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

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

• Getting Started with Rapid Home Provisioning
  Understand how you can get started and use Rapid Home Provisioning in your standard deployment.
• 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 Rapid Home 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 11.2 to 12c release 2 with a single command, using Rapid Home Provisioning, both for managed and unmanaged Oracle homes.
• Adding a Node to a Cluster and Scaling an Oracle RAC Database to the Node
  To your two-node cluster, you can add a new node, and extend an Oracle RAC Database to the new node, using Rapid Home Provisioning.
• Adding Gold Images for Rapid Home Provisioning
  Create gold images of software home and store them on the Rapid Home Provisioning Server, to use later to provision Oracle homes.
• Creating User Action to Deploy a Web Server
  You can install and configure any type of software using Rapid Home Provisioning user actions. Review this procedure to automate deployment of Apache Web Server using Rapid Home Provisioning.