Automate the installation of Oracle JDK 8 and 10 on RHEL and Debian derivatives

Automating the Oracle JDK installation on RHEL derivatives (such as CentOS, Oracle Linux) and Debian derivatives (such as Mint, Ubuntu) differs. This is due to different package managers and repositories. In this blog I'll provide quick instructions on how to automate the installation of Oracle JDK 8 and 10 on different Linux distributions. I chose JDK 8 and 10 since they are currently the only Oracle JDK versions which receive public updates (see here).

Running Spring Boot in a Docker container on OpenJDK, Oracle JDK, Zulu on Alpine Linux, Oracle Linux, Ubuntu

Spring Boot is great for running inside a Docker container. Spring Boot applications 'just run'. A Spring Boot application has an embedded servlet engine making it independent of application servers. There is a Spring Boot Maven plugin available to easily create a JAR file which contains all required dependencies. This JAR file can be run with a single command-line like 'java -jar SpringBootApp.jar'. For running it in a Docker container, you only require a base OS and a JDK. In this blog post I'll give examples on how to get started with different OSs and different JDKs in Docker. I'll finish with an example on how to build a Docker image with a Spring Boot application in it.

Getting started with Oracle Database in a Docker container!

One of the benefits of using Docker is quick and easy provisioning. I wanted to find out first-hand if this could help me get an Oracle Enterprise Edition database quickly up and running for use in a development environment. Oracle provides Docker images for its Standard and Enterprise Edition database in the Oracle Container Registry. Lucas Jellema has already provided two blogs on this (here and here) which have been a useful starting point. In this blog I'll describe some of the choices to make and challenges I encountered. To summarize, I'm quite happy with the Docker images in the registry as they provide a very easy way to automate the install of an EE database. You can find a Vagrant provisioning shell script with the installation of Docker and Docker commands to execute here and a description on how to use it here.