oci-automation-anywhere

This is a Terraform module that deploys Automation Anywhere on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). It is developed jointly by Oracle and Automation Anywhere. While the Quick Start is great for extremely technical users, the Marketplace can also be useful as it provides a GUI deployment of Automation Anywhere. That listing is contains the same Terraform as the Quick Start and is available here.

Prerequisites

First off you'll need to do some pre deploy setup. That's all detailed here.

Clone the Module

You'll first want a local copy of this repo by running:

git clone https://github.com/oracle-quickstart/oci-automation-anywhere.git
cd oci-automation-anywhere/
ls

That should give you this:

We now need to initialize the directory with the module in it. This makes the module aware of the OCI provider. You can do this by running:

terraform init

This gives the following output:

Deploy

First we want to run terraform plan. This runs through the terraform and lists out the resources to be created based on the values in variables.tf. If the variable doesn't have a default you'll be promted for a value.

The only value without a value is var.sql_pw which is used for the default SA user on the instance of SQL Server Developer created by default. This password must meet the following or the post-deploy configuration will fail:

• 8 characters min
• Contains 3 of lower case, uppercase, number, symbol

If that's good, we can go ahead and apply the deploy:

terraform apply

You'll need to enter yes when prompted. The apply should take several minutes to run, and the final setup will happen asynchronously after this returns.

Once complete, you'll see something like this:

After a few minutes you'll be able to navigate to the a2019_https_url output of the terraform. Once you accept the self-signed certificate, you'll be presented with a configuration screen like this:

Enter these values:

• Repository path: /opt/automationanywhere/server_files
• Control Room Access URL: the same https://... URL you navigated using a2019_https_url

Continue following the setup prompts. Note, setting the Credential Vault to Express mode and using DB authentication are the simplest options and don't require other pre-existing resources. Once complete you should see:

Note on SQL Options

This terraform allows for 3 SQL DB option strings in var.db_type:

• "SQL Server Developer" (default)
• "Existing SQL Server"
• "New Paid SQL Server"

The last option will deploy a paid instance of SQL Server which incurs a license charge. You also need to be whitelisted to allow this option, dicussed here.

Destroy the Deployment

When you no longer need the deployment, you can run this command to destroy it:

terraform destroy

You'll need to enter yes when prompted. Once complete, you'll see something like this:

All resources created by this deployment have now been destroyed.