Oracle Fleet Patching & Provisioning (FPP) for On-Prem & Cloud

How many are aware about Oracle FPP?  How many of you all using Oracle FPP for below pain areas improvement for Supported Customers ?  If answer is No than this knowledge sharing helps to all.

 Top pain areas :

What is FPP?

The source copy of an Oracle Software Home ( Oracle Database, Grid Infrastructure, or Exadata) is stored centrally in read-only format on an ACFS file system on the FPP Server

Fleet Patching and Provisioning (FPP) helps to resolve above painful areas on-premises  and can manage targets on the Oracle Cloud

• Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning has a rich set of features that helps keeping under control the lifecycle of the database fleet.

• From provisioning new clusters to patching and upgrading databases, all the common operations that are usually time-consuming and complex can now be achieved with a single command.

• This standardized way of managing the database lifecycle reduces dramatically the human labor and increases the efficiency and predictability of the operations.

• Both the powerful command line and the embedded RESTful APIs can be easily integrated with CI/CD pipelines, orchestration frameworks or configuration management tools that are broadly used by every company embracing the DevOps methodology.

 Key Benefits

• Enables and enforces standardization

• Simplifies provisioning, patching and upgrading

• Minimizes the impact and risk of maintenance

• Increases automation and reduces touch points

• Supports large scale deployments

Supported Platforms

• Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning supports a wide array of configurations and Oracle Database and Grid Infrastructure versions.

 licensing for  FPP:

• the good news is that you are licensed to use this product if your targets have Oracle RAC or Oracle RAC One licenses or have licensed the Enterprise Manager Database Lifecycle Management (DBLM) Pack for single-instance databases.

Architecture for FPP Server :

FPP uses out-of-place patching. You deploy a new working copy ( oracle_home) and move the database instances and new grid version to that working copy.

Fleet Patching & Provisioning | Oracle Official Public Contents of OFPP

Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning   Documentation

Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning (FPP) - Quick Start    Live labs with workshop step by step Oracle FPP configuration

Oracle FPP - 19c Technical Brief  PDF tech guide about oracle FPP highlights