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Arturo Viveros Jorge Quilcate

Sysco Middleware

Lightning Quick Provisioning and DevOps for Oracle SOA Suite 12c

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Intro• This session’s focus is on Oracle Fusion Middleware, but it can be applied to many

purposes• There are multiple benefits from this approach• Also lots of alternatives• It’s a hot and disruptive topic among the IT community

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“Convention vs Configuration”

Decrease the number of decisions the developer needs to take, thereby reducing error margins without losing flexibility

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Repeatable Tasks: Steeper Learning Curve vs Constant Time Investment

Time

# of Repetitions

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Consistency + Discipline = Success

“Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.”

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DevOps(ish) Approach• Increased Agility

✓ Better Time to Market✓ Business & Technology Alignment

• Increased Quality✓ Consistent Environments✓ Increased Reliability✓ Improved Resiliency✓ Continuity of Business

• Reduced Overhead✓ More time to focus on:

✓ solutions, ✓ testing ✓ and innovation

✓ Projects become more feasible

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Images and Provisioning

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Why?

• Machine images:✓ Backup/Restore✓ Cloning/Replication

• Provisioning (a.k.a. Automation):✓ Speed/Resources✓ Reusability/Continuous Improvement

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Machine Images in history

Backups and Disk images

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Machine Images in historyMachine configuration checkpoints

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Machine Images in historyMachine configuration checkpoints

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Machine ImagesMachine configuration checkpoints

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Machine ImagesMachine configuration checkpoints

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Machine ImagesMachine configuration checkpoints

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Imaging goal

“Immutable Infrastructure”

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ProvisioningHow to go from point A to B?

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Provisioning

Shell Scripts✓ Reusable (mostly)✓ Concrete

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Provisioning

Provisioning tools: ✓ Abstraction over Shell

Commands✓ Reusable (even with Windows)

✓ Templating✓ Collaboration✓ Extensible

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Provisioning goal

“Infrastructure as Code”

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Demo: Oracle SOA Suite with Vagrant + Puppet

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Typical Provisioning Stages

Bare Metal -> VM/Container -> Standardized Env -> Software Installation -> Domain Config -> Resources -> Lifecycle -> Tuning -> Etc.

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Demo: Oracle SOA Suite with Docker + Ansible

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SOA Suite Domain ProvisioningStep 1: Oracle Database instance provisioning

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SOA Suite Domain ProvisioningStep 2: Oracle SOA Suite provisioning

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SOA Suite Domain ProvisioningStep 3: Oracle SOA Database prepared

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SOA Suite Domain ProvisioningStep 3: Oracle SOA Domain

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SOA Suite Domain ProvisioningStep 3: Oracle SOA Domain

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Docker benefitStep 3: Oracle SOA Domain

Source: http://www.slideshare.net/Docker/open-design-at-large-scale-by-solomon-hykes

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Challenges• Storage: Don’t store data in containers, use volumes!• Networking: Don’t rely in hostnames or IP addresses• Clustering: A lot of options. Work in progress (Kubernetes, Docker

Swarm, Mesos)

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Challenges• Continuous Integration/Delivery: Use Jenkins to orchestrate your

building process

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Challenges• Monitoring and Management: Control and monitor your data-center

provisioning

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