OBIEE DevOps with Containers: How and Why

Provisioning developers’ sandboxes or regression testings and continuous integration in OBIEE, some common DevOps tasks which often take time and resources. Containers technology provides a quick and flexible answer to these growing needs and as opposed to virtual machines require less resources (storage and memory). You will learn about containers (Docker) and how OBIEE can fit into it and be managed easily to fulfil these common tasks. Having nightmares thinking at your next upgrade or patch? OBIEE in a container can be a solution for having sweet dreams every night. Works both on prem and cloud (OCCS or others).

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7. Server Host OS Hypervisor Guest OS bins/libs App B Guest OS bins/libs App A Guest OS bins/libs App A’ VM Server Host OS bins/libs App A App A’ bins/libs App B App B’ App B’ App B’ Docker Container Containers are isolated, but share OS and, where appropriate, bins/libraries
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11. • • • Docker commands Commands you would run in your console
12. • • #ref of the slice Steps run in a temp container
13. • Oraclelinux image The various steps of my Dockerfile
14. • • • • Single “RUN”, download binaries “on the fly” YUM install required packages Oraclelinux “slim” image My Oraclelinux “BI” image My OBIEE image
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17. break the wall … Extend Agility to Production …
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26. Master Dev/yy Dev/xx Compare BVT results with the latest one of Master Deploy this version to TEST environment This branch is developed in an OBIEE sandbox running on Docker to make provisioning simple and fast
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29. A CI pipeline is running Different stages Each stage has one or many jobs
30. RPD check BVT Self documentation Review environment
32. The CI steps use Docker to execute OBIEE. First thing is to create a new OBIEE environment, that’s why the container start by configuring OBIEE (RCU, create domain, start components)
33. When OBIEE is running (inside the Docker container) the RPD and catalog from GIT are deployed. Finally BVT is executed.
34. At the end time to cleanup: RCU schemas are dropped from the database, results of tests (artifacts) are saved in GitLab before to drop the container. There is nothing left from this OBIEE instance, like if it never existed…
35. All the results of automated tests have been stored as “artifacts” and can be downloaded for detailed analysis
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