About Life Cycle Management of Oracle SOA Suite on Marketplace Instances

With a few clicks of the mouse, you can create an Oracle WebLogic Server production environment in the cloud that is based on best practices, optimized for high performance and reliability, and is integrated with your Oracle SOA Suite on Marketplace instances.

When you create an Oracle SOA Suite on Marketplace instance, you create and configure an Oracle Fusion Middleware Infrastructure domain with the resources defined in the following table.

Resources	Description
Administration Server	Operates as the central control entity for the configuration of the entire domain. It maintains the domain's configuration documents and distributes changes in the configuration documents to Managed Servers. Each Oracle SOA Suite domain has one server instance that hosts the Administration Server.
Managed Servers	Host business applications, application components, Web services, and their associated resources. When creating an Oracle SOA Suite on Marketplace instance, you can configure up to four Managed Servers, then scale out, as needed. Each Oracle SOA Suite on Marketplace Managed Server instance has one or more Managed Servers, each hosted by its own Administration Server. By default, the Managed Servers are named as follows: first8charsOfDomainName_server_n (where n starts with 1 and is incremented by 1 for each additional Managed Server to guarantee unique names).
Cluster	Consists of multiple Oracle WebLogic Server instances running simultaneously and working together to provide increased scalability and reliability. In a cluster, most resources and services are deployed identically to each Managed Server (as opposed to a single Managed Server), enabling failover and load balancing. A cluster is configured automatically for a production-level service instance. By default, the cluster name is generated from the first eight characters of the Oracle SOA Suite on Marketplace Managed Server instance name using the following format: first8charsOfServiceInstanceName_cluster.
Load Balancer	Employs the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure load balancer to manage routing requests across all Managed Servers and provide failover and replication. Using the load balancer is optional. It is recommended that you use the load balancer when you configure more than one Managed Server in your environment. You can enable the load balancer during provisioning (see Provision an Oracle SOA Suite on Marketplace Instance in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console) or add it after provisioning (see Add or Delete a Load Balancer Post-Provisioning).

If you want more information about Oracle WebLogic Server domains, see WebLogic Server Domains in Understanding Oracle WebLogic Server.

After the Oracle SOA Suite on Marketplace instance is created, the Administration Server in the domain is started automatically. You can deploy applications and manage the domain resources using the standard administration tools, including Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control, Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console, Oracle WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST), Node Manager, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure load balancer.

Note:

If you extend your domain using the administration tools, for example, to add an additional cluster, you are responsible for maintaining those additional resources.