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Automating Oracle GoldenGate Patching with Ansible

🔄 Automating Oracle GoldenGate Patching with Ansible

Maintaining up-to-date Oracle GoldenGate environments is crucial for ensuring optimal performance and stability. Manual patching can be error-prone and time-consuming, especially across multiple nodes. This blog post demonstrates how to automate the Oracle GoldenGate patching process using a simple yet powerful Ansible playbook. 🚀

📦 Playbook Overview

This Ansible playbook handles:

  • Stopping GoldenGate processes gracefully
  • Transferring and extracting patch and OPatch files
  • Backing up the existing OPatch utility
  • Applying the patch silently
  • Restarting the GoldenGate processes

🔧 Configuration Parameters

Below are the customizable variables in the playbook:

oracle_home: /opt/app/ogg21c
patch_dir: /acfs01/GG_software/patching
patch_zip: p37071355_2116000OGGRU_Linux-x86-64.zip
opatch_zip: p6880880_190000_Linux-x86-64.zip
patch_user: ggudb
patch_group: oinstall

🛠️ Key Tasks Breakdown

1️⃣ Setting Environment

Defines environment variables like ORACLE_HOME and updates PATH to include OPatch and GoldenGate binaries.

2️⃣ Stopping GoldenGate

Gracefully stops all GoldenGate processes using ggsci. Errors are ignored if processes are already down.

3️⃣ Preparing Patch Files

Ensures the patch directory exists and that the patch and OPatch zip files are present. If not, it copies them from a source directory.

4️⃣ Unzipping and Backup

The patch zip is extracted, and the current OPatch directory is backed up to OPatch_bkp.

5️⃣ Updating OPatch

Unzips the new OPatch utility into the Oracle Home.

6️⃣ Patch Conflict Check

Runs a conflict check against the Oracle Home before applying the patch.

7️⃣ Applying the Patch

Executes opatch apply -silent to apply the patch non-interactively.

8️⃣ Validating Patch

Prints the output of opatch lsinventory to verify the patch has been successfully applied.

9️⃣ Restarting GoldenGate

Starts all GoldenGate processes again using ggsci.

✅ Final Thoughts

This automation not only reduces manual effort but also helps enforce consistency and repeatability across environments. You can easily integrate this into your CI/CD pipeline or scheduled patch cycles for seamless updates. 🧠

Pro Tip 💡: Always test your playbook in a staging environment before deploying it in production.

📁 GitHub Repository

You can access the full Ansible playbook for Oracle GoldenGate patching on GitHub:

👉 View on GitHub: Saravananlokesh/Ansible - Oracle_Patching

Feel free to fork, modify, and contribute! 👨‍💻👩‍💻

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