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Upgrading MySQL back-end for Gitea

These days we are working on upgrade procedures of our infrastructure components on Kubernetes. One of them is Gitea, as a back-end…

Jan 16

Upgrading MySQL back-end for Gitea

Jan 16

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A new Oracle Linux 9 Vagrant box

This article is a rewrite of my older article Oracle Linux 7 Update 5 is out: time to create a new Vagrant Base Box.

Dec 13, 2024

A new Oracle Linux 9 Vagrant box

Dec 13, 2024

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Script your way into a fresh Gitea on K8S

Now, this may sound as a crash-course in hacking. But, it’s not exactly. In my current task, I created a bootstrap that installs…

Nov 11, 2024

Script your way into a fresh Gitea on K8S

Nov 11, 2024

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My Seemless Linux Desktop using VirtualBox, Vagrant, MobaXterm and TotalCommander

Years ago I played around with VMWare Unity Mode in VMWare player or VirtualBox’s Seemless mode. In those modes you start an application on…

Jun 20, 2024

My Seemless Linux Desktop using VirtualBox, Vagrant, MobaXterm and TotalCommander

Jun 20, 2024

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Force delete Kubernetes namespace

Introduction

May 8, 2024

Force delete Kubernetes namespace

May 8, 2024

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Ensure having a Rancher Admin

This week I was struggling with Rancher, ending up cleaning the whole lot up and re-installing it.

Mar 1, 2024

Ensure having a Rancher Admin

Mar 1, 2024

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Install/Upgrade scripts for K8S CLIs

As you may know, I work with a Linux VM to do my daily work. In my previous article, I wrote about how I made it even more flexible.

Jan 31, 2024

Jan 31, 2024

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My even more flexible Vagrant IDE

You may know that I have improved my Vagrant/VirtualBox projects on a regular basis. One of those is my Oracle Linux 8 Develop project…

Jan 24, 2024

My even more flexible Vagrant IDE

Jan 24, 2024

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My boxes in the Vagrant Cloud

This article was published on blog.darwin-it.nl in 2019. I keep referencing to that and other articles from time to time. Some of them have…

Jan 15, 2024

My boxes in the Vagrant Cloud

Jan 15, 2024

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And now: let’s spin up a Vagrant Kubernetes Cluster

It has already been a few months since I wrote about a Kubernetes-related subject. It was about using Docker as a K8S Container Runtime. It…

Oct 5, 2023

And now: let’s spin up a Vagrant Kubernetes Cluster

Oct 5, 2023

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Using Apache ANT to find DB Object usages

This January, I came up with Scan your SOA Suite JCA Files, where I explained how to use Apache ANT to find all your JCA files and fetch…

Jun 29, 2023

Using Apache ANT to find DB Object usages

Jun 29, 2023

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Oracle SQL With Function clause

It’s been around for a while: the with-clause in Oracle SQL. And indeed, I used it in the past. The with clause is very useful to…

Jun 15, 2023

Jun 15, 2023

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A crash-course Object Oriented Pl/SQL

Introduction

May 15, 2023

A crash-course Object Oriented Pl/SQL

May 15, 2023

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Docker as a K8S Container Runtime

My previous story was about Modularizing Multi-machine Vagrant projects, and my first article in creating a Multi-Node Kubernetes cluster…

May 11, 2023

May 11, 2023

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Modularizing Multi-machine Vagrant projects

I’ve been studying for my Certified Kubernetes for Admins exam for a few months. For this, I want to practice creating a Kubernetes cluster…

Mar 16, 2023

Modularizing Multi-machine Vagrant projects

Mar 16, 2023

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Create the SOA/BPM Demo User Community, with just WLST.

With Fusion Middleware 12c, Oracle introduced another topology for JDeveloper to develop SOA, BPM, and OSB projects. The SOA and BPM…

Feb 21, 2023

Create the SOA/BPM Demo User Community, with just WLST.

Feb 21, 2023

WGet Weave to kubectl apply

A cryptic title, isn’t it?

Jan 26, 2023

Jan 26, 2023

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Solving URL protocol exceptions with latest JDK updates

Lately, I helped a customer with problems with a Fusion Middleware deployment. To compare their installation with a default one, I created…

Jan 23, 2023

Jan 23, 2023

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Scan your SOA Suite JCA Files

Many customers have a large code base on SOA Suite Projects. Typically, those projects distribute messages over different technologies. For…

Jan 18, 2023

Scan your SOA Suite JCA Files

Jan 18, 2023

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Set your Oracle FusionMiddleware 12c ServerGroups properly

Why is installing Oracle software so difficult, you may ask? Well, you might know our Soccer-coach Louis van Gaal. He could state: “It is…

Jan 10, 2023

Set your Oracle FusionMiddleware 12c ServerGroups properly

Jan 10, 2023

Martien van den Akker

Martien van den Akker

Technology Architect at Oracle Netherlands. The views expressed on this blog are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Oracle

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