oracle webcenter portal enterprise deployment lifecycle

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Oracle WebCenter Portal – Enterprise

Deployment Lifecycle Rich Nessel - Principal Product Manager

Christina Kolotouros - Product Management Director

ORACLE

PRODUCT

LOGO


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The following is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for

information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a

commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied

upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any

features or functionality described for Oracle’s products remains at the sole discretion

of Oracle.


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WebCenter Portal Enterprise Deployment

Deployment Planning – Considerations

• Functional requirements

– Select required components to support needed features

• Expected usage patterns

– Determine how many and size of clusters

• Authentication, SSO Solution


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Deployment Planning – Topology

• High availability (24x7)

• Resource availability

• Downtime tolerance

• Disaster recovery

** There is no documented path to go from simple/developer topology to an

EDG topology **


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Sample Topology Load Balancer

WebTier 1 WebTier 2

WebCenter Portal Cluster

Host 1 Host 2

WebCenter Content Cluster

Host 3 Host 4

RAC Database

Corporate

LDAP

Load Balancer


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WebCenter Portal Enterprise Deployment Disaster Recovery

Primary/Active Site Standby/Passive Site

Load Balancer

Database

Load Balancer

Database

Middle Tiers

Oracle Data Guard

Storage Replication

WAN

Middle Tiers

Firewall Firewall

Web Servers Web Servers

Shared Storage Shared Storage


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WebCenter Portal Deployment Lifecycle Development Environment

JDeveloper 2

JDeveloper 3

JDeveloper 1

Development Environment

Local Build File Based MDS

Developers build the application locally using a

file based MDS


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JDeveloper 2

JDeveloper 3

JDeveloper 1



Source Control Repository

Metadata and Code

Developers check applications in and out from a source

control system


reserved.


JDeveloper 2

JDeveloper 3

JDeveloper 1



Metadata and Code


Portlets

WLS

Portlet Producers are hosted on a

development server


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JDeveloper 2

JDeveloper 3

JDeveloper 1


Portlets


WLS

Metadata and Code


WebCenter Content Server (Development)

Content

WebCenter Content Server hosted on a

development server


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WebCenter Portal Deployment Lifecycle Build Environment

JDeveloper 2

JDeveloper 3

JDeveloper 1



Portlets

Content


WLS

Metadata and Code

Development Environment Build Environment

MDS

WLS

Policy Store


reserved.


JDeveloper 2

JDeveloper 3

JDeveloper 1



Portlets

Content


Build Script

WLS

Metadata and Code


MDS

WLS

EAR

Policy Store

Portal application EAR is built using scripts that make use of Ant, and ojdeploy


reserved.


JDeveloper 2

JDeveloper 3

JDeveloper 1



Portlets

Content


MDS

Policy Store

WLS

Build Script

EAR

WLS

Metadata and Code


Deploy & Config Script

EAR file is deployed using a WLST script


reserved.


JDeveloper 2

JDeveloper 3

JDeveloper 1



Portlets

Content


MDS

Policy Store

WLS

Build Script

EAR

WLS

Metadata and Code



Application uses development servers for portlet producers and

WebCenter Content Server


reserved.


JDeveloper 2

JDeveloper 3

JDeveloper 1



Portlets

Content


MDS

Policy Store

WLS

Build Script

EAR

WLS

Metadata and Code



Enables an automated nightly build environment


reserved.

WebCenter Portal Deployment Lifecycle Test Environment

Development Environment Build Environment Test Environment

JDeveloper 2

JDeveloper 3

JDeveloper 1



Portlets

Content


MDS

Policy Store

WLS

Build Script

EAR

WebCenter Content Server (Test)

EAR

MDS

Policy Store

WLS

EAR copied from Build

WLS

Metadata and Code


Portal application EAR file copied from the build instance


reserved.



JDeveloper 2

JDeveloper 3

JDeveloper 1



Portlets

Content


MDS

Policy Store

WLS

Build Script

EAR


EAR

MDS

Policy Store

WLS


WLS

Metadata and Code


Deploy& Config Script Portal application deployed to

test instance using same script that was used for the build instance deployment


reserved.



JDeveloper 2

JDeveloper 3

JDeveloper 1



Portlets

Content


MDS

Policy Store

WLS

Build Script

EAR


EAR

MDS

Policy Store

WLS


WLS

Metadata and Code


Deploy& Config Script

Service end points used by the portal application are updated

by the script to use services running on the test servers


reserved.



JDeveloper 2

JDeveloper 3

JDeveloper 1



Portlets

Content


MDS

Policy Store

WLS

Build Script

EAR


EAR

Archiver to move test content and web assets

MDS

Policy Store

WLS


WLS

Metadata and Code



Content stored in the development Content Server may be moved to the test Content Server instance using the archiver feature


reserved.



JDeveloper 2

JDeveloper 3

JDeveloper 1



Portlets

Content


MDS

Policy Store

WLS

Build Script

EAR


EAR

Archiver to move test content and web assets

MDS

Policy Store

WLS


WLS

Metadata and Code




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WebCenter Portal Deployment Lifecycle Stage/Production Diagram

Stage Environment

MDS

Policy Store

WLS

Stage is an active instance used to make changes to the portal content and structure, so the

production instance is read only


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EAR

Stage Environment

MDS

Policy Store

WLS

EAR Copied from Test

Deploy & Config Script Deployment is performed using

same script as the test instance and service end points are

changed to stage or production as appropriate

WebCenter Content Server has production content


reserved.



EAR

Stage Environment

MDS

Policy Store

WLS

(Test Content NOT Replicated)


Archiver to move web assets


Archiver is used to move the web assets, but not

the test content


reserved.


MDS

Policy Store

WLS


EAR

Stage Environment

MDS

Policy Store

WLS

Production Environment






reserved.


EAR

MDS

Policy Store

WLS


EAR

Stage Environment

MDS

Policy Store

WLS







EAR Copied from Stage

Deployment is performed using same script as the test instance and service

end points are changed to stage or production as appropriate



reserved.


EAR

MDS

Policy Store

WLS


EAR

Stage Environment

MDS

Policy Store

WLS



Content/Web Asset Replication







Upon approval content is replicated from stage to production using the

archiver feature


reserved.


EAR

MDS

Policy Store

WLS


EAR

Stage Environment

MDS

Policy Store

WLS



Metadata Replication

Content/Web Asset Replication







WebCenter Portal metadata is replicated from stage to production

using the WebCenter Portal Administration Console or a custom solution built using WLST commands


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