Create and Delete Users in Weblogic using WLST Script

In one of my recent Event engagement, I was expected to provision 50+ users in Weblogic. Creating users in Weblogic is not cumbersome process, it’s fairly easy. However, when you need to do in bulk it can take hours.

So, I just came up with simple WLST script which take an configuration file as input which contains all the server credentials required to make connectivity and list of users, description and group name etc and create and delete users in Weblogic.

Note: I have tested this script in Weblogic 12.2.1.2 but it should work in all Weblogic version as long as the beans which I have used inside python not been change in particular Weblogic Version.

Creating Users

createUserMultiGrp.properties

This is configuration file which keep server credentials and all users name along with description, group and password.

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Configure Letsencrypt SSL Certificate in Weblogic 12c

Who doesn’t like the security. This is one of critical element of our IT Infrastructure. Recently I was doing one POC and got requirement to setup a valid SSL certificate in Weblogic. However, since it was just an POC we were not having any valid SSL certificate issued by some Certificate Authority. Later, I came across for one website called https://letsencrypt.org/ . Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA). they give people the digital certificates they need in order to enable HTTPS (SSL/TLS) for websites, and its free, yes you heard correctly It’s FREE !!!. You don’t need to pay them at all. So if you need a valid SSL certificate for your POC or even for Production environment you can get one from them. Although their certificate comes with 3 month validity, so while using for Production environment user need to keep renewing with them with simple automated process.

In this blog we will be learning how we can generate letsencrypt SSL certificate, what’s prerequisite to get the certificate and setup that certificate in Weblogic server to enable SSL communication.

So, Lets move on. We will be doing below stuff in sequence –

Get a registered domain name (This required while generating SSL Cert)
Install Certbot ACME Tool and Apache HTTP Server
Generate Letsencrypt SSL Certificate
Configure Letsencrypt SSL in Weblogic Identity Store

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Building a Docker Image for WebLogic 12.2.1.2 MedRec app

This blog walks you through the steps I used to get WebLogic Server and the MedRec sample application installed into a Docker image. There are many well documented GitHub projects for the Oracle Docker Images. This blog is meant to simply narrow down exactly what I did to get this going in my environment. I was using Ubuntu 16.04, and already had Docker installed.

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