Oracle Database 12.1.0.1 ( 12c ) Standard Edition Docker image

it will download a minimal CentOS 6 image, Puppet 3.7 and all it dependencies

You can also use use the official Oracle Linux 6.6 docker image, just do the following

• wget http://public-yum.oracle.com/docker-images/OracleLinux/OL6/oraclelinux-6.6.tar.xz
• docker load -i oraclelinux-6.6.tar.xz
• docker run --rm -i -t oraclelinux:6.6 /bin/bash
• Change the first line of the Dockerfile to FROM oraclelinux:6.6

The Docker image will be big, and off course this is not supported by Oracle and like always check your license to use this software

Configures Puppet and use librarian-puppet to download all the modules from the Puppet Forge

Result

• Oracle Database Standard Edition 12.1.0.1
• Service name = orcl.example.com
• username sys or system
• All passwords = Welcome01
• Demo schemas

Optional, you can add your own DB things, just change the puppet site.pp manifest

• Add your own Tablespaces
• Add Roles
• User with grants
• Change database init parameters
• execute some SQL

Software

Download the following software 12.1.01 from Oracle and Agree to the license

• 12.1.0.1 file 1 & 2 ( linuxamd64_12c_database_1of2.zip )

Add them to this docker folder

Build image (~ 13GB)

docker build -t oracle/database12101 .

Maybe after the build you should compress it first, see the compress section for more info

Start container

default, will start the listener & database server

• docker run -i -t -p 1521:1521 oracle/database12101:latest

with bash

docker run -i -t -p 1521:1521 oracle/database12101:latest /bin/bash

• /startup.sh

Compress image (now ~7.6GB)

• ID=$(docker run -d oracle/database12101:latest /bin/bash)
• docker export $ID > database12101.tar
• cat database12101.tar | docker import - database12101
• docker run -i -t -p 1521:1521 database12101:latest /bin/bash
• /startup.sh

Boot2docker, MAC OSX

Probably you will run out of space

• Resize boot2docker image https://docs.docker.com/articles/b2d_volume_resize/

VirtualBox forward rules

• VBoxManage controlvm boot2docker-vm natpf1 "database,tcp,,1521,,1521"

Check the ipaddress

• boot2docker ip