Honestly, I think we should bite the bullet and try to use the official Oracle image from the Oracle container registry.

What's unfortunate is we will not be able to run this on the CI though. I'm guessing these public docker images break some kind of licensing, which is why they are being removed. See: https://old.reddit.com/r/docker/comments/ail87k/my_image_with_10m_pulls_has_just_gone_completely/?st=jzcw7ohs&sh=cbadbdc2 and the linked issue

any progress with that?

I've hacked together a version that uses 18c XE at https://github.com/InvalidInterrupt/django-docker-box/tree/oracle-xe that may be suitable for local testing. It also works around the sudo issue in the entrypint script.

There was some discussion regarding Oracle making XE images officially (and maybe publicly?) available here: oracle/docker-images#1156

truevoly/oracle-12c seems to have been around for 3 years. Could we switch to that for the time being in our docker-compose.yml? Looks like a PR for that change has been sitting since 2019.

For anyone else looking into using this project to run Oracle: the latest version of Django (5.0) requires Oracle 19 or later - as such, neither sath89/oracle-12c nor truevoly/oracle-12c will work anymore.

If anyone attempts to fix this in the future, here are some tips:

• oracle_entrypoint.sh is broken with an error saying that sudo isn't installed. To resolve this, copy from this commit.

• I got an error TNS:listener does not currently know of service requested in connect descriptor. To resolve this, make a change like this in settings/test_oracle.py

• If you run into error ORA-12528: TNS:listener: all appropriate instances are blocking new connections, you will need to expose port 5500 for oracle-db in docker-compose.yml

Good luck to you! Gotta love Oracle 🙄

For anyone interested in this, I have Oracle working on the main branch of my fork.

I have a bunch of tidying up to do, but hopefully in the coming months we can get it rolled back in upstream.

Super exciting stuff @ngnpope that would make building new features on Oracle less of a pain for sure. Let me know if you want someone to QA your work locally when you're done tidying it up.