First published on MSDN on Feb 11, 2018
The Windows Server Core container images of
SQL Server 2017 Developer
&
Express
based on
Windows Server version 1709
are now available on
Docker Hub
! These can be used in both Windows Server Containers as well as Hyper-V Containers.
Windows Server version 1709
brings the following important improvements that developers can take advantage of with the updated container images.
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First of all, the microsoft/windowsservercore image underneath SQL shrunk by more than 2GB, so the SQL Server images are also 2GB smaller.
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The networking support for containers was improved to support
Kubernetes
, now at beta in version 1.9 beta on Windows, and
routing mesh
with Docker Swarm.
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If you want to store your databases on remote storage, you can now by using
global SMB mounts
(New-SMBGlobalMapping) along with a docker volume (docker run -v c:\shared:c:\data microsoft/mssql-express-…).
Supported Operating Systems
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Windows Server Core version 1709
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Windows 10 version 1709
Docker Pull Commands
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SQL Server 2017 Developer (Windows based container)
: docker pull microsoft/mssql-server-windows-developer:1709
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SQL Server 2017 Express (Windows based container)
: docker pull microsoft/mssql-server-windows-express:1709
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