WebLogic Admin Tricks & Tips

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...

Ansible is a task execution engine. Ansible is designed to work on multiple machines to execute the batch of simple task to scale. Ansible is written in Python language, it uses Python 2.6 above is supported platform as requirement. No Agents required! Ansible is simple language that is started as opensource and later it is acquired by Red Hat. The core communication happens with SSH. SSH widely available trusted in all UNIX and Linux systems. Ansible can be run any system as it doesn't relay on central machine. Ansible automation for Java and WebLogic 12c  Here my experiment goes with two Ubuntu 14 Trusty Tahr machine. In one machine Ansible will be installed and other machine is used as target node, in real-time scenario the target list can be many hundreds and this has been proven by NASA and other Ansible implements. Using Ansible lots of organizations get into structured and role based automation implementations successful. For Redhat flavors The actions that n...