A slight detour from the original question but, I'm an Oracle DBA and I use nothing but Ansible to manage my installations/configurations and I couldn't be happier. It doesn't matter if it's a cluster (RAC) or stand alone systems, the toolkit <https://github.com/oravirt/ansible-oracle>I wrote handles it. So, it can definitely be done.
I recently changed jobs and I'm in the process of retro-fitting our (fairly large) Oracle environments to be managed by Ansible. Fortunately I haven't had much resistance yet. Good luck! /M On Friday, June 17, 2016 at 6:27:29 PM UTC+2, Adam Morris wrote: > > Resistance from co-workers is a big problem... > > Legacy systems is another one but can be dealt with... > > In some cases their are other issues though... > > But equally it is not always possible to replace manual installations. I > am not an Oracle DBA and in the organisation I work for the DBAs are a > separate team. While it might be possible for me to automate Oracle > installation and configuration, I don't know what to do, and I don't think > that they would let me. (Heck, they don't listen when I tell them that > asmlib is not needed, is a hack, and we should use the OS equivalent which > is better supported) > > Some of our installs could be automated, but when you only install the app > once on two machines and the vendor supplied instructions are several > hundred pages, I am not going there. If the vendor wants to automate their > install process then great, but in that case I am not. (The application, > database, message bus, DNS entries, file systems, network settings, etc are > all detailed. The application alone consists of several hundred daemons > and has its own registry...) > > Finally I also have to deal with some systems which have been approved by > a regulatory agency. Those ones cannot be changed without a lot more > approval work. In those cases we are mostly at the mercy of the > application vendor. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/b0e88495-2195-4044-891c-b17f77f0a977%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
