Oracle on Alpine linux

Question

I am trying to install OCI8 extension on my Alpine Linux Docker environment. Although there are several places saying it won\'t work, there are some which say it actually do

Answer 1

I might be late to answer this. I got the same problem of having a alpine base image and add oracle client to that. So i came up with this solution - https://github.com/Shrinidhikulkarni7/OracleClient_Alpine

Here is the Dockerfile, but you would also need the shell script in it for it to work.

FROM alpine:latest

ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib

RUN wget https://download.oracle.com/otn_software/linux/instantclient/193000/instantclient-basic-linux.x64-19.3.0.0.0dbru.zip && \
    unzip instantclient-basic-linux.x64-19.3.0.0.0dbru.zip && \
    cp -r instantclient_19_3/* /lib && \
    rm -rf instantclient-basic-linux.x64-19.3.0.0.0dbru.zip && \
    apk add libaio

ADD script.sh /root/script.sh

RUN /root/script.sh

Over here I'm directly downloading the oracle client inside image, setting the path, adding packages and finally using the shell script for creating symbolic link.