OCI DevOps Pro case studies
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The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure DevOps Professional credential is an Oracle Certification exam, listed by Oracle University under the exam code 1Z0-1107-23. Oracle University describes Oracle Certification as a way to "Build your expertise in AI, cloud, data, and business applications" and to "Earn a recognized credential that can help validate in-demand skills and support your career growth, with hands-on practice in real-world scenarios through our specialized training and preparation courses." The credential therefore targets cloud engineers, DevOps engineers, release engineers, and platform administrators who build and operate delivery pipelines on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and it is also relevant to partners who must demonstrate validated skills to clients. The OCI DevOps Pro case studies are 5 cases and about 4,161 words.
1Private Build Runner for On-Premises Integration Tests
Meridian Retail runs an OCI DevOps project in the Frankfurt region. Its Java build pipeline has three consecutive managed build stages - unit tests, integration tests, and package/push - and publishes to an OCIR repository.
932 words, about 5 min2Zero-Downtime OKE Release with a Fifteen-Minute Observation Window
Northwind Pay runs its payment API on OKE in Ashburn: 12 pods across 3 nodes, fronted by an OCI load balancer, roughly 2,400 requests per second at peak. Releases go out twice weekly through an OCI DevOps deployment pipeline that applies Kubernetes manifests stored as a versioned artifact.
844 words, about 4 min3Tag Drift Between Dev, Stage and Prod
Argo Logistics deploys one service to dev, stage and prod from a single OCI DevOps project in Phoenix. A build pipeline builds phx.ocir.io/argolog/api and pushes two tags: latest and $BUILD ID.
829 words, about 4 min4Autoscaling Instances Revert to the Previous Release
Corvus Health runs a patient portal on 8 Compute instances behind an OCI load balancer, spread 3/3/2 across three ADs in the Ashburn region. An instance pool with autoscaling (min 6, max 14, CPU target 60%) adds capacity during clinic hours.
669 words, about 3 min5Trigger Noise, Shared Secrets and Silent Failures Across Nine Services
Vela Media has 40 developers, 12 repositories in OCI DevOps code repositories, 9 build pipelines and one shared production deployment pipeline, all in the Frankfurt region. Three problems surfaced in one sprint review.
887 words, about 4 min