In this Blog I am going to show how we can use the Pure Service Orchestrator (PSO) Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver to deliver Persistent Storage to a 3 node Oracle Linux Cloud Native Environment (OLCNE) Kubernetes Cluster. For this Blog I will be using Vagrant and VirtualBox, if you have not already got Vagrant... Continue Reading →
Oracle 19c on Kubernetes using NFS Persistent Storage
In this Blog I can going to show how you can run an Oracle 19c Database on a Kubernetes cluster using a Network File System (NFS) server for Persistent Storage. In this example I will be using the Pure Storage Container Storage Interface (CSI) Driver Pure Service Orchestrator (PSO) to present a persistent storage to... Continue Reading →
How to use Oracle Database Docker images with Kubernetes
In this Blog I am going to show how we can use the Oracle provided Docker build scripts, and Oracle database zip files to create database image files for use with Kubernetes. Please note all the Oracle Docker database build scripts (except Oracle Express Edition) require you to manually download the database zip files from... Continue Reading →
Getting started with Kubernetes Persistent File Storage
I have recently created a number of blogs posts on running containerised Oracle databases on Kubernetes using the Pure Storage Container Storage Interface (CSI) Driver Pure Service Orchestrator (PSO) to provide persistent block storage to my Oracle database containers using the Pure Service Orchestrator. In this Blog I am going to show how it's equally... Continue Reading →
Running Oracle 19c on Kubernetes
I have recently created a number of blogs posts on running containerised Oracle databases on Kubernetes using the Oracle provided Docker build scripts and the Pure Storage Container Storage Interface (CSI) Driver Pure Service Orchestrator (PSO) to provide persistent storage to my Oracle database containers. In this Blog I am going to show how easy... Continue Reading →
Kubernetes Persistent Volume Snapshot and Cloning
In this Blog post I am going to try-out the new Pure Service Orchestrator (PSO) Kubernetes CSI Driver Volume Snapshot and Cloning features for the first time using one of my FlashArray volumes which I created during a previous Kubernetes previous Blog. Persistent Volume Snapshot Before we start, lets see if we have any existing... Continue Reading →
Relocating an Oracle 18XE Database on a Kubernetes cluster
Background If you follow my Blog or read my last post on delivering Oracle 18c Express Edition Database (XE) in Kubernetes you may already have Oracle 18XE database up and running on Kubernetes cluster using persistent storage. If not, you may want to read this. In this Blog I am going to show how we... Continue Reading →
Deliver Oracle Database18c Express Edition (XE) on Kubernetes
In this Blog I am going to show how the Oracle provided Docker build scripts, and the free to use Oracle 18 XE (Express Edition) database can be used to deliver DBA's, developers, data scientists their own database on Kubernetes. The Oracle 18xe Docker build scripts now automatically 'pulls' the database RPM from OTN for... Continue Reading →
How to run Oracle 12c on a Kubernetes Cluster with persistent storage
Back in April 2017 I blogged on how to use the then official Oracle 12.1 Docker image to run an Oracle 12c database on Docker, if you want to revisit that post you can find it here. However, more recently I shared how you could use Minikube with the latest official Oracle 12.2 Docker image... Continue Reading →