This document provides an overview of WebLogic 12c and discusses its deployment in cloud environments. It begins with an introduction to WebLogic and its core components like the administration server and clustering. It then covers virtualization technologies like containers and Docker, comparing them with traditional virtualization. Finally, it discusses different approaches for deploying WebLogic in the cloud like Java Cloud Service, Oracle Cloud Marketplace images, and Kubernetes; and looks at future directions like the WebLogic Kubernetes operator.