Prerequisites

  • Ensure that you have the required permissions. For more information, see Overview Application Transformer for VMware Tanzu Roles.

  • You must have the discovered and containerized Weblogic components.
  • Upload artifacts for desired versions of the Weblogic server and JDK. See Step 1.
  • Add an Image Registry for source and destination registries.
  • My Oracle Support Account in Settings > Credentials > My oracle Support Accounts. This is needed only if Weblogic server needs Patch or Containerized WLS version is 12.2.1.3.0 as required patch 29135930 will be applied during image creation.

Procedure

  1. Upgrade Weblogic server and JDK.
    • You can select to upgrade only the Weblogic server version, or only JDK version, or both.
    • BaseOS will be the same as the previous containerized version. New OCI Image will be created with updated versions of Weblogic server and JDK.
    • You can add patches if required for the selected Weblogic version - applying patches requires My Oracle Support Account.
    • Select the destination registry and provide a proper image tag in the <repository>/<image>:<tag> format to push the image and artifacts and then, click Continue.
    • Review the selections and click CONFIRM to trigger the Update Image task.
  2. Upgrade OS Base Image.
    • You can select to upgrade only the Base OS of the OCI image.
    • WLS , JDK versions, Patches if any applied will be the same as the previous containerized version. New OCI Image will be created with selected Base OS.
    • Select the destination registry and provide a proper image tag in the <repository>/<image>:<tag> format to push the image and artifacts and then, click Continue.
    • Review the selections and click CONFIRM to trigger the Update Image task.
  3. Apply Patches.
    • You can select to only apply patches for the current version of the Weblogic server in the image.
    • You review the previously applied patch numbers and delete or add any new patches in comma separated list.
    • Select the My Oracle Support Account.
    • Select the destination registry and provide a proper image tag in the <repository>/<image>:<tag> format to push the image and artifacts and then, click Continue.
    • Review the selections and click CONFIRM to trigger the Update Image task.

Results

After successful completion of image build and push, component details are updated with OCI image tag and artifact tag. You can download the artifacts ZIP file, which contains all discovered artifacts from the domain and also download the generated YAML template deployment file, which needs an edit to replace FIX-ME details before deploying.

What to do next

Deploy Weblogic Image in Tanzu Kubernetes Grid