Managing Oracle Autonomous Container Databases on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure

Oracle Database Operator for Kubernetes (OraOperator) includes the Oracle Autonomous Container Database Controller. Autonomous Container Database is one of the resources of Oracle Autonomous Database dedicated Exadata infrastructure feature. You can create multiple Autonomous Container Database resources in a single Autonomous Exadata VM Cluster resource, but you must create at least one before you can create any Autonomous Databases.

Before you use the Oracle Database Operator for Kubernetes (the operator), ensure your system meets all of the Oracle Autonomous Database (ADB) Prerequisites ADB_PREREQUISITES.

As indicated in the prerequisites (see above), to interact with OCI services, either the cluster has to be authorized using Principal Instance, or using the API Key Authentication by specifying the configMap and the secret under the ociConfig field.

Required Permissions

The opeartor must be given the required type of access in a policy written by an administrator to manage the Autonomous Container Databases. See Create an Autonomous Container Database for the required policies.

The permission to view the workrequests is also required, so that the operator will update the resources when the work is done. See Viewing Work Requests for sample work request policies.

Supported Features

After the operator is deployed, choose one of the following operations to create an AutonomousContainerDatabase custom resource for Oracle Autonomous Container Database in your cluster.

Provision an Autonomous Container Database
Bind to an existing Autonomous Container Database

After you create the resource, you can use the operator to perform the following tasks:

Change the display name of an Autonomous Container Database
Restart/Terminate an Autonomous Container Database
Delete the resource from the cluster

Provision an Autonomous Container Database

Follow the steps to provision an Autonomous Database that will map objects in your cluster.

Get the Compartment OCID.

Login Cloud Console and click Compartment.

Click on the compartment name where you want to create your database, and copy the OCID of the compartment.
Get the AutonomousExadataVMCluster OCID.

Login Cloud Console. Go to Autonomous Database, and click the Autonomous Exadata VM Cluster under the Dedicated Infrastructure.

Click on the name of the Autonomous Exadata VM Cluster, and copy the OCID.

Add the following fields to the AutonomousContainerDatabase resource definition. An example .yaml file is available here: config/samples/acd/autonomouscontainerdatabase_create.yaml

Attribute	Type	Description	Required?
`spec.compartmentOCID`	string	The OCID of the compartment of the Autonomous Container Database.	Yes
`spec.autonomousExadataVMClusterOCID`	string	The OCID of the Autonomous Exadata Infrastructure.	Yes
`spec.displayName`	string	The user-friendly name for the Autonomous Container Database. The name does not have to be unique.	Yes
`spec.patchModel`	string	The Database Patch model preference. The following values are valid: RELEASE_UPDATES and RELEASE_UPDATE_REVISIONS. Currently, the Release Update Revision maintenance type is not a selectable option.	No
`spec.freeformTags`	dictionary	Free-form tags for this resource. Each tag is a simple key-value pair with no predefined name, type, or namespace. For more information, see Resource Tag. Example: `freeformTags:` `key1: value1` `key2: value2`	No
`spec.ociConfig`	dictionary	Not required when the Operator is authorized with Instance Principal. Otherwise, you will need the values from the Authorized with API Key Authentication section.	Conditional
`spec.ociConfig.configMapName`	string	Name of the ConfigMap that holds the local OCI configuration	Conditional
`spec.ociConfig.secretName`	string	Name of the K8s Secret that holds the private key value	Conditional

---
apiVersion: database.oracle.com/v1alpha1
kind: AutonomousContainerDatabase
metadata:
  name: autonomouscontainerdatabase-sample
spec:
  compartmentOCID: ocid1.compartment... OR ocid1.tenancy...
  autonomousExadataVMClusterOCID: ocid1.autonomousexainfrastructure...
  displayName: newACD
  ociConfig:
    configMapName: oci-cred
    secretName: oci-privatekey

Apply the yaml:

kubectl apply -f config/samples/acd/autonomouscontainerdatabase_create.yaml
autonomouscontainerdatabase.database.oracle.com/autonomouscontainerdatabase-sample created

Bind to an existing Autonomous Container Database

Other than provisioning a container database, you can bind to an existing Autonomous Container Database in your cluster.

Clean up the resource you created in the earlier provision operation:

kubectl delete adb/autonomouscontainerdatabase-sample
autonomouscontainerdatabase.database.oracle.com/autonomouscontainerdatabase-sample deleted

Copy the Autonomous Container Database OCID from Cloud Console.

Add the following fields to the AutonomousContainerDatabase resource definition. An example .yaml file is available here: config/samples/acd/autonomouscontainerdatabase_bind.yaml

Attribute	Type	Description	Required?
`spec.autonomousContainerDatabaseOCID`	string	The OCID of the Autonomous Container Database you want to bind (create a reference) in your cluster.	Yes
`spec.ociConfig`	dictionary	Not required when the Operator is authorized with Instance Principal. Otherwise, you will need the values from the Authorized with API Key Authentication section.	Conditional
`spec.ociConfig.configMapName`	string	Name of the ConfigMap that holds the local OCI configuration	Conditional
`spec.ociConfig.secretName`	string	Name of the K8s Secret that holds the private key value	Conditional

---
apiVersion: database.oracle.com/v1alpha1
kind: AutonomousContainerDatabase
metadata:
  name: autonomouscontainerdatabase-sample
spec:
  autonomousContainerDatabaseOCID: ocid1.autonomouscontainerdatabase...
  ociConfig:
    configMapName: oci-cred
    secretName: oci-privatekey

Apply the yaml.

kubectl apply -f config/samples/acd/autonomouscontainerdatabase_bind.yaml
autonomouscontainerdatabase.database.oracle.com/autonomouscontainerdatabase-sample created

Change the display name

Note: this operation requires an AutonomousContainerDatabase object to be in your cluster. This example assumes the provision operation or the bind operation has been completed, and the operator is authorized with API Key Authentication.

You can change the display name of the database by modifying the value of the displayName, as follows:

An example YAML file is available here: config/samples/acd/autonomouscontainerdatabase_change_displayname.yaml

---
apiVersion: database.oracle.com/v1alpha1
kind: AutonomousContainerDatabase
metadata:
  name: autonomouscontainerdatabase-sample
spec:
  compartmentOCID: ocid1.compartment... OR ocid1.tenancy...
  displayName: RenamedADB
  ociConfig:
    configMapName: oci-cred
    secretName: oci-privatekey

displayNameName: User-friendly name of the Autonomous Container Database. The name does not have to be unique.

Apply the change using kubectl.

kubectl apply -f config/samples/acd/autonomouscontainerdatabase_change_displayname.yaml
autonomouscontainerdatabase.database.oracle.com/autonomouscontainerdatabase-sample configured

Restart/Terminate

Note: this operation requires an AutonomousContainerDatabase object to be in your cluster. This example assumes the provision operation or the bind operation has been done by the users and the operator is authorized with API Key Authentication.

Users can restart/terminate a database using the action attribute. The value will be erased after the change is applied. Here's a list of the values you can set for action:

RESTART: to restart the database
TERMINATE: to terminate the database
SYNC: to sync the database, will describe in the next section

A sample .yaml file is available here: config/samples/acd/autonomouscontainerdatabase_restart_terminate.yaml

---
apiVersion: database.oracle.com/v1alpha1
kind: AutonomousContainerDatabase
metadata:
  name: autonomouscontainerdatabase-sample
spec:
  autonomousContainerDatabaseOCID: ocid1.autonomouscontainerdatabase...
  # Change the action to "TERMINATE" to terminate the database
  action: RESTART
  ociConfig:
    configMapName: oci-cred
    secretName: oci-privatekey

Apply the change to restart the database.

kubectl apply -f config/samples/acd/autonomouscontainerdatabase_restart_terminate.yaml
autonomouscontainerdatabase.database.oracle.com/autonomouscontainerdatabase-sample configured

Delete the resource

Note: this operation requires an AutonomousContainerDatabase object to be in your cluster. This example assumes the provision operation or the bind operation has been done by the users and the operator is authorized with API Key Authentication.

The hardLink defines the behavior when the resource is deleted from the cluster. If the hardLink is set to true, the Operator terminates the Autonomous Container Database in OCI when the resource is removed; otherwise, the Autonomous Container Database remains unchanged. By default the value is false if it is not explicitly specified.

Follow the steps to delete the resource and terminate the Autonomous Container Database.

Use the example autonomouscontainerdatabase_delete_resource.yaml which sets the attribute hardLink to true.

---
apiVersion: database.oracle.com/v1alpha1
kind: AutonomousContainerDatabase
metadata:
  name: autonomouscontainerdatabase-sample
spec:
  autonomousContainerDatabaseOCID: ocid1.autonomouscontainerdatabase...
  hardLink: true
  ociConfig:
    configMapName: oci-cred
    secretName: oci-privatekey

Apply the yaml

kubectl apply -f config/samples/acd/autonomouscontainerdatabase_delete_resource.yaml
autonomouscontainerdatabase.database.oracle.com/autonomouscontainerdatabase-sample configured

Delete the resource in your cluster

kubectl delete acd/autonomouscontainerdatabase-sample
autonomouscontainerdatabase.database.oracle.com/autonomouscontainerdatabase-sample deleted

Now, you can verify that the Autonomous Container Database is in TERMINATING state.

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Managing Oracle Autonomous Container Databases on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure

Required Permissions

Supported Features

Provision an Autonomous Container Database

Bind to an existing Autonomous Container Database

Change the display name

Restart/Terminate

Delete the resource