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Learning 1. Minikube Kubernetes Cluster Running in the Oracle VirtualBox

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My learning Kubernetes Cluster is an essential skill for SRE DevOps Engineers on any Cloud platforms. My learning capability keep growing with this daily dose !! :) I like the statement given in one of the author -Kubernetes is like captain of ship where multiple container clusters carried in the huge ship. This is a first step that will help you to enter into world of Kubernetes cluster technologies. Kubernetes is also known as k8s, this is quite young technology in the DevOps stack. Here we have two options to work-out on Learning Kubernetes: Kubernetes installing in master-slave in multiple nodes Minikube running a locally single node The first option will be used in real-time production environments, and the other is used for learning purposes. Here I've selected the second option for running WebLogic on Minikube. Benefits of Kubernetes cluster There are many benefits but in brief for WebLogic   Kubernetes is the core component in Cloud Native Engineering pla...

3. Learning How to build Best Docker images?

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The containerization concept was available since the 1978s in the UNIX. but the real usage and evaluation started from the year 2014 onward, a small community of docker open-source organizations started to focus on it and developing it. In the last post, we had the unofficial image then it went up the size up to 3.8 GB. But same logic if we try on Oracle Linux 7-Slim version image it reduced 1 GB!!!   Use Layered approach for Oracle images   Most of the developers question how do we deliver it to end-user when you create the containers for WebLogic. The best practice to use the layered approach for WebLogic applications. We have demonstrated with the following layer approach the whole stack is going to break down into two major parts: Read-only  Read-write  The latest image is on top which is only allows you to modify the content. where application jar/war/ear file will be deployed. The bottom stack will be re-used by multiple developers to build ...

Ansible automation for WebLogic - Part 2: Unarchive and Copy WebLogic installers

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This post is continuous learning " Ansible automation for WebLogic " series. If you are not read the previous post please go through it which will be telling you that Java installation using Ansible . That same play book you can use it for CPU patches. The objective of this post is to use the ansible playbook for unzip the WebLogic installer and run the silent mode installer. As we have explored in the last post unarchive module used for the Java installer which had tar.gz extension.  There are multiple modules in ansible which are very powerful. In this post I would like to share my experiments with the following: unarchive module copy module Unarchive module in Ansible We can use the unarchive module for Zip files and also for tar.gz files. When we use this module need to provide the src, dest values that is source and destination. This module automatically copies the zip file and unzip it in the remote The copy module in Ansible The copy module is works similar...