Create Golden Image of your current Grid Infrastructure 12.2 installation

Starting with the release of Grid Infrastructure 12c Release 2, Oracle changed the installation process. Instead of unzipping the downloaded zip files to a staging area, you unzip them to your target Oracle Home location. Afterwards you run the configuration script gridSetup.sh. This new installer has a lot of improvements like patching the installer itself or installing patchset updates or bundle patches before the actual configuration of the Grid Infrastructure starts. I want to demonstrate one of these new features – the creation of a Gold Image of an existing Grid Infrastructure installation.

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