Ansible OSB Role

Description

This is an Ansible role to install SQL*PLUS tool to connect to an Oracle database server.

Supported systems

• Debian 7/8
• Ubuntu Precise/Trusty
• EL 6/7

Role dependencies

• None.

Requirements

Software Requirements

• Ansible 1.9 or higher (can be easily installed via pip. E.g: sudo pip install ansible==1.9.2)
• Vagrant 1.7 or higher
• sshpass package which is needed by Ansible if you are using SSH authentication by password. On Ubuntu/Debian: $ sudo apt-get install sshpass
• Virtualbox

System requirements

• None.

Role Variables

• sqlplus_basic_rpm_package - RPM package including basic files required to run OCI, OCCI, and JDBC-OCI applications (default: oracle-instantclient12.1-basic-12.1.0.2.0-1.x86_64.rpm)
• sqlplus_bin_rpm_package - RPM package including additional libraries and executable for running SQL*Plus with instant client (default: oracle-instantclient12.1-sqlplus-12.1.0.2.0-1.x86_64.rpm)
• sqlplus_rpm_download_directory - Absolute path to directory where installation rpm files are copied (default: /srv/files/)
• sqlplus_home - Absolute path to sqlplus installation directory (default: /usr/lib/oracle/12.1/client64)
• sqlplus_basic_rpm_package_url - URL to download RPM from (default: undefined)
• sqlplus_bin_rpm_package_url - URL to download RPM from (default: undefined)
• proxy_env - Environment variables to proxy / noproxy RPM download (default: dummy_var: dummy_var)

Available tags

• None.

Local facts

• None.

Usage

Installation

First of all make sure you downloaded the required RPMs from oracle website:

• oracle-instantclient12.1-basic-12.1.0.2.0-1.x86_64.rpm
• oracle-instantclient12.1-sqlplus-12.1.0.2.0-1.x86_64.rpm

Now put the downloaded packages to the remote host so Ansible can see them (via the sqlplus_rpm_download_directory role parameter). By default, Ansible checks the rpm file inside /srv/files/ directory.

Test connection

Personally and for quick tests, I use the Docker image sath89/oracle-12c that brings up an Oracle 12c database server. All you need is to pull the image, create a local data directory and spin up an oracle-db container:

$ sudo docker pull sath89/oracle-12c:latest
$ sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/oracledb/data
$ sudo docker run --name oracle-db -d -p 8080:8080 -p 1521:1521 -v /var/lib/oracledb/data:/u01/app/oracle -e DBCA_TOTAL_MEMORY=1024 sath89/oracle-12c

To test the database connection:

$ export ORACLE_SID=xe.oracle.docker
$ sqlplus -L sys/oracle@<DB-SERVER-IP-ADDRESS>/xe.oracle.docker as sysdba

Connected to:
Oracle Database 12c Standard Edition Release 12.1.0.2.0 - 64bit Production

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Development and testing

Test with Vagrant

For quick tests, you can spin-up a VM using Vagrant. You maybe need to adapt the Vagrantfile to suit your environment (system, IP addresses, etc):

• Change the Vagrant box name in the Vagrantfile if needed.

• Create the virtual machine:

(host)$ vagrant up --no-provision

• Copy the RPM packages to the VM.

• Provision the virtual machine:

(host)$ vagrant provision

Run acceptance tests

Acceptance/Integration tests could be run against the role using the magic test-kitchen tool. All the written acceptance tests are in the ./test/integration/ directory.

The .kitchen.yml file describes the testing configuration and the list of tests suite to run. By default, your instances will be converged with Ansible and run in Vagrant virtual machines.

To list the instances:

$ kitchen list

Instance                    Driver   Provisioner      Verifier  Transport  Last Action
default-centos-7-x64        Vagrant  AnsiblePlaybook  Busser    Ssh        <Not Created>

To run the default test suite on a CentOS 7 platform, run the following:

$ kitchen test

Author

This role was created by Ahmed Bessifi, a DevOps enthusiast.