OpenSSL Quick Certificate Validation Check certificate validity for a site; what could be easier? It's a click away if the address of interest is in your browser. Learn how you can check expiration dates for multiple Learn how you can check expiration dates for multiple host or virtual hosts with SNI.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Enforce HTTPS With OCI Load Balancer To enforce secure connection you should enforce rewrite rules to rout your clients toward secure listener. The same could be done with load balancer in Oracle Cloud.
WebLogic Speeding up WLST Back in Java 7 days, when your WebLogic domain runs like a snail on a sunny meadow, you knew that you forgot to fix your random source. It is not
JDeveloper Easy JDK update Working on the integrated WebLogic server configuration, I run into a very neat Middleware 12c feature. The primary fix for the issue is to use old JDK8. When you have JDeveloper and domain configured, you can upgrade your installation to the desired JDK version, with simple steps below.
JDeveloper DefaultDomain in SOA Studio 12.2.1.4 I always struggle to configure internal WebLogic 12.2.x server and domain. Finally, Oracle Support helped me to complete the SOA/BPM Studio 12.2.1.4 configuration.
Red Hat Too much security: Is it a thing? What I love about Red Hat classes, you get a live environment . This time, my new lab was partially unavailable. I click on the link, glimpse the application page, and then I get a protocol error page.
Red Hat Ansible: Yes and No, True and False During the code review, my colleague and I have fixed a few ageless Boolean variable issues. If you have ever done even a humble sized JavaScript project, you know what
OCI How Oracle Cloud helps you save on Oracle Cloud The recent Ahmed's post on OCI client installation gave me an idea to post this piece. My Oracle Cloud trial has ended, and I have no other option but to be more budget aware. The most apparent recipe is quite similar to the basic household rule: "Turn the lights off when you leave the room."
Oracle Apex Off-the-map Apex From time to time, you need good old Oracle software. And the first challenge you face is to find the software binaries.
Ansible Unsafe writes - why you need it. As a former Oracle DBA, I'm totally against anything marked as "unsafe." Today I have learned why RedHat Ansible has unsafe_writes clause for some commands. Here is a real-life
Ansible I want to be a ... I'm working on the small project which touches multiple cloud-based hosts across multiple providers. And this is a good chance to refresh your knowledge on how to handle various connections
OHS Graceful restart for Oracle HTTP Server 11g From time to time, you need to update configuration HTTP server configuration. but OHS 11g offers only full start and stops. Read how to do it gracefully.
Oracle Always free ... to go There were a lot of talks about how the Oracle's "NextGen" Cloud is better than all the other public cloud providers and how Oracle stands out among all the other vendors with always free offerings.
Quarkus Easy Fix For Quarkus 1.2.0 Native Build The new Quarkus release has just arrived and I decided to refresh my project to see how it works with GraalVM on JDK 11. Well, the native build failed with an indistinct exception.
Ansible Ansible NOVA meetup If you live in metro DC area and interesting in RedHat Ansible come and join us to learn how you can use this marvelous automation tool to manage Oracle Fusion Middleware environments. All details could be found on the event page at https://www.meetup.com/Ansible-NOVA/events/267997275.
OpenShift NATCAP OUG Meetup If you live in the metro DC area and interesting in cutting end technologies come and join us and learn from the first hands. I'm going to talk about containers and virtualization. At the end of the presentation, I'll show you ho you can have your very own RedHat OpenShift 4 on your laptop.
Containers RedHat OpenShift and private repositories For a while, I play around with RedHat CodeReady Containers and one thing annoyed me most - access to private repositories. My pet projects are GitLab and I'm not ready to expose them as public ones. So, whenever I create an application, the first
Containers RedHat CodeReady Containers update Today my during the container start I have got notification that version 1.3.0 is available. During setup I get error that my libvrt bundle is not compatible with the new release. So you can find how I made an error and fix it.
Ansible Ansible and Jinja Templates Quite recently I have adopted OUD 12c configuration playbook to work with 11g PS3. And here I run into a tricky difference in configuration parameters. I'm pretty sure there are numerous ways to solve this, but my story is all about Ansible and Jinja.
Ansible My article in #PTK magazine UK Oracle User Group has printed my piece about RedHat Ansible and Oracle Fusion Middleware platform. Take a look and let me know if you can use it for your environments and projects. The tech part of the issue #72 could be found here.
Ansible XML documents and Ansible When you automate J2EE environments you can't avoid XML documents. Let's see what you can do if you should process XML as a structured data set.
WebLogic Demo certificates in BPM 12c domain We have found anotehr SSL hiccup in the BPM domain environment settings.
SSL Secure Oracle HTTP Server 12c scripts I always use custom certificates for the WebLogic servers and all the components. However, you may face connection issues with the custom NodEManager security configuration.
Ansible Start OHS 12c no questions asked By default, when you start domain component, such as Oracle HTTP Server instance, script prompts you for the NodeManager password. It is good security-wise, not so great for the automation.
Linux Dude, where is my kernel? I've got a little bit lost, trying to to install VirtualBox Guest Additions on my freshly installed and upgraded CentOS 7 virtual machine. I have tried all the tricks I found and still Virtual Box installer wont able to find my kernel headers.
