Oracle Integration Cloud: Building Integrations That Survive Production · Module 16 · Environments and promotion
What an environment means here
Lesson 153 of 175 · 2 min
Separate instances, separate connections, separate credentials. What is shared and WHAT MUST NEVER BE. An OIC environment is a whole instance rather than a partition inside one. Development, test and production are separate installations with separate consoles, separate integrations and separate connections — and the separation is the point rather than an inconvenience. WHAT IS SHARED IS THE DESIGN, AND ONLY THE DESIGN. The integration — its structure, its mappings, its orchestration — is the artefact that travels between environments, and it should be byte-identical in all three. If it is not, the thing running in production is not the thing that was tested, and every test result is a statement about a different object. WHAT MUST NEVER BE SHARED IS EVERY POINTER TO A REAL SYSTEM. Connections, endpoints, credentials, file paths, notification addresses. Each environment has its own, pointing at that environment's systems. AND THE FAILURE THIS PREVENTS IS…
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In this module: Module 16 · Environments and promotion
- 1What an environment means here
- 2Export and import, mechanically
- 3The promotion checklistFree preview
- 4Connections do not travel
- 5Lookups and environment-specific values
- 6Schedules after promotion
- 7Versioning and rollback
- 8Automating promotion
- 9What breaks: four promotion failures
- 10Lab briefing · Promote, and prove it is isolated