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Oracle JET Web Applications – Automating Build, Package and Deploy (to Application Container Cloud) using a Docker Container by Lucas Jellema

Posted: December 9, 2018 in Cloud, JDeveloper & ADF
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The essential message of this article is the automation for Oracle JET application of the flow from source code commit to a running application on Oracle Application Container Cloud, as shown in this picture:

I will describe the inside of the “black box” (actually light blue in this picture) where the build, package and deploy are done for an Oracle JET application.

The outline of the approach: a Docker Container is started in response to the code commit. This container contains all tooling that is required to perform the necessary actions including the scripts to actually run those actions. When the application has been deployed (or the resulting package is stored in an artifact repository) the container can be stopped. This approach is very clean – intermediate products that are created during the build process simply vanish along wih the container. A fresh container is started for the next iteration.

Note: the end to end build and deploy flow takes about 2 to 3 minutes on my environment. That obviously would be horrible for a simple developer round trip, but is actually quite acceptable for this type of ‘formal’ release to the shared cloud environment. This approach and this article are heavily inspired by this article (Deploy your apps to Oracle Cloud using PaaS Service Manager CLI on Docker) on Medium by Abhishek Gupta (who writes many very valuable articles, primarily around microservices and Oracle PaaS services such as Application Container Cloud).

Note: this article focuses on final deployment of the JET application to Application Container Cloud. It would however be quite simple to modify (in fact to simplify)the build container to not deploy the final ZIP file to Application Container Cloud, but instead push the file to an artifact repository or deploy to some other type of runtime platform. It would not be very hard to take the ZIP file and create a fresh Docker Container with that file that can be deployed on Kubernetes Cluster or any Docker runtime such as Oracle Container Cloud. Read the complete article here.

 

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Say Hello to Red Samurai Contextual Chatbot with TensorFlow Deep Neural Network Learning by Andrejus Baranovskis

Posted: December 7, 2018 in Cloud, Mobile
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We are building our own enterprise chatbot. This chatbot helps enterprise users to run various tasks – invoice processing, inventory review, insurance cases review, order process – it will be compatible with various customer applications. Chatbot is based on TensorFlow Machine learning for user input processing. Machine learning helps to identify user intent, our custom algorithm helps to set conversation context and return response. Context gives control over  sequence of conversations under one topic, allowing chatbot to keep meaningful discussion based on user questions/answers. UI part is implemented in two different versions – JET and ADF, to support integration with ADF and JET applications.

Below is the trace of conversations with chatbot:

User statement Ok, I would like to submit payment now sets context transaction. If word payment is entered in the context of transaction, payment processing response is returned. Otherwise if there is no context, word payment doesn’t return any response. Greeting statement – resets context.

Intents are defined in JSON structure. List of intents is defined with patterns and tags. When user types text, TensorFlow Machine learning helps to identify pattern and it returns probabilities for matching tags. Tag with highest probability is selected, or if context was set – tag from context. Response for intent is returned randomly, based on provided list. Intent could be associated with context, this helps to group multiple related intents: Read the complete article here.

 

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TechExchange – Using SMS Channels with Oracle Intelligent Bots by: Frank Nimphius

Posted: December 6, 2018 in Cloud, Mobile
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Using SMS is a very convenient way to communicate with someone these days and most people prefer to use SMS instead of email. SMS also gives you a history of the conversation while, for example, the context of a phone call can be easily forgotten if you don’t take notes.

In the same way that you text someone these days, you could also apply the same idea to business communications. The convenience, flexibility and speed of SMS can dramatically improve customer service. On top of that, several business tasks could be easily automated. Just imagine that you can get the status of something you order without waiting in line or having to download a particular mobile app by just texting the business’ phone number.

Having the capability of serving your users using SMS with an Intelligent Bot performing the interactions is the exact scenario we are going to explore in this article. Read the complete article here.

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First Step in Training Your Bot by Grant Ronald

Posted: December 5, 2018 in Cloud, Mobile
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The key to building a successful chatbot is to ensure that the bot and the user can have a conversation that both sides understand.

How well the bot understands the conversation depends in part on the quality and amount of end user utterance data. In Oracle Intelligent Bots, sample utterances define a base set of phrases (which would be regarded as typical phrases for that intent) that are used to train the bot to resolve user intent.

In this article we offer some general guidance for designing the utterances for your intents, with specific attention to the case when you do not have access to a set of actual end user utterances. Read the complete article here.

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WebLogic Server Kubernetes Operator by: Monica Riccelli

Posted: December 1, 2018 in Cloud, WebLogic
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We are pleased to announce the release and open sourcing of the Technology Preview version of the Oracle WebLogic Server Kubernetes Operator! We are releasing this Operator to GitHub for creating and managing a WebLogic Server 12.2.1.3 domain on Kubernetes. We are also publishing a blog that describes in detail how to run the Operator, how to stand up one or more WebLogic domains in Kubernetes, how to scale up or down  a WebLogic cluster manually or automatically using the WebLogic Diagnostics Framework (WLDF) or Prometheus, how the Operator manages load balancing for web applications deployed in WebLogic clusters, and how to provide integration for managing Operator logs through ElasticSearch, logstash and Kibana.

A Kubernetes Operator is "an application specific controller that extends the Kubernetes API to create, configure, and manage instances of complex applications".

We are adopting the Operator pattern and using it to provide an adapter to integrate WebLogic Server and Kubernetes, allowing Kubernetes to serve as a container infrastructure hosting WebLogic Server instances. And so the WebLogic Server Kubernetes Operator is an operator that extends Kubernetes to create, configure, and manage a WebLogic domain. Read the complete article here.

 

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Oracle Management Cloud – Security Monitoring & Analytics by Michel Schildmeijer

Posted: November 30, 2018 in Cloud
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I’ve become a huge fan of the Oracle Management Cloud. Why? Because Oracle has broaden it’s limit and the OMC doesn’t just monitor Oracle based systems and applications, it has plugins for many non Oracle technologies, which makes the OMC very flexible and Enterprise worthy to be used as a complete solution for monitoring.

Security Monitoring and Analytics ( SMA)

Oracle also realized customers have great concerns about security in general but even more in the cloud, so they’ve put up a service in the cloud which has really powerful capabilities.

One of these powerful modules inside the Management Cloud is the Security Monitoring & Analystics, or SMA. With this module any SIEM or SOC can detect, identify and monitor the following:

  • Securiity threats from in and outside the company
  • Fraud detection
  • Compliancy violations
Inside SMA

When you are in SMA it pretty much look like the other OMC components, but it has it’s focus on security. Entering the first dashboard you can see immediately an overview of the activity of you users and their possible risky actionsWhen you login into OMC, you can click on the SMA module if you have the proper cloud subscriptions

Inhere you will start in the main SMA landing page showing the “Users” Dashboard, but you can configure dashboards for yourself if you want.In this page you see:

1. Users – shows the total number of risky users

2. Threats – shows total, critical, high, medium and low risk threats

3. Assets – shows the total number of risky assetsClicking on the threats you’ll can get more details on persons actions which came out of the analysis of the identity management logs or via user data upload. You can see the company, manager, wand specific user details and status such as lockouts, locations, email adresses and so on.To look down deeper you can identify a kill chain. A kill chain is a series of executions which might lead into some kind of destruction or illegal access/actions. Read the complete article here.

 

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Automate the Docker Build for a Microservices app and deploy to the Oracle Container Cloud Service by Carlos Rodriguez Iturria

Posted: November 29, 2018 in Cloud, WebLogic
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In a previous series of blog posts titled Exploring Github DockerHub and OCCS I walked through how to setup your development environment, install Docker, create a git project, link Docker Hub and GitHub accounts, trigger a build of a docker image on Docker Hub and then deploy and run the docker image using the Oracle Container Cloud Service.

In this blog I wanted to do something similar but this time focus on a more simplified process so that a less technical user could follow the steps without the need for a development environment. The way I have structured this post mans that you can follow every step using a web browser. I have attempted to focus more on consuming the dockerised application that a developer has already built. For the purpose of this exercise I am using the example Medical Records application that some of you may be familiar with from some of my previous blog posts. For those not familiar with the application, it consists of a Node.js web application that interacts with a MongoDB database. The web application surfaces a number of REST APIs (eg Get / POST Patient , GET / POST Physician, GET/POST Observations etc), and uses Swagger UI so that the REST APIs can be quickly interacted with by the end user.

If you want to follow the steps in this blog post you will need a login for GitHub and Docker Hub and also a subscription or trial account for the Oracle Cloud in order to use the Oracle Container Service Classic (OCCS). Read the complete article here.

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