In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, maintaining up-to-date software across an organization’s IT infrastructure is critical. Delayed or inefficient patching exposes businesses to security vulnerabilities, operational disruptions, and potential compliance risks.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Fleet Application Management service enables IT teams to centralize, automate, and streamline patch operations for any technology deployed in OCI, either Oracle products, third-party components in your stack, or custom software. This consolidation reduces the manual effort, errors, and time involved in managing software patching across large scale footprints, improving IT productivity, reducing security and compliance risk, and lowering overall TCO.
Because bad actors are getting faster in exploiting software vulnerabilities, the relentless rate of common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) and required on-going patches, and the growing complexity of the technology stack across environments, organizations of all sizes struggle to keep up with software patching. Limited visibility into patch compliance status across their footprints, challenges and ‘dark corners’ around Asset inventory, and painful, time-consuming manual processes all exasperate the problem.
Automation in both software discovery and patch management is more than convenient—it’s essential for modern enterprises. Organizations using automated IT operations can achieve productivity gains of up to 30–40% by reducing human intervention, IT teams can focus on strategic priorities rather than repetitive tasks. Moreover, automated patching mitigates risks by encouraging timely updates, safeguarding against known vulnerabilities, and maintaining compliance standards.
OCI Fleet Application Management comes equipped with prebuilt runbooks for discovering and patching of Oracle technologies like Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle Linux, and other more. However, its true power lies in its flexibility. Using custom Runbooks and the Bring Your Own Product (BYOP) capabilities, organizations can extend these benefits to automatically identify deployed inventory and then automatically patch any third-party and custom software, such as Apache Tomcat. This capability enables enterprises to centralize patch compliance operations across their entire portfolio, while supporting their specific technologies and IT processes’ requirements.
With OCI Fleet Application Management, enterprises get the following capabilities:
We have published a detailed tutorial, complete with code samples, that walks users through automating the patching process for Apache Tomcat using OCI Fleet Application Management. While Apache Tomcat serves as an example, you can apply the same approach to other software products.
The tutorial includes the following key highlights:
The OCI Fleet Application Management service includes a free tier of up to 25 managed resources per month. Streamline patch operations for any technology deployed in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and get started with the tutorial today.
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