An Oracle database container for testing purpose

• image source: https://github.com/exo-docker/exo-oracle⁠

Oracle docker image by eXo Platform

This is a Oracle image to easily build an Oracle environment for test purposes.

How to build

• Download the official Oracle 12rc1 installer on the oracle site⁠
• Put the 2 archives linuxamd64_12102_database_1of2.zip and linuxamd64_12102_database_2of2.zip in the installer directory
• Execute docker build -t oracle:12rc1 .. It will create the image and install Oracle on it. it can take some time.

How to run

The Oracle instance can be launched with this command :

docker run --name my-database -p 1521:1521 -e ORACLE_SID=sid -e ORACLE_DATABSE=mydb -e ORACLE_USER=user -e ORACLE_PASSWORD=password -e ORACLE_DBA_PASSWORD=syspassword oracle:12rc1

The data are persisted on the directory /u01/app/oracle/data. To keep them between 2 container restarts, add this parameter to the command line:

-v local_datadir:/u01/app/oracle/data

Variables

All these variables are mandatory :

• ORACLE_SID : The oracle sid used to identified the database
• ORACLE_DATABASE : the name of the database to create
• ORACLE_USER : The standard user name allowed to connect to the database
• ORACLE_PASSWORD : The password of the user
• ORACLE_DBA_PASSWORD : Administrator password