Also provided and supported by software vendors such as Oracle. There are a lot of images and Dockerfiles available. The installation of a product inside the container is already fully scripted if you have a Docker image or Dockerfile.Docker uses paravirtualization which is more lightweight than full virtualization on for example VirtualBox or VMWare.

The benefits of Docker I mainly appreciated during this exercise is that Preparing for this blog was my first real Docker experience outside of workshops. You can find a Vagrant provisioning shell script with the installation of Docker and Docker commands to execute here and a description on how to use it here.ĭocker Installing Docker on Oracle Linux 7 Why Docker To summarize, I’m quite happy with the Docker images in the registry as they provide a very easy way to automate the install of an EE database. In this blog I’ll describe some of the choices to make and challenges I encountered. Lucas Jellema has already provided two blogs on this ( here and here) which have been a useful starting point. Oracle provides Docker images for its Standard and Enterprise Edition database in the Oracle Container Registry. I wanted to find out first-hand if this could help me get an Oracle Enterprise Edition database quickly up and running for use in a development environment. One of the benefits of using Docker is quick and easy provisioning.

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