Enabling the Future Today – Feature Flags in Oracle Integration Cloud by Antony Reynolds

Enabling the Future Today

Within Integration cloud we are moving to a model that allows us to trial new features without making them available to everyone.  Everone runs the same codebase but feature flags control what is available to a specific instance.  Why would we do this? For multiple reasons:

• Gain feedback on new features before rolling them out to the whole user base.
• Test new features in "the wild" in a controlled manner.
• Be able to rollback new features that may have unforeseen problems.

How It Works

Each new feature is given a flag that is used to control its availability.  For instance the flag for the small footprint OIC agent was oic.adapters.connectivity-agent.light-weight-agent.  If this flag was enabled for a given OIC instance then they could download the lightweight connectivity agent.  Other OIC instances running the same code but with the flag turned off would not offer the new agent.

Flags are controlled from a central system and can be updated in real time by Oracle development and operations.  This means that feature flags can be turned on very quickly, and also if a problem occurs they can be disabled.

Feature Flag Lifecycle

Feature flags have a lifecycle as illustrated below.

The different stages are:

Internal Only

You may see a product manager demo features on an instance that are not currently available, if using a production pod these may only be available to internal users.  This is where we try things out internally before turning them on for any customers.  Once we are happy with the feature internally we are ready to share it with selected customers and move the feature to Feature Controlled.  Note that this change in stage does not require any code changes, it just alters our internal approval process to enable the feature. Read the complete article here.

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API-Key Based Authentication: Quickly and Easily by Anuj Kaushal

API-Key based authentication is a simple way for providing secure access to APIs. This involves the following steps:

1. Pre-requisite: User logs in to the service portal and finds or generates an API-Key.
2. The API-Key is shared with the client application.
3. The client application makes a request for a resource using the API key.

Steps required in API Key based authentication.

* An API-key is simply a token that a client provides when making API calls.

How to invoke a REST API protected with an API-Key using Oracle Integration Cloud?

Oracle REST Adapter provides a comprehensive way for consuming external RESTful APIs. It provides a re-usable connection that can be used to specify the security policy for accessing protected APIs. For consuming APIs protected using an API-Key, integration developers should proceed by selecting API Key Based Authentication security policy. Read the complete article here.

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ERP & HCM Application integration using Oracle Integration Workshop June 24 – June 26, 2019 Paris France

Are you working on Oracle SaaS implementations and want to integrate and extend them using PaaS? Oracle Product Management is pleased to invite Oracle Partners to attend the 3-day hands-on workshop on how to integrate with ERP & HCM applications using Oracle Integration Cloud. This Invite-Only hands-on workshop will be delivered at No-Fee to Partners. It will consist of presentations, demos, and hands-on labs. Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) offers Integration, Process Automation and Visual design capabilities that help business analysts and IT specialists to automate end to end business processes across departments. Oracle Integration Cloud offers a simple recipe to be successful in this application integration and process automation journey: Build, Integrate and Engage.

For details please visit the registration page here.

For additional information please get the innovate, extend and integrate SaaS kit here.

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Integrate ERP Cloud with Oracle Integration Cloud – PaaS Partner Community Webcast May 28th 2019

Attend our May edition of the PaaS Partner Community Webcast live on May 28^th 2019

Integrate ERP Cloud

Oracle Integration eliminates barriers between business applications through a combination of machine learning, embedded best-practice guidance, prebuilt integration, and process automation. Oracle Integration is unique in the market by leveraging Oracle application expertise to build an extensive library of adapters to Oracle and 3rd party SaaS and on-premises applications to enable you to deliver new business services faster. For more information please visit www.tinyurl.com/integrateSaaS

Presenter: Niall Commiskey

Director Product Management

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Call ID: 5566478 and Passcode: 268096

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Schedule: Wednesday May 28^th 2019 15:30-16:30 CET.

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Take the opportunity to watch our community webcasts on-demand:

· Integrate HCM Cloud

· Functions and Cloud Native

· Cloud trials & community update

· Oracle Integration Cloud Update

· Oracle OpenWorld 2018 Preview

· Innovate, Extend and Integrate SaaS Overview and Pricing

· Robotic Process Automation

· Autonomous Mobile Cloud

· PaaS Overview Webcast

· Blockchain

· API Platform Cloud Service part 2

· 3rd Generation API Gateways part1

· Oracle JET

· Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service

· Container Native Application Development Platform

For the latest information please visit Community Updates Wiki page (Community membership required).

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