OUGE Meetup

OUGE would like to invite you to our new Meetup!

Agenda:
15:00 - Welcome
15:30 - OUGE News
15:45 - Ilmar Kerm: Oracle Database infrastructure as code with Ansible
16:30 - Coffee break
16:45 - Juris Trošins: Patching
17:30 - Wrapping up

Abstracts:

Presenter: Ilmar Kerm
Title: Oracle Database infrastructure as code with Ansible
Wikipedia defines infrastructure as code as "the process of managing and provisioning computer data centers through machine-readable definition files, rather than physical hardware configuration or interactive configuration tools." This principle greatly simplifies setting up and managing large server parks, it also helps with repeatability and auditability in all environments.
In a traditional Oracle database world we are not yet used to thinking like this, possibly because we are so used to the fact that we scale up and not out.
As the number of said sever nodes is so small we can afford to give them cute names and we care about our databases and servers like our most beloved pets. This in turn makes the server configurations unique, not traceable and dependent on specific (human) administrators who have a deep knowledge about all the moods the beloved pets can have.
In this presentation we will show you how we use Ansible to maintain our full Oracle ecosystem configurations, as version controlled code. So the beloved pets can join the cattle of the rest of the application infrastructure so we can truly move to the global scale cloud era.

Presenter: Juris Trošins
Title: Patching: Answers To The Questions You Probably Were Afraid To Ask About Oracle Databases Update
How often should I patch my Oracle RDBMS home? Or my grid infrastructure home? Should I even bother? How difficult is it? How long will the downtime be? Will I break something? And will I be able to fix the thing I broke by applying an update? I applied the last patch 10 years ago, what has changed since? These and more questions I will answer during my presentation. This will be useful for new DBAs seeking their peace of mind during patching process when their manager is standing behind their back with the stopwatch.