Provisioning WebLogic Server in less than 1 minute using Docker
We are going to demonstrate how to provision Oracle WebLogic Server in less than 1 minute Using Docker running on Ubuntu.
Prerequisites
To follow this tutorial, you will need Ubuntu 64-bit up and running. We will be using Ubuntu version 16.04 in our fancy VirtualBox sandbox machine. This is because Docker requires a 64-bit version of Ubuntu as well as a kernel version equal to or greater than 3.10.
1. Installing docker on Ubuntu:
#Add the GPG key for the official Docker repository to our system: sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://p80.pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 --recv-keys 58118E89F3A912897C070ADBF76221572C52609D #Add the Docker repository to apt sources: sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://apt.dockerproject.org/repo ubuntu-xenial main' sudo apt-get update #we make sure that we use Docker repo instead of default Ubuntu repo: sudo apt-cache policy docker-engine #installing Docker $ sudo apt-get install -y docker-engine
Verifying installation and displaying information about Docker:
$ docker images -a REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE hello-world latest 48b5124b2768 3 months ago 1.84kB $ docker run hello-world Hello from Docker! This message shows that your installation appears to be working correctly. #Other check commands $ sudo systemctl status docker $ docker info
2. Provisioning WebLogic Server Domain
Our docker is ready to roll so we navigate to docker hub website:
https://hub.docker.com/r/playniuniu/weblogic-domain
or simply go to https://hub.docker.com and search for “weblogic” docker images.
@ https://hub.docker.com/r/playniuniu/weblogic-domain we copy the following command:
docker run -d -p 8001:8001 –name=wlsadmin playniuniu/weblogic-domain:12.2.1.2 startWebLogic.sh
Run it and after a while (depends on your network speed) a brand new WebLogic Server domain is up and running:
$ docker run -d -p 8001:8001 --name=wlsadmin playniuniu/weblogic-domain:12.2.1.2 startWebLogic.sh Unable to find image 'playniuniu/weblogic-domain:12.2.1.2' locally 12.2.1.2: Pulling from playniuniu/weblogic-domain 8d30e94188e7: Pull complete 1d43e94144e5: Pull complete ... Status: Downloaded newer image for playniuniu/weblogic-domain:12.2.1.2
Voila! We can login to WLS Admin Console http://ubuntuhost:8001/console using credentials weblogic/welcome1 and check if managed server (AdminServer) is up.
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