Automation

Tips to Develop a new Component on top of YaK Core

If you are following social medias, you are probably aware of the new product that dbi services launched which is called YaK (news here). With Pascal Brand,(…)

Add On-Premises Host in YaK Core

Even if YaK Core does not manage on-premises servers provisioning, these can be easily added to YaK inventory. If you are too excited, can’t wait to test YaK and have no cloud account handy, you(…)

Managing Ansible with AWX – Part II – Organizations, Users and Teams

In the 1st post of this serie, I demonstrate how easy it is to install AWX on a local Minikube Kubernetes cluster. Now that the installation is done and the access to the web console is(…)

Managing Ansible with AWX – Part I – Installation on Minikube

AWX is a web based GUI tool for managing Ansible playbooks. It is the open source upstream project of Red Hat Automation Controller (formerly Ansible Tower) . As for Fedora and RHEL operating systems, the releases of(…)

AWS Automation – Stop a RDS instance

Introduction I created a RDS SQL Server instance on AWS. I use it for test purpose and to minimize the costs I needed to ensure that my instance is stopped automatically at the end of the working day and also(…)

Avoiding patching madness by using AWS SSM

As we have more and more customers either currently moving to AWS or already moved much, if not even all, of their workloads to AWS, one question pops up quite frequently: Now that we have so(…)

Part 2 – vagrant up – get your Oracle infrastructure up an running

Last week in the first part of this blog we have seen a short introduction how to setup an Oracle Infrastructure with Vagrant and Ansible. Remember(…)

The scripts of my DOAG 2015 session: Automated GI/RAC staging with Cobbler and VirtualBox

I promised to upload the scripts of my session to our blog. So, here they are: create_12102_gi_rac_project.sh: This one creates the 12.1.0.2 GI/RAC project on the cobbler server finish_ora_12102_gi_rac_project.sh: This one does the configuration of the GI/RAC on(…)