Ron Ekins' – Oracle Technology, DevOps and Kubernetes Blog
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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 →
How to get started with the Pure Storage Docker Volume plugin
"Accidentally destroyed production database on first day of a job" Wow, that headline grabbed my attention. Earlier this week you may have seen an article reported by The Register about a post in reddit from a junior software developer going by the name of "cscareerthrowaway567", who on his/her first day destroyed a Production database and lost their job.... Continue Reading →
Getting the Image Great news, during DockerCon 2017 Oracle announced support for Oracle 12.1 Database Docker images. Press release: Oracle Brings Oracle’s Flagship Databases and Developer Tools to the Docker Store Previously to run an Oracle Database in a Docker container you needed to create your own Docker image, I actually Blogged on this earlier in... 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 →
Why this Blog Over the last couple of years I have found myself increasingly working with DevOps teams and being exposed to the tools and techniques being adopted. However speaking to other DBA's and Architects it appears that for many it's still a bit of a 'Dark Art', so I thought it was about time... Continue Reading →