Oracle Analytics and AI

Mr. Thomas B. Zink

I install and maintain an Oracle Analytics Publisher that runs on Weblogic for the purposes of printing PDFs from APEX. It is nothing more than the PDF printer.

The current effort is to move as much infrastructure to a RKE2 Kubernetes cluster. Are there Helm charts available for this type of install? Does anyone have recommendations for Weblogic and OAS, APEX Tomcat server migration to Kubernetes?

I am interested in HOWTOs like oracle-base.com that include Kubernetes RKE2 instructions.

I am being told a Kubernetes install is better for all of our infrastructure and database but so far it seems to be getting more complex before it gets easier.

Gianni Ceresa

Hi,
I'm not a kubernetes user myself, but I can share what I have seen…

As far as I know, there isn't any Oracle resource for running Publisher (or OAS, which would give you Publisher) in kubernetes. I know Oracle (or some employees) has that internally, because a number of employees asked questions related to that over the years, but that's internal usage and I don't remember having seen public resources.

I believe there is an operator for WebLogic (and the FMW version) documented on GitHub (in an Oracle repository), but that isn't going to help you much as you will still be missing Publisher.

But it's pretty simple to have Publisher in a container, therefore you can still achieve your target, it will just require some more manual work and guessing (or just using some AI to try to generate things for you: sometime that approach works quite nicely).

I would say "a Kubernetes install is better" is a subjective opinion, because it is maybe easier to maintain, redeploy, scale, once you have everything ready. But as you point out, it will be a lot more complex to begin with, because there isn't an out-of-the-box ready to use solution (I believe some consulting companies have prepared that and they sell it, a number of years ago I heard of some offering like that, no idea if it still a thing).