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Creating a Custom Oracle SOA Cloud Service Instance

section 0Before You Begin

This tutorial shows you how to create a custom instance in Oracle SOA Cloud Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic and associate it with an existing Oracle Database Cloud Service deployment. The custom instance you create will have a 2-node WebLogic Server cluster on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic VMs, Oracle Traffic Director as a load balancer, with backup to object storage enabled.

This tutorial takes approximately 15 minutes to complete, excluding the wait time needed for provisioning to complete.

October 2018, Release 18.4.1

Background

The SOA Cloud Service environment provides Oracle SOA Suite versions 12.1.3 and 12.2.1.2 on a single virtual machine, Oracle WebLogic Server default configurations, simplified provisioning for a single node instance, self-management tools, and secure shell (SSH) access to the virtual machine. The environment also provides simplified node cluster provisioning; simplified configuration to preexisting DBaaS and SaaS environments; and cloud self-management tools for automated backup/recovery, patching, and scaling, local and central monitoring and management, centralized provisioning, comprehensive APIs, and upgrading.


What Do You Need?

section 1Launch the Service Creation Wizard

  1. Sign in to Oracle My Services application at https://cloud.oracle.com/en_US/sign-in .
  2. On the My Services Dashboard, locate the Storage tile and click its name.
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  3. If this tile is not visible, click Customize Dashboard.
  4. Record the value of the REST Endpoint. For example, https://foo.storage.oraclecloud.com/v1/MyService-bar. You will need this REST endpoint later when you configure backups.
  5. Click the Dashboard button at the top of the page.
  6. Locate the SOA tile. Click the Action menu Action Menu Icon, and then select Open Service Console.
  7. If this is the first time you have accessed SOA Cloud Service then you may be presented with a Welcome screen. If this happens then you can continue to the console by clicking Go to Console.
  8. Click Create Instance.

section 2Configure Basic Service Information

  1. Enter a unique Instance Name for your SOA Cloud Service instance. This tutorial uses the name MySOACS.
  2. If it is not configured by default, enter your email address in Notification Email.
  3. If the Region field is displayed, accept the default option No Preference.
  4. Leave the Tags field blank.
  5. Click Edit next to the SSH Public Key field.
  6. Select the radio button Create a New Key and then click Enter.
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  7. Click Download to save the file sshkeybundle.zip to your local machine.
  8. Click Done.
  9. Accept the default values for the remaining fields on this page:
    Field Value
    Software Release Oracle 12c, 12.2.1.2.0
    Metering Frequency Monthly - Note that this field does not appear on this page if you have a Universal Cloud Credits subscription.
    License Type Accept the default selection.

section 3Configure Service Details

  1. Click Next.
  2. Select the Service Type as SOA with SB & B2B Cluster..
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  3. In the WebLogic Access section, accept the default Compute Shape, OC1m (1 OCPU, 15.0 GB RAM).
  4. Select the required Cluster Size or accept the default value.
  5. Enter suitable values for the User Name and Password, and then reenter the password in the Confirm Password field.

section 4Configure the Database and Load Balancer

  1. In the Database Configuration section, use the Database Instance Name field to select an existing Oracle Database Cloud Service deployment not associated with any other Oracle SOA Cloud Service instance.
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  2. Enter values for the remaining fields in this section. If necessary, contact your database administrator:
    Field Value
    PDB Name If you do not want to use the default Pluggable Database (PDB) in this deployment, enter a different value
    Administrator User Name Enter a database user with system privileges, so that SOA Cloud Service can create the required schemas.
    Password Enter the password for this database user.
  3. In the Load Balancer section, for the Provision Local Load Balancer field, select the check box.
  4. Accept the default values for the remaining Load Balancer fields:
    Field Value
    Compute Shape OC3 (1 OCPU, 7.5GB RAM)
    Load Balancer Policy Least Connection Count

section 5Configure Backups

  1. For Cloud Storage Container, delete the name of the default container and enter the URL STORAGE_REST_ENDPOINT/MySOACS-Backup.
    Use the Oracle Storage Cloud REST endpoint that you identified earlier. For example: https://foo.storage.oraclecloud.com/v1/MyService-bar/MySOACS-Backup
  2. Enter the user name and password of an Oracle Cloud user with the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage Container Administrator role in the Storage User Name and Cloud Storage Password fields, respectively.
    The user name and password you used to log into Oracle Cloud will normally have the correct permissions required to create the container.
  3. Select the Create Cloud Storage Container checkbox.

section 6Complete the Service Creation

  1. Click Next.
  2. On the Confirmation page, review your selections and click Create.
    When you return to the Oracle SOA Cloud Service console, you will see your new service instance listed. It will have a status of "Creating Service".
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  3. Periodically refresh this page until the service instance creation is completed. 
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  4. You will also receive an email notification when the instance is ready.
  5. Click the instance name, MySOACS, to view the Instance Overview page.

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