If you work on a Linux-based machine as your development environment and you aren't familiar with
Docker yet, check the
What is Docker, then
give it a try. Long story short: Docker is a Linux container; it is
like a virtual machine, but it is not (there are people running Docker on top of Vagrant virtual machines, for example). The most important thing for us here is that it will create a virtual network interface with a virtual IP address.
Download the ZIP or checkout the docker-images Git repository and extract somewhere on your computer. I will use $DOCKER_HOME as a reference to that location.
Copy the wls12130_dev.zip you download previously into $DOCKER_HOME/docker-images/dockerfiles/12.1.3
Call the ../buildDockerImage.sh script(as sudo)and wait for Docker to do its magic
Call docker run -p 8001:8001 oracle/weblogic:12.1.3-developer and see WebLogic going up and running on a Docker container.