As I began looking for information on running Oracle in containers back in 2014, the consensus among Oracle experts wasn’t very promising. Most database administrators dismissed Docker as the latest technology-de-jour among developers and not something capable of handling the demands of a database. They cited dire warnings about instability, poor performance, and data loss. Peers shared horror stories of various disasters rooted in the immaturity or fragility of Docker.
Those criticisms shared a common theme. Each was an anecdote involving some ...
