Fleet Patching & Provisioning

Oracle Fleet Patching & Provisioning (FPP) is the recommended solution for performing lifecycle operations (provisioning, patching & upgrades) across entire Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC Database fleets and the default solution used for Oracle Database Cloud services.

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Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning (FPP)

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Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning 26ai: Technical Presentation

Automating out-of-place patching of the Oracle Database and Exadata Stack

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Oracle Fleet Patching & Provisioning by Example

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Oracle Fleet Patching & Provisioning Documentation

The comprehensive documentation for Oracle Fleet Patching & Provisioning (FPP).

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Introduction and Technical Overview

Introduction and technical overview of Oracle Fleet Patching & Provisioning (FPP) is the best place to discover and dive into the technical details of how FPP can simplify your Oracle AI Database, Grid Infrastructure, and Exadata Software patching orchestration can be automated, simplified, and standardized.

Description & Key Benefits

Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning has a rich set of features that help keep the lifecycle of the database fleet. From provisioning new clusters to patching and upgrading databases, all the common operations that are usually time-consuming and complex can now be achieved with a single command.

This standardized way of managing the database lifecycle dramatically reduces human labor and increases the efficiency and predictability of operations. Both the powerful command line and the embedded RESTful APIs can be easily integrated into CI/CD pipelines, orchestration frameworks, or configuration management tools widely used by companies embracing the DevOps methodology.

Key Benefits:

Enables and enforces standardization
Simplifies provisioning, patching, and upgrading
Minimizes the impact and risk of maintenance
Integrates with Oracle Update Advisor, providing optimized software health recommendations
Increases automation and reduces touch points
Supports large-scale deployments

Fleet Patching & Provisioning Architecture Principles

Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning (FPP) is a feature of Oracle Grid Infrastructure (GI), hence, the components that form the FPP Server are managed automatically by GI.

FPP maintains a space-efficient repository of software, more precisely ‘gold images’ – standardized software homes that can be provisioned to any number of target machines.

Gold images can be organized in to series, allowing you to create groupings that track the evolution of a release, with different series for different tailored solutions such as Database patch bundles for specific applications.

Flexible Supported Products and Architecture

Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning supports a wide array of configurations and Oracle AI Database and Grid Infrastructure versions and OS platforms

Oracle AI Database (Single instance and RAC) - 11g through 26ai
Oracle Grid Infrastructure- 11g through 26ai
OS Linux, AIX, and Solaris
Multitenant or Non-CDB