Enterprise Modules

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Overview

This module allows you to configure and manage an Oracle WebLogic or Fusion middleware stack. It is part of our family of Puppet modules to install, manage and secure Oracle WebLogic and Fusion Middleware with Puppet. Besides the wls_config module, this family also contains:

  • wls_install For installing an Oracle WebLogic and other Fusion products

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License

This is a commercially licensed module. But you can use the module on VirtualBox based development systems for FREE. You can request a FREE trial license here

Check the License for details.

Description

The wls_config module extends the Puppet language to contain types needed to create and manage the lifecycle of objects within your Oracle Weblogic and Fusion Middleware installation. Instead of writing complex WLST scripts, using this module, you can now define your WebLogic configuration in an easy declarative way.

The puppet wls_config module allows you to manage almost everything that is manageable in a WebLogic domain. For queue's and topics to datasources clusters and security policies. Here is a list of some of the objects you can manage with puppet when using this module:

Check here to see the full documentation for this module.

Setup

Requirements

The wls_config module requires:

  • Puppet module enterprisemodules-easy_type installed.
  • Puppet version 3.0 or higher. Can be Puppet Enterprise or Puppet Open Source
  • WebLogic 10g or higher
  • A valid Oracle Weblogic or Fusion license
  • A valid Enterprise Modules license for usage.
  • Runs on most Linux systems.
  • Runs on Solaris
  • Windows systems are NOT supported

We support WebLogic versions:

  • WebLogic 10g
  • WebLogic 11g
  • WebLogic 12.1.2
  • WebLogic 12.1.3
  • WebLogic 12.2.1.2
  • WebLogic 12.2.1.3
  • WebLogic 12.2.1.4
  • WebLogic 14.1.1.0

And Fusion versions:

  • WebLogic 10g
  • WebLogic 11g
  • WebLogic 12c ( 12.1.1, 12.1.2, 12.1.3, 12.2.1.2 12.2.1.3, 12.2.1.4)

Installing the wls_config module

To install these modules, you can use a Puppetfile

mod 'enterprisemodules/wls_config'               ,'3.0.x'

Then use the librarian-puppet or r10K to install the software.

You can also install the software using the puppet module command:

puppet module install enterprisemodules-wls_config

Usage

Building a total WebLogic or Fusion setup requires quite some work. To help you, we have built some examples. The repo contains a demonstration of a simple WebLogic installation.

Reference

Here you can find some more information regarding this puppet module:

Here are a related blog posts:

Some example code:

Limitations

This module runs on Solaris, AIX and most Linux versions. It requires a puppet version higher than 4. The module does NOT run on windows systems.