Getting Started with Docker on Oracle Linux

Learn how to customize a Docker container image and use it to instantiate application instances across different Linux servers. This article describes how to create a Dockerfile, how to allocate runtime resources to containers, and how to establish a communication channel between two containers (for example, between web server and database containers).

Docker containers wrap up a piece of software in a complete filesystem that contains everything it needs to run: code, runtime, system tools, system libraries 

• https://community.oracle.com/docs/DOC-914969
• Getting to know Docker – a better way to do virtualization?
• Installing the Oracle database in docker

 

Common Docker commands

Commands	Purpose
docker info	information
docker images	images
docker ps -a	List all containers
docker rm $(docker ps -a -q)	Remove containers
docker rmi $(docker images)	Remove images
docker save mynewimage > /tmp/mynewimage.tar	Export images
docker load < /tmp/mynewimage.tar	Import images

docker pull oracle/nosql