Setup Oracle Database

Sets up Oracle Database using container images from gvenzl/oci-oracle-free.

❗	Only Linux runners are supported for the time being.

Inputs

Following inputs may be used as step.with keys:

Name	Required	Default	Description
tag		latest	Valid image tag from gvenzl/oci-oracle-free
port		1521	Exposed port for database connections
volume			Volume to be mounted to contain database files
oracle-password			Password for the Oracle Database SYS and SYSTEM users
oracle-database			Create a new pluggable database with the specified name
app-user	true		Create a new database schema user with the specified name
app-user-password	true		Define a password for the database schema user specified by app-user
setup-scripts			Path to folder with additional database setup scripts
startup-scripts			Path to folder with additional database startup scripts
container-name		oracledb	Name for the database container
container-network			Connects the container to an already established network.
health-max-retries		60	Number of tries for checking that the database is up
health-interval		3	Time interval between health checks, in seconds
container-runtime		podman	The container runtime to use (podman or docker)

A random password will be generated automatically if a value for oracle-password is not supplied.

Usage

Basic usage

All defaults enabled as explained here.

jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: gvenzl/setup-oracle-free@v1
        with:
          app-user: <username>
          app-user-password: <password>

ℹ️	You must define values of app-user and app-user-password, either explicitly, via env vars, or secrets.

Custom Database Password

Set a custom database password that you may use at a later step to perform admin operations.

jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: gvenzl/setup-oracle-free@v1
        with:
          app-user: <username>
          app-user-password: <password>
          oracle-password: ${{ secrets.ORACLE_PASSWORD }}

ℹ️	Use a secret or explicitly mask the password before using it.

Persistent Database Container

Database files placed at ~/database-files inside the GitHub Action runner will be read and used. You may choose a different location according to your needs.

jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - run: mkdir ${{ github.workspace }}/database-files
      - uses: gvenzl/setup-oracle-free@v1
        with:
          app-user: <username>
          app-user-password: <password>
          volume: ${{ github.workspace }}/database-files

ℹ️	The directory ~/database-files must be writtable by the oracle (uid: 54321) user.

Init scripts

SQL scripts placed at ~/my-scripts inside the GitHub Action runner will be used to post initialize the database.

jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: gvenzl/setup-oracle-free@v1
        with:
          app-user: <username>
          app-user-password: <password>
          startup-scripts: ${{ github.workspace }}/my-scripts

Why

The documentation from gvenzl/oci-oracle-free shows that GitHub services may be used with the images. An example is shown next:

    services:
      # Oracle service (label used to access the service container)
      oracle:
        # Docker Hub image (feel free to change the tag "latest" to any other available one)
        image: gvenzl/oracle-free:latest

        # Provide passwords and other environment variables to container
        env:
          ORACLE_RANDOM_PASSWORD: true
          APP_USER: my_user
          APP_USER_PASSWORD: my_password_which_I_really_should_change

        # Forward Oracle port
        ports:
          - 1521:1521

        # Provide healthcheck script options for startup
        options: >-
          --health-cmd healthcheck.sh
          --health-interval 10s
          --health-timeout 5s
          --health-retries 10

This action builds on top of the capabilities offered by gvenzl/oci-oracle-free adding the following options:

• managed docker image name & tag

• managed database port

• automatic mapping of database volume path (mapped to /opt/oracle/oradata)

• automatic mapping of external database initialization scripts

• automatic health checks upon starting the container

Thus, switching from container service to action results in the following configuration:

jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: gvenzl/setup-oracle-free@v1
        with:
          app-user: my_user
          app-user-password: my_password_which_I_really_should_change

Updating this configuration to persist the database volume between runs:

jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - run: mkdir ${{ github.workspace }}/database-files
      - uses: gvenzl/setup-oracle-free@v1
        with:
          app-user: my_user
          app-user-password: my_password_which_I_really_should_change
          volume: ${{ github.workspace }}/database-files