OCI Fleet Application Management
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Fleet Application Management simplifies centralized management, IT automation, and full-stack patch compliance at scale for any technology deployed in OCI. With autodiscovery of software inventory and patch data, easy management with Fleets, and powerful IT automation with a catalog of prebuilt customizable Runbooks, the service enhances standardization, governance, and operational efficiency across the enterprise.
Why OCI Fleet Application Management?
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Accelerate full-stack patch compliance
Increase IT productivity and efficiency with a centralized solution that reduces complexity and management overhead for day-2 patch operations for any technology deployed on OCI.
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Reduce risk
Reduce risk by improving patch compliance at scale, IT processes’ standardization, and resiliency—enhancing your security posture across your cloud stack.
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Simplify operations at scale
Manage large-scale cloud resources as a group in an easy, centralized way. Simplify IT automation, resource management, scheduling, visibility, and patch operations across your entire footprint.
How OCI Fleet Application Management works for software patching
This diagram shows the conceptual flow of the service for software patching use cases. First, the customer creates a fleet that groups different OCI resources such as compute, middleware or databases. the service then autodiscovers the installed software on these resources along with identifying any available patches and checking against the compliance status of the installed components. Then, the customer selects the prebuilt runbook for the desired patch operations and can schedule it to run during a maintenance window, a recurring schedule, or trigger it on domains. This enables continuous software patch compliance across the customer's cloud footprint.
OCI Fleet Application Management enables full-stack software patching and compliance management at scale for any software deployed on OCI—including operating systems, database, middleware, or any third-party components in your stack, such as load balancers, gateways, and other technologies. Customers can reduce the complexity, effort, and cost of patch operations and centralized management of large-scale footprints—ensuring they are always up to date and compliant without having to do the heavy lifting.
Features and use cases of OCI Fleet Application Management
Easy management with Fleets
Organize thousands of cloud resources across your portfolio in hierarchical groupings that can then be easily provisioned, updated, governed, patched, managed, and reported on with a single click.
You can group resources based on environments, applications, products for patching, or custom tags to identify different business units, cost centers, or customers. You can also create Fleet-of-Fleets to cascade updates across nested groups.
Continuous compliance
Autodiscovery of the software inventory deployed in your fleets along with its patch compliance data, audit reports, and automatic drift detection help ensure that you’re always running the latest, most secure patch version. Discovery and governance of tenancy provisioning and service configuration are coming soon.
Runbooks and scheduler enable intuitive IT automation
Fleet provides out-of-the-box runbooks for patching Oracle technologies (WebLogic, Fusion Middleware, Oracle Database, Oracle Linux, and more), along with a library of customizable prebuilt runbook modules for common IT tasks and a powerful GUI. These enable customers to design and orchestrate patch operations or other IT automation that meet their specific needs. You can also connect your existing automation scripts or external systems involved in your processes. You can trigger runbooks based on governance policies, changes to the environment’s state, a recurring schedule, or a maintenance window.
Touchless patch management
Easily patch specific components, an entire stack, or roll out a patch across thousands of resources. Hardened processes, state management, and validation of the patch are handled automatically. You can schedule touchless patching to run during specific maintenance windows or trigger patching on demand to remediate compliance issues.
Work the way you like
Enable line-of-business, IT admins, or release managers to create and run patching via the GUI or work through API CLI. Easily connect your existing automation scripts, CI/CD processes, compliance policies, or other tooling.
Coming soon: Customers will be able to curate standardized runbooks and provisioning templates that are shared with specific teams in the organization. This enables line-of-business admins or other staff to take an active role in patching and operating their environments, without requiring senior IT expertise or coding experience—all while ensuring organizational policies and required processes are met.
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