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

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

• Creating an Oracle Grid Infrastructure 19c 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 19c software and creates Oracle Database instances.
• Provisioning a Pluggable Database
  You can provision a pluggable database (PDB) on an existing container database (CDB) running in a provisioned database working copy.
• Upgrading to Oracle Grid Infrastructure 19c
  This procedure uses Fleet Patching and Provisioning to upgrade your Oracle Grid Infrastructure cluster from 18c to 19c.
• 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 19c Without Downtime
  This procedure explains how to patch Oracle Database 19c with the latest patching without bringing down the database.
• Upgrading to Oracle Database 19c
  This procedure describes how to upgrade an Oracle database from Oracle Database 18c to 19c 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.
• 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.
• User Actions for Common Fleet Patching and Provisioning Tasks
  You can use Fleet Patching and Provisioning user actions to perform many tasks, such as installing and configuring any type of software and running scripts.