Oracle EBS(R12) On Cloud (OCI) for Apps DBAs & Architects Training : Step By Step Activity Guides/Hands-On Lab Exercise

This post covers Step by Step Hands-On Activity Guides that you must perform in order to learn Oracle EBS (R12) on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI),(for free masterclass register here) You can use these exact steps to bring you and your team of Apps DBAs up-to-speed quickly for supporting Customers Moving to Cloud.

In our 7 weeks Oracle EBS (R12) on Oracle Cloud (OCI) Training Program, we cover the below Modules & Step-by-step hands-on guides.

1) Register For Oracle Cloud Free Trial Account
2) Access OCI & IDCS Console
3) Create Compartment
4) Create Users, Groups & Assign Users To Groups
5) Create Policies & Assign To Groups
6) Create a Virtual Cloud Network (VCN) & Subnet
7) Create Firewall (Security List)
8) Create Internet Gateway (IGW) for Internet Connectivity
9) Create Route Tables, Add Route Rules & Assign Route Tables To Subnet
10) Generate SSH Keys
11) Create & Connect To EBS Cloud Manager VM
12) Configure EBS Cloud Manager VM
13) Provision EBS Environment Using One-click Provisioning
14) Provision EBS Environment Using Advanced Provisioning
15) Connect To EBS Instance & Access WebLogic Admin URL
16) EBS Cloud Manager: Start/Stop
17) EBS Cloud Manager: Update Config, Load Balancer, IDCS
18) Backup & Restore EBS Cloud Manager: Create Custom Images
19) Cloning EBS (R12) Instance Using EBS Cloud Manager on OCI
20) Connecting To An On-premise Server For Migration
21) Migrate (Lift & Shift) EBS R12 From On-premise To Oracle Cloud
22) Bonus Activity Guide: EBS Provisioning on OCI Using Pre-Loaded Templates
23) Bonus Activity Guide: Configure SSL/TLS For Load Balancer In EBS

Here’s the Quick Sneak Peek of what you need to perform in order to become Cloud APPs DBA.

Activity Guide I: Register For Oracle Cloud Free Trial Account

The first thing you must do is to get a Trial Account for Oracle Cloud (You get 300 USD FREE Credit from Oracle to practice, that must be used within 30 days).

Once you register for Oracle Cloud Trial, you should get an Email Like below from Oracle:

Check out our blog to know How to Register For FREE Oracle Cloud Trial Account
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Follow our step-by-step guide to register for a FREE Oracle Cloud Trial Account.

Activity Guide II: Access OCI & IDCS Console

The very next step is you should familiarize yourself with the Cloud My Services Dashboard & OCI Console. You should know How to Access the Cloud Dashboard, How to Customize it as per your requirement & How to reach & Access OCI Consoles, How to Create & Manage Group. You must know about the tasks you can perform from these consoles and how to check common things like billing and access other cloud services.

Read more on our blog How to Access My Service Dashboard

Activity Guide III: Create Compartment

A compartment is a logical container in which OCI resources reside. It is used for security isolation and access control. A resource in OCI will definitely belong to a Compartment. It is used to provide appropriate access to various resources in OCI.

In this Activity Guide, we cover creating separate compartments for EBS Cloud Manager, EBS Environments, and Network resources.

Read my blog to know more about Compartments

Activity Guide IV: Create Users, Groups & Assign Users To Groups

You must know What is IAM? IAM Stands for Identity & Access Management that includes How to Create & Manage Users, Groups, Compartments & Security Policies for Securing Oracle Cloud.

This is one of the first fundamentals that you must learn and the best way to learn this is by:

• Creating Groups
• Create Users
• Assign Users in Group

Read our blog, If you are not familiar with Users & Groups

Activity Guide V: Create Policies & Assign To Groups

This Guided Lab will help you to understand security in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure & lets you control who has access to your cloud resources. You can control what type of access a group of users have and to which specific resource by the use of Policy.

Read more about Overview Of Policy & How It Work In Oracle Cloud (OCI)

Activity Guide VI: Create Virtual Cloud Network (VCN) & Subnet

As a Cloud Apps DBA, you should have networking knowledge as well as you need to set up a virtual cloud network (VCN) for your cloud resources. You should know how to create VCN and Subnets inside the VCN.

Virtual Cloud Network (VCN) is a virtual network in which you can create subnets, route tables, security lists and gateways for your compute instances the same way you do in your traditional network.

Read our blog to know more about Virtual Cloud Network (VCN)

Activity Guide VII: Create Firewall (Security List)

Security List is a common set of firewall rules associated with a subnet and applied to all compute instances in that subnet. Network Security Groups are another method for implementing security rules.

Read our blog to know more about Network Security Groups (NSGs) Vs. Security List (SL): When to use What?

Activity Guide VIII: Create Internet Gateway (IGW) for Internet Connectivity

An Internet Gateway (IGW) provides a path for network traffic between the internet and OCI VCN. Compute Instance in Public Subnet by default won’t be able to connect to the internet without IG.

Activity Guide IX: Create Route Tables, Add Route Rules & Assign Route Tables To Subnet

VCN uses virtual Route Tables to send traffic out of the VCN (for example, to the internet, to your on-premises network, or to a peered VCN). These route tables have route rules that provide mapping for traffic from subnet via gateways to other subnets or destinations outside VCN.

To know more about Networking in Oracle cloud, Check Oracle Cloud: Create VCN, Subnet, Firewall (Security List), IGW, DRG: Step By Step

Activity Guide X: Generate SSH Keys

In this Activity Guide, we will create an SSH key pair that you will use to Connect to Compute Instances like Windows & Linux machine from Putty or terminal.

Check out our blog to know How to Generate SSH Key Pair for Oracle Cloud (Windows/Linux)

Activity Guide XI: Create & Connect To EBS Cloud Manager VM

EBS Cloud Manager is a utility to centrally Manage, Provision, and Migrate (Lift & Shift) Oracle EBS from On-premise to OCI or back. You must set up the Oracle EBS Cloud Manager Tool, Update it to the latest Code level.

In this Activity Guide, we will create an EBS Cloud Manager VM using an image from Marketplace and we will connect to it using Putty.

Check the latest release of EBS Cloud Manager 20.2.1

• It can provision a new EBS instance on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
• To backup an EBS instance on the cloud.
• To delete an EBS instance.
• To migrate EBS instance from OCI to OCI or from On-premise to OCI.
• To integrate Oracle EBS with Oracle third-party software like Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle Identity, and Access Management Suite, etc.
• Cloning from OCI to OCI as well as Cloning from On-premise to Cloud.
• You also use this Oracle EBS Cloud Manager utility to manage the Oracle EBS environment.

Activity Guide XII: Configure EBS Cloud Manager VM

Once you have created a network and you will have to create a network profile and upload the profile to use in provisioning your Oracle E-Business Suite environments.

In this Activity Guide, we cover configuring API Authentication keys, running EBS Cloud Manager configuration script, and covering Network Profiles for EBS Environments.

Activity Guide XIII: Provision EBS Environment Using One-click Provisioning

EBS Environment can be deployed using EBS Cloud Manager in two ways: One-click Provisioning and Advanced Provisioning. One-click Provisioning comes with pre-populated deployment options and creates an environment with a Single VM for both Application and Database.

In this Activity Guide, we cover using the One-Click Provisioning feature of Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager to provision an Oracle E-Business Suite environment.

Activity Guide XIV: Provision EBS Environment Using Advanced Provisioning

Advanced Provisioning can be customized with user-selected deployment options. This has the ability to create an environment from a backup of other environments and also provides application file system choices and Database choices such as– Compute, VM, Exadata.

In this Activity Guide, we cover provisioning an Oracle E-Business Suite Environment using the Advanced Provisioning feature of Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager.

Activity Guide XV: Connect To EBS Instance & Access WebLogic Admin URL

In this Activity Guide, we will connect to EBS Instance using EBS Application URL and will also access Weblogic Console for Maintenance Activities.

Activity Guide XVI: EBS Cloud Manager: Start/Stop

Oracle frequently updates the EBS Cloud Manager versions, so this activity guide covers how to check the latest EBS Cloud Manager Version, how to upgrade it to the latest version

In this Activity guide, we will perform:

• Check EBS Cloud Manager Version and update if required
• Start/Stop Cloud Manager VM

Once you know Tasks like Creating EBS R12 on Cloud, Cloud Manager Tool and Security then focus on Advanced tasks to set yourself apart from other Cloud Apps DBAs

Activity Guide XVII: EBS Cloud Manager: Update Config, Load Balancer, IDCS

In this Activity guide, we will perform:

• Update Config
• Update Load Balancer URL
• Change Parallel Workers
• Abort running jobs

Read our blog to know more about EBS Cloud Manager and its features.

Activity Guide XVIII: Backup & Restore EBS Cloud Manager: Create Custom Images

You will need to backup your EBS Cloud Manager at times such as right before updating to a latest version or before doing any major change.

In this Activity Guide, we cover creating a custom image of EBS Cloud Manager and this will be the backup of your EBS Cloud Manager VM that we will use to restore the same EBS cloud manager VM or create a new EBS Cloud Manager VM.

Activity Guide XIX: Cloning EBS (R12) Instance Using EBS Cloud Manager on OCI

Then move to Cloning EBS (R12) on OCI. Cloning of Oracle application is one of the most common activities for DBA and when it comes to Cloud quicker and faster options are expected.

So you should know various options and techniques for cloning existing Oracle applications on OCI in clear and easy steps. With the Cloud Manager tool, it can be done quickly and conveniently. As of not only Compute clone can be done which will be blocked volume cloning or fast cloning methodology.

In this Activity Guide, we cover cloning an EBS instance via Cloud Manager and later performing Post Cloning Tasks.

Activity Guide XX: Connecting To An On-premise Server For Migration

In this Activity Guide, You will install Pritunl OpenVPN (This is different from our K21academy OpenVPN) to connect to our On-premise server. After connecting to Pritunl OpenVPN, you will be able to connect to our On-premise server that is our source, and then you can proceed with Lift and shift lab to migrate to the cloud.

Activity Guide XXI: Migrate (Lift & Shift) EBS R12 From On-premise To Oracle Cloud

Migration (Lift & Shift) is the process of migrating an On-Premise Oracle EBS R12 environment to the Cloud. This, in my view, is the most important Activity Guide i.e EBS Lift & Shift Migration that will help you earn a lot higher and grow quickly. 

We can move the on-premises instance to Cloud using the Cloud manager. The cloud manager is capable of creating an instance from the object storage backup. It uses a new backup utility which is known as EBS Cloud Backup Utility, as a standalone tool for taking EBS backup to object storage and needs to be run on the source environment.

Check, Oracle EBS (R12) On-Premise to Cloud Migration (Lift & Shift): 10 Things You Must Consider

Bonus Activity Guide XXII: EBS Provisioning on OCI Using Pre-Loaded Templates

In this Activity Guide, we cover how to create EBS 12.2.10version on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure using image available in Marketplace.

This provisioning is done without using EBS Cloud Manager. It uses Oracle Pre Loaded Image Templates loaded by Oracle and using that it will be provisioned on the compute instances.

Bonus Activity Guide XXIII: Configure SSL/TLS For Load Balancer In EBS

This activity guide cover steps to Configure Additional Components When Using Load Balancer as a Service (LBaaS)

If you have deployed your Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 or 12.1 environments using Load Balancer as a Service (LBaaS), we highly recommend that you perform the steps in this section to encrypt the inbound HTTP traffic with Transport Layer Security (TLS)

So these are the Activity Guides that one must perform to become an Oracle Cloud Apps DBA as the above guides make your learning & understanding the concepts of EBS (R12) on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure much easier.

We cover all these Guides in our Step by Step Training Program that will take you from complete Beginner to Cloud Apps DBA to Build, Manage & Secure Oracle E-Business Suite R12 on OCI by registering at Build, Manage & Migrate (Lift & Shift) EBS (R12) on OCI.

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