Update- Beta program for SQL Server on Windows container is suspended.
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Update- Beta program for SQL Server on Windows container is suspended.
As you may be aware, the SQL Server on Windows Containers Beta program began in 2017. It has remained in Beta mode meant for only test and development environment until now. Due to the existing ecosystem challenges and usage patterns we have decided to suspend the SQL Server on Windows Containers beta program for foreseeable future. Should the circumstances change, we will revisit the decision at appropriate time and make relevant announcement.
Hence with immediate effect, the docker hub repos "microsoft/mssql-server-windows-express" and
"microsoft/mssql-server-windows-developer" and the tags within these repos will be deleted and images from these repos will not be available for download going forward. We look forward to your continued support and feedback to help us improve.
SQL Server on Linux containers continue to be supported for production environment. This announcement only affects SQL Server on Windows container that was in Beta mode until now.
Thanks,
Amit Khandelwal
Senior Program Manager
Jul 05 2021 05:17 PM
Could you please not delete those repos and images? That is going to break stuff. Folks have builds that depend on these images. At least give some warning rather than "immediate effect".
Yes, SQL Server on Linux is much easier to work with but for some legacy Windows apps that had to run on Server Core, having another Windows container with SQL in it is the only option (seeing as running mixed Windows and Linux containers is pretty much unsupported or very unreliable).
David
Jul 05 2021 11:49 PM
Jul 06 2021 12:03 AM
Jul 06 2021 05:37 AM
I want to run and build Linux and Windows (LCOW) containers simultaneously on the journey to 100% .NET cross-platform.
The mixed-mode Windows/Linux is NOT great on docker desktop; people use Windows containers and Linux containers simultaneously.
I did open an issue a long time ago, https://github.com/docker/roadmap/issues/79 but docker has not taken action. The M1 is more important, and I still believe there is a need for Windows and Linux containers on Windows/WSL with docker-compose.
Suspending MSSQL on windows containers is not great.
Bart Plasmeijer
Jul 06 2021 06:00 AM
I do understand the passion for SQL Server on Windows containers, but as you can see the tags and images were not updated in the last three years for various reasons. One of the reason to delete the mssql-server-windows-developer and mssql-server-windows-express repos and images in those repos is that going forward we do not want any new users and customers downloading it. But if you already have it and are using it you can continue using it and also custom build your SQL Server on Windows images but they are not going be supported as was the case with the images on mssql-server-windows-developer and mssql-server-windows-express as they were in Beta mode which was meant for development and test environment's only.
Jul 06 2021 12:38 PM
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