Ron Ekins' – Oracle Technology, DevOps and Kubernetes Blog
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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 →
I have previously shared how to run the Oracle Database 23c Free database on an X86 Mac using PodMan, you can find that blog post here. But what about Oracle 23ai and the newer M1/M2/M3 ARM based Apple silicon Macs I hear you ask, so here you go. Preparation Start by installing the Homebrew package... 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 →