Unlocking the Full Potential of Oracle Visual Builder Studio: From CI/CD to Seamless Cloud Development
In today’s fast-paced development landscape, tools that streamline collaboration, automation, and deployment are crucial for success. Oracle’s Visual Builder Studio (VBS) offers a comprehensive solution that empowers developers to create, manage, and extend applications with ease. It provides seamless continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, along with an intuitive interface for building Oracle SaaS Visual Builder Applications and Fusion application extensions. In this blog, we’ll explore how you can unlock the full potential of Oracle Visual Builder Studio and harness its power to optimize your development workflows.
What is Visual Builder Studio?
Visual Builder Studio (VBS) is a powerful project workspace management platform provided by Oracle Cloud. It serves as a visual development environment, helping developers to create and extend Visual Builder Applications for Oracle SaaS and Fusion applications.
Key Features of Visual Builder Studio:
- Free of Cost: Launching a VBS instance is easy and no cost within an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) tenancy, it offers 20GB of free storage.
- Built-in Git Repository: VBS features a built-in version control system, offering full version control capabilities such as branching, merging, cloning, and checkout
- Configurable build jobs: VBS offers full support for CI/CD pipelines through automated build and deployment jobs for Visual Builder Cloud Service (VBCS). We can also automate the deployment/migration of Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), and Oracle APEX applications.
Components of Visual Builder Studio
- Projects
This is a workspace component where all development activities are managed. Projects allow teams to organize and collaborate efficiently. - OCI Account Configuration
Configure your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) account to create and manage VBS resources in your OCI tenancy. - Build Executor Templates
Pre-defined virtual machine (VM) configuration templates that specify resource requirements for build executors. - Build Executors
These are the VM resources where build jobs are executed, supporting automated CI/CD processes. Build jobs include compile, package, and deployment of the artifacts.
Benefits of Using Visual Builder Studio
- Centralized Development Workspace: A comprehensive platform for building Visual Builder Applications and Oracle Fusion extensions. Visual Builder Studio enables developers to share and manage workspaces, fostering efficient collaboration and streamlined project management
- Seamless Integration: You can launch, run, and manage Visual Builder Cloud Service (VBCS) applications directly in your own environment.
- Git-Based Collaboration: Utilize the integrated Git repository to manage code, create branches, and collaborate with multiple developers, all within the same platform. Additionally, VBS supports the use of external Git and Bitbucket repositories, allowing you to clone and integrate them into your workflow.
- Out-of-the-Box CI/CD: Provides pre-configured build and deployment environments, making the setup process quick and straightforward. VBS also offers import/export automation and pipeline workflows with built-in approval steps.
- Issue Tracking: The Issues section allows teams to create tasks, report defects, submit enhancement requests and assign them to team members. It serves as an effective project or issue tracking tool, helping teams stay organized and on top of their workflows
Why Choose Visual Builder Studio?
Visual Builder Studio is a versatile tool, particularly if you’re already in the Oracle ecosystem. Its integrated development environment, version control, CI/CD support, and seamless collaboration features make it ideal for both small teams and large enterprise development projects.
Utilizing Visual Builder Studio is an excellent option to enhance your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure stack. Take advantage of VBS in your organization to support rapid development, collaboration, and automated deployment processes. At Apps Associates, our mission is to guide our customers to success by streamlining their business processes and ensuring they take full advantage of their tech stack.
To speak with an Apps Associates expert about implementing VBS, OCI, or another solution, contact us today.
