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In this post I will show how to use Docker containers to create and scale a Kafka cluster, and also how to create, scale and move topics inside the cluster.

Warming up before AMIS 25th Conference event where I will be presenting with my friend and colleague Arturo Viveros (@gugalnikov) about Oracle SOA Suite provisioning, I want to share some practices that help us to provide Oracle Database instances between developers and improve our productivity.

Ansible is an automation tool that is recognized for be simple and powerful at the same time. From my experience, I can say this is mainly because of its scripting language: YAML, and its agentless architecture.

After find some limitations on building SOA Docker image using Dockerfile (as volume access, default size image) I researched on how to improve building process and I found Packer (from the same guy that creates Vagrant).

Yesterday, I released a new version (0.2.0) of my Oracle Fusion Middleware Cookbook hosted on Chef Supermarket

Cool news came from Oracle a couple of weeks ago: Oracle WebLogic Server is now supported on Docker!.

In this post, I will show how to create an AWS EC2 Instance with an Oracle BPM 12c Quickstart Domain created. And I will use previous post for related tasks.

Provisioning tools have change the way we create software environments: How much time we spend installing OS, databases, configuring platforms, applications? Now you can translate this steps into code, getting the software development benefits and challenges into infrastructure: versioning, reuse, continuous improvement.

I was creating AWS EC2 instances to install Oracle Fusion Middleware products, and I found an issue: How to download Oracle’s installers if I want to use installers on several instances? This could consume a lot of network bandwith and I want to make this process repeatable, so I don’t want to wait 1 hour each installation only downloading files.

I have some months working with Vagrant and I think it’s owesome! Integration with almost all kind of virtualization platforms: VirtalBox, VMware, Docker, AWS EC2, Hyper-V and so on. Also it’s able to use differente Provisioners: Chef, Puppet, bash, Docker, Ansible. I really like it.