1. Ang Wei Shan
ArcusOne
19th November 2015
Puppet Camp Singapore 2015
Puppet with Oracle Databases

2. Agenda
1. Introduction
2. Life of a traditional DBA
3. Life of a new generation DBA
4. Demo

3. Introduction

5. ● Database Administrator
● > 4 years of experience in databases
● Worked with majority of the RDBMS
● ≈100 days with Puppet
● ArcusOne

6. Life of a traditional DBA

9. ● Extremely tedious
● Prone to careless mistakes
● Inconsistent configurations among different DBAs
● What if you need to create multiple environment?
Problems with this approach….

10. Life of a new generation DBA

13. Demo

14. ● 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

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