Various thoughts on Oracle, Enterprise Architecture, Cloud Computing, Kubernetes and everything Storage
Introduction In a previous post I introduced ORCA for Windows and shared a Video of it in use, in this post we will spend a bit of time looking at some of the techniques I used to implement it.. Working with Ansible Templates One of the Ansible features I find myself using time and time... 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 →
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 →
