Oracle's Middleware as a Service (MWaaS) solution for enterprise private cloud provides a complete application development and deployment environment. It includes a complete runtime environment comprised of all services necessary to deploy and run an enterprise-class application, including services such as application hosting, persistence store, application integration and APIs that enable programmatic access to additional computing services that might be required by an application. Identity services are an example of APIs available within a PaaS environment. MWaaS facilitates cheaper and faster deployment of applications as developers need not deal with the complexities of the underlying hardware and software components.
Oracle recently published a cookbook for Middleware as a Service using Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c. This doc
ument explains the step-by-step instructions in provisioning a WebLogic domain using Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c . These steps include:
- Security Configuration for Named Credentials, Roles and Accounts for Cloud Management
- Using Out of Box WebLogic profiles shipped with Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c R2
- Customizing WebLogic domain creation procedures to your environment and business requirements
- Setting up the Middleware Zones
- Setting quota limits for each cloud management roles
- Definition of Service Templates to be used for middleware domain creation
- Configuring chargeback policies for your middleware cloud infrastructure