Last week Gerald Venzl announced on his blog that Oracle XE 18c was available. You can download Oracle XE at oracle.com/xe.

Since it was announced Adrian Png created a Docker image and I've been working with him help ensure that the data files can be preserved even when the container is destroyed.

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Using the new Oracle XE 18c Docker script you can now build your own Docker image and run your Oracle XE as a container. I recommend that anyone planning to use Oracle XE on their laptop look at using this Docker image rather installing locally or a VM (more on this in a future article).

In the future Oracle may release its own official Docker image for Oracle XE. I will update this post when such an image is available.