Proxy Oracle Maven repository using Artifactory

Oracle have a Maven repository that hosts artifacts and maven plugins for ADF, WebLogic, SOA composites, Toplink, Coherence and other technologies. Repository is at http://maven.oracle.com. A short registration is required for use the repository. You need to login with your OTN account, read and accept the terms of use. Documentation for how to use the repository with JDeveloper and Hudson/Jenkins Continuous Integration (CI) you can find here:
http://docs.oracle.com/middleware/1213/core/MAVEN/introduction.htm#MAVEN8755

As many developers and CI servers use the repository you download from Oracle repository the same artifacts several times. This is a slow process and can bottleneck the external lines. A more effective solution is to use a repository manager and proxy the Oracle Maven repository on the internal network. This way you will download only 1 time each artifact from Oracle Maven repository and speed up the build process on developer machine or on Continuous Integration Servers.

Using Ansible to configure an Oracle Linux 7.1 server with Oracle 12c R1 Enterprise Edition Database

Ansible is the leading tool for configuring software and various parameters on servers. It does not require agents and other software installed on nodes like other popular tools (puppet or chef). Its also modular and already have hundreds of modules that help us configure our servers in several ways. In this article I will show how we can install an Oracle 12c R1 Database (12.1.0.2) in Oracle Linux 7.1 server. The same Ansible playbook can be used with Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.1 and CentOS 7.1. You can download the code in Github at:

https://github.com/cvezalis/oracledb-ansible

Source code also includes configuration for provision automatically a virtual machine using Vagrant.

Download from Oracle support the Oracle installation files:

- linuxamd64_12102_database_1of2.zip

- linuxamd64_12102_database_1of2.zip

and put them to folder roles/oracle-install/files inside checkout folder

After go into checkout folder and execute :

$ vagrant up 

After a few minutes a virtual machine with Oracle Database will be ready for you without any further configuration. You can access the Enterprise Manager Express using sys/sysdba and “oracle” as password.

https://oradb3.private:5500/em

You can shutdown the virtual machine using:

$ vagrant halt

You can destroy it (delete from disk) using:

$ vagrant destroy

more details at my article here : http://www.nodalpoint.com/devops-ansible-oracle-database-oraclelinux-7-vagrant/