Oracle Container Cloud Service (OCCS)

Docker has undergone a dramatic evolution in only the last couple of years. From virtually unknown in 2014, it still seemed to be a exotic, niche open source solution when WebLogic was certified on Docker in early 2015.

Nowadays this is different. End of 2016 it has become very common to explore new software by just running an official Docker image from Docker hub. CI / CD pipelines are often built on Docker for repeatability. Docker is one of the key building blocks for runtime environments of those wandering down the microservices alley.

However, you need much more than just a starting a Docker container or two. You need infrastructure, networking, private and public registries, containers have to be scaled and restarted if they fail. All this needs to be installed, configured, and operated. On premises this is not an easy task.

There is a huge difference between spinning up a Docker container and operating a Kubernetes cluster for enterprise critical applications 24/7 in production. So the the obvious choice is often the cloud with a PaaS based container cloud service.

Oracle Container Cloud Service (OCCS) is the newest addition in the Oracle Cloud portfolio. It was built to solve the issues discussed in this posting. The following webcast helps you to understand the key components of OCCS. If you follow it, you can have a worldwide monitoring of your own domain running in some 5 minutes on a hosted Docker container.

Those who know my WebLogic Distinctive Recipes book understand that I am not a big fan of those click here, screenshot, then click there, screenshot articles – therefore I created the webcast for you with a working example that is not already in OCCS. Make sure to read the OCCS documentation anyway.

Let me know if you like it!