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Upgrading to Oracle Linux 10 with Leapp

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Upgrading to Oracle Linux 10 with Leapp: Methods, Best Practices & Drawbacks 📅 July 12, 2026 🏷️ Oracle Linux, Leap upgrade,  OCI  ⏱ 25 min read   Article Overview Moving a fleet from Oracle Linux 9 to Oracle Linux 10 no longer means rebuilding every host. The leapp utility performs a controlled, in-place major-version upgrade that keeps your operating system, database, and application stack in place. This guide walks through how Leapp works, the four deployment methods available, a complete command-by-command upgrade with copy-ready scripts, an Ansible pattern for fleet rollouts, and an honest look at the limitations, blockers, and known issues you need to plan around before touching production. 📋 Table of Contents What the Leapp Utility Actually Does The Supported Upgrade Path The Two-Phase Workflow Four Deployment Methods Preparing the System Step-by-Step Upgrade (with Code) Automating Across a Fleet Best Practices Drawbacks & Known Issues In-Place Upgrade v...
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Introducing Oracle Enterprise AI Lakehouse: Unifying AI, Data, and Analytics Across Clouds

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Getting Hands-On with Oracle's Enterprise AI Lakehouse 📅 July 11, 2026 🏷️ Autonomous AI Lakehouse, OCI  ⏱ 15 min read Quick DiSCLAIMER Quick disclaimer before I get into it, because I know someone will ask in the comments: Oracle's actual product name is Autonomous AI Lakehouse . "Enterprise AI Lakehouse" is the phrase a lot of people (including a few folks on my own team) use informally to describe it, because that is exactly the job it is built for — an enterprise-grade lakehouse with AI baked into the engine rather than bolted on top. I will use both terms in this post, but if you go looking for it in Oracle's docs or console, search for "Autonomous AI Lakehouse." I have spent the better part of the last few weeks poking at this thing on a sandbox tenancy, partly out of curiosity and partly because three separate customers asked me some version of "should we ditch our data lake pipeline and just point everything at the Autonomous Database?...
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