Over the last couple of weeks, a few of us have been working on some new hands on lab content for Oracle Solaris 11, and we've delighted to announce the return of the OTN Virtual Sys Admin day, on July 15th at 9am PT.
This time we're taking the approach of a 3 part lab in which we build up a nice example of a typical deployment using Wordpress, MySQL, Oracle Solaris Zones and ZFS for a multi-tiered application. We'll also look at how we can monitor this application at a very basic level. We will also look briefly at packaging for Oracle Solaris 11 using IPS.
| Title | Abstract |
|---|---|
| Oracle Solaris 11 Feature Map and Lab Agenda | In the opening Oracle Solaris hands-on-lab session we will discuss the most important Oracle Solaris 11 features and how they work together to enable modern virtualization and cloud computing capabilities. This lab will be divided into 3 parts where we will build a secure, multi-level application deployed using virtualization capabilities included in the operating system. We will also demonstrate how to monitor this application and manage system resources appropriately. This lab will look at deploying Wordpress using Apache as the web server and MySQL as the database, and the Oracle Solaris ZFS file system as the underlying storage layer. We recommend that participants attend all parts to this lab in order. |
| Part I: Storage and Web Layers | In the first Oracle Solaris hands-on-lab-session, we will use the ZFS file system to set up storage for our application and introduce participants to Oracle Solaris Zones as our primary virtualization environment for our web, database and application layers. We will also cover network virtualization to create virtualized network interfaces and switches to communicate between our virtualized environments. |
| Part II: Database and Application Layers | In the second Oracle Solaris hands-on-lab session, we will take advantage of Oracle Solaris Zone cloning to rapidly provision new virtualized environments for our database and application layers, and demonstrate how our application can easily be secured and protected using the Immutable Zones feature of Oracle Solaris Zones providing a read-only environment. |
| Part III: Resource Monitoring and Packaging | In the final Oracle Solaris hands-on-lab session, we will demonstrate how to monitor and manage virtualized resources using various integrated system commands available on the system. We will also create and publish a new software package for a simple monitoring script using the Image Packaging System (IPS). |
If you've attended any of the previous virtual hands on lab events and been bored by the same content, there's a simple bit of pre-work involved (but that's really just about installing Oracle Solaris 11 on your system using Oracle VM VirtualBox, or any other means). So go register now!