Oracle related rants (and lots of off-topic stuff)…
In today’s video we’ll demonstrate how to convert a CentOS installation to an Oracle Linux installation.
The video is based on this post.
The star of today’s video is Dan Norris, in a clip from a previous OpenWorld, which seems like a long distant memory now.
Cheers
Tim…
PS. I know I said there would be no more videos this year, but this was very much “of the moment”, so I thought it was worth doing.
Last week I had a quick email exchange with Simon Coter from Oracle about a few things related to Oracle Linux 8. I’ve been a little out of the loop over the last few weeks because of some important world event or another, so I had a bit of catching up to do.
UEK6 had been in preview for a while. In March it went GA, and I managed to miss that until recently. Even if you don’t care directly about the Linux kernel, this was a big thing because it was the first UEK release on Oracle Linux 8, and most of us outside Oracle were thinking this would mark the start of certification of Oracle products on OL8 (see below).
About a month ago Oracle announced you can download the Oracle Linux ISO images from yum.oracle.com. See here.
This is much cleaner than using eDelivery, but form experience eDelivery is a lot quicker for downloads!
In Oracle Linux 8 the Oracle supplied Docker engine has been replaced by Podman. I was blindly expecting Docker CE support, like we had with OL7, once UEK6 was released. When I asked about this I got educated about Podman. About a day later someone else mentioned it on Twitter.
I’ve got a separate blog post coming about Podman.
A few days ago Oracle Linux 8.2 was born (here).
In my email exchange Simon told me WebLogic was already certified on OL8, but there had been no official announcement about the database certification yet.
Today I noticed Mike Dietrich had a blog post about this. The database is now certified on OL8. 🙂
This is the certification of 19c (19.7) database on OL8 with UEK6. I don’t know what will happen with previous database versions, but I kind-of hope they don’t certify them. I want to forget older releases exist.
Once I heard this I went on to the OL8 Yum repository and noticed the “oracle-database-preinstall-19c” package is now in the repo. Happy days.
I’ve got a separate post coming about this.
There’s been a lot happening while I was looking in the other direction. 🙂 The moral of this story is don’t blink, and keep looking at the Oracle Linux Blog.
Cheers
Tim…
PS. There is a lot more stuff on the Oracle Linux blog. I’ve just mentioned the things that directly affect me…
Today’s video is a quick run through a manual installation of Oracle Linux 8.
I put out a number of articles about Oracle Linux 8 when the beta was first released. I’ve now updated them where appropriate.
I’ve also gone through my Vagrant builds for 18c on OL8 and 19c on OL8. They work fine, although there isn’t a Vagrant box for OL8 yet, so I had to make my own using the method similar to this.
Remember, OL8 has only just come out, so the database is not certified on it yet. I’ve put at note a the top of the database installation guides saying as much.
The star of today’s video is Mahir M. Quluzade. He was grinning most of the way through filming this. 🙂
Cheers
Tim…