Oracle on Docker: Running Oracle Databases in Linux Containers

Run Oracle databases in Docker containers. This book teaches you how to plan and build reusable images, separate data and configurations from database software, and protect, persist, and distribute data. Throughout the book you'll learn what makes Docker different from other platforms and how to adapt to Docker and take advantage of what it can offer.
You will discover the speed, flexibility, portability, and lower resource requirements that containers offer versus running Oracle Database on traditional bare metal or virtual machines. You'll see how Oracle and Docker empower you to confidently deploy systems for evaluating performance, testing code and application changes, validating backup and recovery, hardening environments, practicing database upgrades and migrations, provisioning gold images and datasets, proving test architectures, and disaster recovery.
If you're a database administrator, this is the book to help you join the container revolution that has been sweeping the industry and making IT professionals more productive than ever.
What You Will Learn

• Recognize when and why to use containers for an Oracle database
• Understand container terminology and mechanisms
• Build images and run containers for Oracle databases
• Extend images and containers for a variety of uses
• Store and persist data, and establish connectivity
• Manage, monitor, and secure containers
• Write Dockerfiles to support custom applications, upgrades, and multiple database versions

Who This Book Is For
Database administrators and other IT professionals interested in learning how to run Oracle databases in Linux containers, and for database administrators interested in bringing DevOps practices into their work