The DOAG 2021 conference took place November 16-18. This is the long-running annual event organized by the German Oracle technology user community — one of the largest in the world. Due to the pandemic, the 2021 event was virtual. There is always some Java-related content in the event, including on Jakarta EE, WebLogic, Coherence, and Helidon. I delivered two talks on Jakarta EE, WebLogic, and Azure.
Running WebLogic on Azure Kubernetes and Virtual Machines
On the second day of the conference, I had the relatively rare opportunity to deliver a talk titled “Running WebLogic on Azure Kubernetes and Virtual Machines”. The material covers the key work Microsoft and Oracle is doing to power WebLogic on Azure. The work includes tools, solutions, guides, samples, and scripts to fully enable WebLogic on both Azure Virtual Machines as well as the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The solutions support simple use cases such as easily creating a single working WebLogic instance. They also support common use cases such as clustering, load-balancing, failover, disaster recovery, database connectivity, caching via Coherence, consolidated logging via ELK, and Azure Active Directory integration. The introductory session includes demos for VMs and AKS. I also cover the longer-term roadmap for WebLogic on Azure. The slides for the talk are available on SpeakerDeck.