Ang Wei ShanArcusOne

19th November 2015

Puppet Camp Singapore 2015Puppet with Oracle Databases

Agenda

1. Introduction

2. Life of a traditional DBA

3. Life of a new generation DBA

4. Demo

Introduction

● Database Administrator

● > 4 years of experience in databases

● Worked with majority of the RDBMS

● ≈100 days with Puppet

● ArcusOne

Life of a traditional DBA

● Extremely tedious

● Prone to careless mistakes

● Inconsistent configurations among different DBAs

● What if you need to create multiple environment?

Problems with this approach….

Life of a new generation DBA

Demo

● Puppet v3.8.4

● Puppet modules○ biemond/oradb

○ petems-swap_file

○ fiddyspence-sysctl

○ ramseymcgrath-remove_hugepage

○ erwbgy-limits

● Provisioning an Oracle database stack on CentOS 7.1

Thank you for your attention!!weishan@arcusone.com