Re: Configuration management / Puppet for Oracle DBA'ing

From: Chris Stephens <cstephens16_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 10:05:04 -0500
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care to expand on "deep end of the pool"?

do you use custom modules or the one i linked to in original post or another module?

On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 9:52 AM Matthew Parker <dimensional.dba_at_comcast.net> wrote:

> I do puppet coding for a variety of clients for delivery of Oracle
> products.
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> We have had none of the failures in delivering Oracle with puppet that Jay
> spoke of.
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> Both Puppet and Ansible are viable tools for delivering Oracle. However
> you deliver Oracle for all possibilities you are stepping int othe deep end
> of the pool, not because of the tools, but because of Oracle itself.
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> *From:* oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org <oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org> *On
> Behalf Of *Seth Miller
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 12, 2018 7:36 AM
> *To:* Chris Stephens <cstephens16_at_gmail.com>
> *Cc:* Jay.Miller_at_tdameritrade.com; Oracle-L Freelists <
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> *Subject:* Re: Configuration management / Puppet for Oracle DBA'ing
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> I'm a big fan of Ansible. I've used it on many projects Oracle related. It
> is very extensible and fairly easy to pick up, and since the Red Hat
> acquisition, it's feature development has really taken off. Take a look at
> Ansible Tower to see what I mean.
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> Seth
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> On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 8:51 AM Chris Stephens <cstephens16_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> that's interesting. thanks for input.
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> On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 8:49 AM <Jay.Miller_at_tdameritrade.com> wrote:
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> We’re abandoning Puppet for our database installs and patching and are
> currently investigating Ansible. We generally had about a 25% failure rate
> with our database installs running the exact same process each time.
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> It might be that the people in charge of Puppet here just weren’t good
> enough at it but we ended up doing a lot of manual installs after Puppet
> failures. It seems to work well for most non-database related tasks.
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> Jay Miller
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> Sr. Oracle DBA
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> *From:* oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:
> oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] *On Behalf Of *Chris Stephens
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 12, 2018 8:44 AM
> *To:* oracle-l
> *Subject:* Configuration management / Puppet for Oracle DBA'ing
>
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>
> The system administration folks here are big fans of Puppet. After
> deciding to take it seriously and reading a bit about it (yes, I'm behind
> the times), the advantages are clear and Puppet or some other configuration
> management software should probably be in the mix for any well managed
> database environment. Ansible seems to be picking up steam in
> Oracle-land. At least that's true for my twitter feed and rss
> subscriptions. Is anyone else out there using Puppet to perform DBA
> related tasks? If so, do you have any pointers on where to start? Is
> there any reason to avoid Puppet and choose another technology? There is a
> free module on Puppet Forge at https://forge.puppet.com/biemond/oradb
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__forge.puppet.com_biemond_oradb&d=DwMFaQ&c=nulvIAQnC0yOOjC0e0NVa8TOcyq9jNhjZ156R-JJU10&r=aiKV3Uv2Wo7GqYQcis9TSvB1MZslPOnintrOY1rjG58&m=v5X_cfi1DxSHdWKUTREB24ny4NEojcIiGAbTZDYlMQc&s=cMPGqyKZ9W0TiB4mNEpAyCrA9EnTidYj4M8kUrQSfqU&e=>.
> Does anyone have any experience with that?
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> Thanks in advance for any input.
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> Chris
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