UC Local APEX Dev

Get Oracle 26ai with APEX and ORDS running in minutes. Automate the tedious parts of local APEX development.

A containerized development environment (works with Docker, Podman, or any container runtime) that automates common tasks and lets you focus on building APEX applications.

Features

• ✅ One-command operations: create users, backups, clear schemas, test installs
• ✅ Create APEX workspaces and database schemas with optimal development grants
• ✅ All users automatically registered in SQLcl and VS Code for instant access
• ✅ Built-in Oracle DataPump backup and restore
• ✅ ORDS with SSL support for production-like local development
• ✅ Test APEX application installs repeatedly in isolated test schemas
• ✅ Full PL/SQL debugging support with VS Code SQL Developer

⚠️ This is not for production use! Intentionally unsecure and optimized for ease of development. Passwords stored in plain text, security features relaxed. For local development only.

Installation Guide

Documentation

For complete setup instructions, configuration guides, and usage examples, visit our documentation site:

📖 UC Local APEX Dev Documentation

The documentation includes:

• Installation Guide
• Common Tasks & Commands
• Backups
• Migration Guides

Contributing

If you have any ideas on how to improve this setup, please create an issue or a pull request.

I am especially thankful for improvements to the bash scripts.

Special thanks

• The contributors for their help
• Tim Hall for the drop_all.sql script
• Philipp Salvisberg for helping me to figure out how to use the debugger
• Scott Spendolini for his blog post on how to add self-signed certificates to ORDS
• Matt Mulvaney for his blog post on unexpiring ORDS accounts
• The database team for providing an ARM image for the Oracle database
• The ORDS team for providing an ARM image for ORDS

The cherry on top would be Oracle making APEX patches free to download for everyone.