Get dockerized Oracle 11 XE easily

dockerized-oracle-11-xe.md

Get dockerized Oracle 11 XE database easily

• Clone official dockerfiles:

git clone https://github.com/oracle/docker-images oracle-docker-images
cd oracle-docker-images/OracleDatabase/SingleInstance/dockerfiles

• Download Oracle 11 xe zip and put it to to ../dockerfiles/11.2.0.2 folder

• Build an image: ./buildContainerImage.sh -v 11.2.0.2 -x

• Start the database:

docker run --rm -it --name oracle -e ORACLE_PWD=oracle \
--shm-size="2g" -p9090:8080 -p1521:1521 \
oracle/database:11.2.0.2-xe

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Notes:

• notice the ORACLE_PWD variable used to set the password for system user
• --shm-size parameter is important, without it you will get:

Error: The container doesn't have enough memory allocated.
A database XE container needs at least 1 GB of shared memory (/dev/shm).
You currently only have 64 MB allocated to the container.

Solution origin: oracle/docker-images#458 (comment)

UPD: Oracle 11 XE is not available at official Oracle website anymore: Refer to https://stackoverflow.com/a/61069731/3581539 to get zipped rpm