multipass VS docker-images

Install Multipass from https://multipass.run

Multipass orchestrates virtual Ubuntu instances

Multipass I love Multipass for quick Ubuntu instances spun up for testing or as a playground. Wish I would have known and used of it sooner.

If you just need Ubuntu then you can try "Multipass" from Canonical (https://multipass.run/). Works quite well on my M2 Air. I haven't tried using Linux GUI with it though as I need only terminal based VMs.

Multipass is pretty clutch for trivial VMs on MacOs for sure. I use it for a bunch of ssh jump boxes running vpns to different sites. The macOS build does not support custom images (lest not without [some truly insane hacks](https://github.com/canonical/multipass/issues/1260#issuecomm...) , which doesn’t really matter for what I use it for but it is kind of a bummer. If you need something with a little more grunt but don’t want to go full blown with writing your own QEMU tooling or fussing with something like UTM or Parallels, [quickemu](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu) is a really nice qemu wrapper with sane defaults that can expose a whole lot of power if you need it.

I would be cautious or even distrustful of using anything from Oracle. VirtualBox components come under three different licenses - GPLv2, personal use & evaluation license, and an enterprise license. Their VirtualBox license FAQ [1] gives them enough leeway to change future licenses at will. If an exploit is discovered in your old VirtualBox and they've changed the license, you're out of luck.

We've moved our development to KVM and Virtual Machine Manager on Linux [3] and UTM on Mac [4]. There are other options to run your VM, such as Multipass [5] or VirtualBuddy [6].

On a digressive topic - it was fun migrating our legacy application server stack from Oracle Java (old & poorly considered decision) to OpenJDK, thanks to their license [2].

[1] https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Licensing_FAQ

[2] https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/jdk-faqs.htm...

[3] https://ubuntu.com/blog/kvm-hyphervisor

[4] https://mac.getutm.app/

[5] https://multipass.run/

[6] https://github.com/insidegui/VirtualBuddy

How does it compare to https://multipass.run/?

If you have a reasonably beefy computer, you can always try setting up Multipass and set up 2-3 nodes for a k8s cluster, it's how I'm doing my own certification training. I do have a k3s Raspberry Pi cluster, but with Pi prices being what they are still it'd almost be cheaper to do a cloud setup. ☹️

We run Oracle DB in Docker at work, works very well. You can build a docker image using this repository https://github.com/oracle/docker-images/tree/main/OracleDatabase

Also see https://github.com/oracle/docker-images/tree/main/OracleDatabase

Been looking at this for days now. I'm forced for legacy code reasons to use Windows containers, so there's no point suggesting that I use the Linux containers on WSL. However, it seems that NOBODY has been able to get Oracle's Windows client installed on a Windows container. See this Github thread for example. I'm pretty new to Docker but have used Oracle for decades, and I'm a little a bit in shock that such a big name company like Oracle hasn't solved this issue.

https://hub.docker.com/_/microsoft-mssql-server https://github.com/oracle/docker-images/tree/main/OracleDatabase/SingleInstance/dockerfiles

Hi all! I'm currently trying to install the Oracle Database (as a Docker container) on openSUSE (Leap 15.3). I also try to set up the SQL*Plus instant client -- on either Leap or TW. The process has been quite painful so far (even by Oracle's standards). I wonder if anyone knows of a good walk-through explanation/tutorial. I cannot be the first person doing that...

I have it installed on Debian - using Docker, Oracle Docker images on Git hub

You could run it in a docker container: https://github.com/oracle/docker-images

OracleJDK: You can build it yourself: https://github.com/oracle/docker-images/tree/main/OracleJava