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Oracle Linux and Oracle VM
VirtualBox: The Enterprise
Development Platform
Simon Coter
Product Management Director

Sergio Leunissen
VP

Oracle Linux & Virtualization

October 22, 2018

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#2 enterprise Linux provider

Shipping for more than 11 years

Powers Oracle Cloud & Engineered Systems

More than 60,000 enterprises supported Oracle Linux & VM:

Engineered for open cloud
Over 5 million Docker Hub pulls
Linux Foundation board member

Cloud Native Computing Foundation Platinum member

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A Truly Open Operating System
Oracle Linux is always free to use, free to distribute and free
to update

ISOs are publicly available, free errata

Kernel source code is published in a public GIT repository with all

patches and commit logs left intact

Truly open business practices

• Customers choose which systems to cover by support subscriptions
• No complicated migration from free to paid
• No restrictive contracts or agreements

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Oracle Linux for Developers
• Free and quick to get started
• Oracle Linux = Oracle Linux
• On development box
• On premises
• On Oracle Cloud
• Extensive tools for Development
• VirtualBox & Vagrant
• Programming languages for Web and API development
• Container technologies
• EPEL packages
• SDKs and CLIs for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
• Modules and drivers for Oracle developers

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 Private Cloud Public Cloud
Oracle VM VirtualBox
Free and open source, Cross-Platform Virtualization Software

• Available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Oracle Solaris

• Supports a wide range of guest platforms Vibrant Oracle Hybrid Cloud
• Easy-to-use graphical user interface Community Development &
Participation Support Download Dev &
• Powerful, scriptable command line interface & Test Deploy

• Import and export virtual machines using OVF/OVA standards

• Shared folders between guest and host
• Create a multi-platform test and development environment
• Extend the lifetime and usefulness of existing computers

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VirtualBox + Vagrant
• Command line interface
• Vagrant box
• Base image
• Vagrantfile
• Defines one or more VM instances
• vagrant up
1. Starts headless VM
2. Sets up port forwarding for NAT network
3. Mounts your project directory as a shared folder on /vagrant
4. Creates and inserts ssh keys for password-less authentication

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Vagrant
• A tool to manage development environments based on Virtual Machines
• Focused to create environments that are similar to Production
VMs/servers
• Supports multiple Hypervisors or Providers
• Environments are disposable
• Available for all x86 platforms (Linux, Windows and Mac OS X)
• Further details at: https://www.vagrantup.com
• Very useful utility for DevOps

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Finding Vagrant boxes
• Hashicorp Vagrant Cloud
• https://app.vagrantup.com/boxes/search
• Oracle Linux Vagrant Boxes
• https://yum.oracle.com/boxes

$ vagrant box add ol75oow https://yum.oracle.com/boxes/oraclelinux/ol75/ol75.box

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VirtualBox on GitHub: Oracle Linux 7.5 Image
Demo - https://asciinema.org/a/207808

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Creating a Vagrant Environment
• Project
• Vagrant root directory of your project
• Mounted as a shared folder inside your VM on /vagrant
• Vagrantfile
• Vagrantfile
• Describes the virtual machine(s) required for a project as well as how to configure and provision
these machines.
• If a developer checks out some code from version control which has a Vagrantfile, that developer
can simply run vagrant up to get a fully provisioned virtual environment to develop that
product.

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VirtualBox on GitHub: Vagrant Oracle images
https://github.com/oracle/vagrant-boxes

• Vagrant Images dedicated to Oracle

• Oracle Linux 6 (latest)
• Oracle Linux 7 (latest)
• Oracle Linux 7.6 & UEK5 Preview
• Oracle Database 11.2.0.2 (XE)
• Oracle Database 12.2.0.1 (Enterprise)
• Oracle Linux 7 with Docker
• Oracle Linux 7 LAMP stack
• Kubernetes Cluster on OL7
• …and working on others!

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VirtualBox on GitHub: Vagrant Oracle images
Demo - https://asciinema.org/a/207811

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Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL)
High quality set of additional packages for Enterprise Linux

• Based on upstream Fedora Special Interest Group

• Packages signed by Oracle

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Stable Upstream Releases of PHP, Node.js, Golang
• PHP
• Node.js
• Golang — soon

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Software Collections
Newer stable software for developers

• Latest version 3.0

• Software collections are primarily intended for development environments
• Install recent versions of Perl, PHP, or Python, NodeJS, Nginx, etc. without
risk of disrupting applications on the system that rely on different versions
of these components
• Covered under Oracle Linux Premier support
• Available on ULN and Oracle Linux yum server (yum.oracle.com)

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Oracle Container Runtime for Docker
• Docker version 18.03
• Multi-registry support (Preview feature)
• Oracle Container Registry
• Local registry
• Docker Hub or Docker Store

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Oracle Container Services for use with Kubernetes®
• Deploy, manage and scale containerized applications
• Kubernetes software
• Packaged for Oracle Linux
• Setup and configuration utilities
• Kubernetes Dashboard software
• Cluster backup and restore tools
• Integration testing for use with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
• Certified Kubernetes by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
• Latest version based on Kubernetes 1.9
• Preview version available based on Kubernetes 1.10

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Oracle Linux Cloud Native Environment
CNCF-based suite of software for Cloud Native Development

• Container Infrastructure
• Container Orchestration and Management
• Cloud Native Networking
• Cloud Native Storage
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery
• Observability and Diagnostics

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Oracle Linux for Database Developers

• Oracle 18c XE
• ??Oracle 18c EE on ULN
• Python: cx_Oracle
• Node.js: node-oracledb
• PHP: php-oci8
• Ruby: ruby-oci8
• All available on Oracle Linux yum server
• Go: TBD

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References for Oracle Linux, Vagrant and VirtualBox
https://blogs.oracle.com/scoter/oracle-linux-vagrant-and-virtualbox-documentation-references

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