Review these topics for step-by-step procedures to provision, patch, and upgrade your software using Fleet Patching and Provisioning.

Fleet Patching and Provisioning is a software lifecycle management solution and helps standardize patching, provisioning, and upgrade of your standard operating environment.

• Getting Started with Fleet Patching and Provisioning
  Understand how you can get started and use Fleet Patching and Provisioning in your standard deployment.
• Adding Gold Images for Fleet Patching and Provisioning
  Create gold images of software home and store them on the Fleet Patching and Provisioning Server, to use later to provision Oracle homes.
• Creating an Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c Release 2 Deployment
  Provision Oracle Grid Infrastructure software on two nodes that do not currently have a Grid home, and then configure Oracle Grid Infrastructure to form a multi-node Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation.
• Provisioning an Oracle Database Home and Creating a Database
  This procedure provisions Oracle Database 12c release 2 (12.2) software and creates Oracle Database instances.
• Upgrading to Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c Release 2
  This procedure uses Fleet Patching and Provisioning to upgrade your Oracle Grid Infrastructure cluster from 11g release 2 (11.2.0.4) to 12c release 2 (12.2).
• Patching Oracle Grid Infrastructure Without Changing the Grid Home Path
  This procedure explains how to patch Oracle Grid Infrastructure without changing the Grid home path.
• Patching Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle Databases Simultaneously
  This procedure patches Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle Databases on the cluster to the latest patch level without cluster downtime.
• Patching Oracle Database 12c Release 1 Without Downtime
  This procedure explains how to patch Oracle Database 12c release 1 (12.1.0.2) with the latest patching without bringing down the database.
• Upgrading to Oracle Database 12c Release 2
  This procedure describes how to upgrade an Oracle database from Oracle Database 11g release 2 (11.2) to 12c release 2 with a single command, using Fleet Patching and Provisioning, both for managed and unmanaged Oracle homes.
• Adding a Node to a Cluster and Scaling an Oracle RAC Database to the Node
  You can add a node to your two-node cluster by using Fleet Patching and Provisioning to add the node, and then extend an Oracle RAC database to the new node.
• Creating a User Action to Deploy a Web Server
  You can install and configure any type of software using Fleet Patching and Provisioning user actions. Review this procedure to automate deployment of Apache Web Server using Fleet Patching and Provisioning.