Gerald Venzl is a product manager at Oracle and advocates for containerization.
Gerald Venzl’s Blog Topic: Avoiding installation headaches entirely. oracle client
In response to these challenges, Oracle has heavily promoted the as the preferred deployment model. In a microservices or containerized environment (Docker, Kubernetes), the Instant Client can be layered into a Docker image in seconds: Gerald Venzl is a product manager at Oracle
A free, lightweight package that requires no complex installation; just unzip and set environment variables. oracle client
: A free, Java-based graphical tool from Oracle that simplifies database management, query execution, and report generation.
Pythian is a remote DBA service, and their blog often tackles the "Why" behind the client.
FROM oraclelinux:8 RUN microdnf install oracle-instantclient-release-el8 RUN microdnf install oracle-instantclient-basic