Oracle Client on Alpine Linux
I was about to add oracle client on alpine but when i searched about it, i got zero answers which actually told me how to do it on alpine. All the answers which i found wanted me to have a Ubuntu base image/ any other heavy image. But as a engineer, i would love to keep my images small and would like to continue on alpine, which i’m using from long.
So, I decided to make one my own.
You can access the complete code here — https://github.com/Shrinidhikulkarni7/OracleClient_Alpine
Let me break down the script over here.
1. Get the base alpine image.
2. Set the environment variable for LD_LIBRARY_PATH ( which was requirement by oracle)
3. Download the oracle client ( version 19.3.0), unzip it.
4. Copy the downloaded and unziped file to /lib.
5. Remove the zipped file and libaio library.
6. Here comes the main thing. You cannot directly add symbolic links via Dockerfile.
7. So i made a shell script, which does the work of symbolic linking and copied it inside our image and ran it.(symbolic link was requirement by oracle).
This is your oracle image on alpine.
I answered this on stackoverflow as well — https://stackoverflow.com/a/58360959/9363493
Thank you :)
