Who?

Mostly Ops...

I posit that we make the tool's GUI less focused on Oracle experts

EnvironMint

• Simple Java/Oracle management for non-experts
  • Deploy new envs
  • Perform standard maintenance tasks
  • Perform customer specific maintenance tasks
• Allow input from experts without needing to rely on them
• Facilitating Oracle and DevOps expertise collaboration

EnvironMint - random ideas

• Install whole suite at once
  • Chef Cookbook setup, no installer
  • RPM/Debs
• Free trial of unlicensed features
• Suite structure
  • Add a process supervisor
  • Add a tier 1
  • TLS (tier 1 as a terminator)
  • Single API root
    • http://x.envmint.io/API/{node,mintspec,drift,...}
    • Would need to design those endpoints...
• Everything can be automated - ie API for everything

EnvironMint - random ideas

• Inline mgmt within areas, less "admin area"
• Interface
  • / - System status (dashboard...)
    • Add a status function using mintspec
    • Aggregates:
      • Mintspec info, Drift info, SC status info
    • Links to:
      • Drift History: Drift reports
      • Compliance: Nodes (mintspec) state
        • Aggregate at an SC level?
      • Services: Status and deploy and mgmt
      • Global admin...

EnvironMint - random ideas

• Provision to ephemeral infra
  • Docker/VM/...
• Use for tutorials/demos
• Also use as a configuration method
  • Preconfigured with a DriftGuard agent
  • Tom creates and tells Jed details
  • Jed configures the sandbox to spec/standard
  • Jed tells Tom the sandbox can be "harvested"
  • Tom harvests the sandbox as new/updated service catalogue items

Sandbox

EnvironMint - random ideas

• Tweak/extend Mintspec (?) to act as a lighthearted alarming system?
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Alarming

Install: Tom

1. Provided with required artefact
   • Feels like a single script
2. Runs installer steps for EnvironMint...
   • Asks for licence and confirms desired features
   • A little sales-pitch-ish about features eg
   • Main installer installs and configures all deps
   • Option to get `customerX.environmint.io`
     • Let's Encrypt cert
     • Useful as an Apex record for internal?
     • Simplifies internal IT reqs?
   • Self bootstrapping Chef run

3. ↓

Install: Tom

3. Tell Tom some key details:
   • Urls
   • Possibly a demo access key? (for APIs)
   • Suggests a tutorial...
4. Tom starts doing the tutorial...
   1. Creates a Weblogic (and deploys a war?
   2. Scales it
   3. Applies a patch
   4. Rolls it out
   5. Changes some config
   6. Rolls it out
   7. Pushes it back into mainline?