworx PX-Backup to easily backup an Oracle database to a Pure Storage FlashBlade... Continue Reading →
I have previously shared how we can deliver a containerised Oracle 19c database using a Kubernetes Statefulset with Block devices, in this post I will show how we do the same with Kubernetes Deployments and NFS. For this post I will be using Kubernetes v1.17 [root@master-1 ~]# kubectl version --short | awk -Fv '/Server Version:... Continue Reading →
Introduction I have previously blogged on how a simple Ansible playbook can be used to automate the cloning of Oracle database(s) on Linux, utilising the Pure Storage Ansible modules and storage snapshots. If you're interested my Ansible code for Oracle Rapid Clone Automation (ORCA) can be found up on GitHub or if you prefer to... Continue Reading →
Introduction By default, Portworx thin provisions volumes and balances them according to current usage and load within the cluster, requiring only minimal configuration. This approach enables applications to provision volumes simply as long as you have enough backing storage for the volume usage. However if the volume usage exceeds your available backing storage, and allocating... Continue Reading →
Introduction If you follow my blog or have read my post Oracle Database 19c on Kubernetes with Portworx storage you may have an Oracle database running on Kubernetes and are wondering how do I protect it. In this post I will show you how we can use Portworx Volume Group Snapshots to complement other backup strategies.... Continue Reading →