The SQL Server DBA’s Guide to Docker Containers: Agile Deployment without Infrastructure Lock-in

© Edwin M Sarmiento 2020

E. M. SarmientoThe SQL Server DBA’s Guide to Docker Containers https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5826-2_3

3. Install and Configure Docker on Linux

Edwin M Sarmiento¹ 

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Ottawa, ON, Canada

 

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.

—Bette Davis

I still cannot believe I’m writing this chapter – about Linux, for SQL Server DBAs. In Chapter 1, I mentioned how Microsoft brought SQL Server to Linux in 2017. That came as a big surprise to a lot of SQL Server DBAs who have only known SQL Server as a relational database engine that runs on a Windows operating system. But just like any technological innovation, you can either choose to embrace it or ignore it. Embracing it gives you an opportunity ...