How-tos - Chronicles of Technology

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.

Oracle SOA Suite

Automate SOA Infra configuration

For the last six months, I work on the fully automated Oracle Fusion Middleware platform delivery . We use Ansible as a main automation tool and OEM for the most of the daily Ops routines.

Ghost

Break the line

My fired, Ahmed, has published few posts with the WebLogic output. And I'm sure you have seen endless output lines, especially if the system throws an exception. So he asked me: "How we can wrap the lines in code blocks?"

How-tos

Git client for Windows: basic configuration

It's quite common when you have no admin access to the workstation and proxy server with the authorization for the internet access. First part is quite easy, you can find most of the DEV tools such maven or git in portable format. Now I'll tell you how to configure proxy for git.

Ghost

Another ode to Ghost

Google knows you better, and second link from from the top was: "Hey, looks like it's your domain! Why don't you try Google Search Console?". The site hookup process is quite easy, especially if you have our domains with Google, and use the same account.

Ansible

List as a parameter

About a month ago, I developed an Ansible role to manage OPSS application policies. By original design, my role uses two lists: application role names and principals and then assigned each role to

Oracle

Oracle 18c XE on Linux Mint

When things go naturally, you select an operating system, supported by the database of choice. Unfortunately, the only natural in our business is a changes. And somewhere in the middle of that, you find yourself with the task like "Hey, we need Oracle database on the Linux Mint box."