Re: Configuration management / Puppet for Oracle DBA'ing

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.

Seth

On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 8:51 AM Chris Stephens <cstephens16_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>> 201.369.8355 <(201)%20369-8355>
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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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