Various thoughts on Oracle, Enterprise Architecture, Cloud Computing, Kubernetes and everything Storage
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 →
Overview In this Blog I am going to provide a walthrough of my fully automated Oracle 18 Express Edition (XE) build on a Vagrant managed Oracle Linux VirtualBox virtual machine using Ansible and the Pure Storage FlashArray Ansible collection. I use vagrant up to start my Oracle VirtualBox virtual machine with the latest Oracle Linux... Continue Reading →
In previous Blogs I have shared how you can use Ansible to manage Pure Storage FlashArray volumes and snapshots. In this Blog I will show how you can also use Ansible to access Pure Storage Pure1 to get fleet information such as version, model, volume, snapshots, pods, file systems, network interfaces, and metrics. Accessing Pure1... Continue Reading →
Fully automated Oracle #APEX build using #Oracle18xe, #ORDS and Apache Tomcat @ansible @virtualbox @oracleace
Latest @Ansible demo showing multiple @Oracle #12c databases being refreshed from a simple playbook using @Ansible #AWX @OracleACE
Background I spend most of my time working with Linux but occasionally I come across Oracle on Windows, so I thought it's about time that I tried my hand at using Ansible on Windows. Ansible on Windows You can not currently run Ansible on Windows, but you can manage Windows servers from a Linux or... Continue Reading →
At the beginning of July, Ansible 2.6 was released, this release depreciates a few commands, fixes some issues and extends Cloud support for Amazon, Azure & Google. Ansible 2.6 also includes a few new and updated Pure Storage FlashArray and for the first time FlashBlade modules: Pure Storage FlashArray purefa_host - Enable mixed protocol hosts purefa_hg -... Continue Reading →
In this Blog post I will share another short video demonstrating how storage data services can be used to perform many common data management tasks using simply scripting, DevOPS automation tools and Pure Storage REST API’s . Oracle 12c multiple databases clones with Ansible Before we jump into the demonstration let me detail my architecture and explain... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
Introduction In my previous post An introduction to Ansible I shared some reasons why companies are adopting Ansible and described some of the advantages of using Ansible over other configuration management tools. Now we know what Ansible is, let's start using it. Setting up an Ansible Control Machine The simplest and quickest way to get up and running... Continue Reading →
