Whenever I give webinars and presentations about running Oracle on Docker, the top request from attendees is a set of step-by-step instructions to get a database up and running in a container. This chapter is a stand-alone collection of recipes for building images and running database containers.
Just as a pizza cookbook might offer instructions for making dough without describing how yeast makes dough rise, this chapter focuses on “how-to” and less on the “why” or “how.” It covers downloading and building images, creating a basic ...