Skip creating the database

[yadavsanket]

I am trying to skip creating the database when we launch docker run .... command. I tried commenting out the statements that create the database - basically the statements starting from below line -
if [ -f $ORACLE_BASE/oradata/.${ORACLE_SID}${CHECKPOINT_FILE_EXTN} ]; then
up to the matching fi; statement in runOracle.sh.

However, there are a lot of checks which are thwarting my attempts to do so. I want to do this as I already have my own database creation scripts. And I do not want to unnecessarily keep two databases in the container.

Is there an elegant way to skip creating the default database and use my custom DB creation scrips?

Side note: I tried specifying my custom scripts by mapping to /opt/oracle/scripts/setup in the hopes of automatically creating my custom DB along with default DB but even that attempt failed.

[gvenzl]

Hi @yadavsanket,

The most elegant way of creating your database is to extend the existing image and overwrite the CMD instruction with your script.
Alternatively, you could also extend the image and overwrite the $RUN_FILE (/opt/oracle/runOracle.sh) with your own.
Last but not least, you could create your database once, keep that in a volume and start a container pointing to that image.

[gyurovb]

docker run -d -it --name <the name here> <your image here> /bin/bash