In this article I'll show you how to install oracle database in a container docker

Create a Docker container with Oracle Database

To create a Docker Container with Oracle Database we need to log in at docker account. To do this, type this command bellow in your terminal:

docker login

And put your registered login like this print bellow:

Now let's go to pull the docker image. To do this, just type this command bellow:

docker pull store/oracle/database-enterprise:12.2.0.1

Create a container

Our next step will be to create a container, to do this, we just need this command bellow:

docker run -d -p 1521:1521 --name oracle store/oracle/database-enterprise:12.2.0.1

This command will create a oracle database container with the name oracle using the version 12.2.0.1, working in port 1521:1521.

After the installation is completed, we can connect to the Oracle SQL Plus tool to create users and grant the necessary permissions as follows.

docker exec -it oracle bash -c "source /home/oracle/.bashrc; sqlplus /nolog"

Now let's to connect as sysdba in Docker

connect sys as sysdba;

And create your Oracle User:

create user your_username identified by your_password;

After this grant permission to your new user:

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES TO YOUR_USER_NAME;

NOTE: You can grant permissions for certain privileges ​​such as SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, CREATE TABLE instead of ALL PRIVILEGES, I granted all priviles just to show how you can do this in this article.

Now to connect to SQL Developer in Docker you can use this connetion bellow:

Username: username
Password: password
Hostname: localhost
Port: 1521
Service name: ORCLCDB.localdomain