With the announcement of SQL Server 2017 last week came the updated microsoft/mssql-server-linux and microsoft/mssql-server-windows* docker images.

By default if you do a docker pull without a tag you will pull down the latest however with these new docker images this no longer works:

Docker pull latest.png

You get the error:

Error response from daemon: manifest for microsoft/mssql-server-linux:latest not found

I found this a bit strange so went onto the docker hub searching for microsoft/mssql images and see if they actually did exist:

Docker images on msft repo.PNG

SQL on Linux is what I was after and you can see from the image above it does exist but taking a close look at the tags tab you can see that they have now amended the tags to be microsoft/mssql-server-linux:2017-GA and microsoft/mssql-server-linux:2017-latest.

SQLonLinux-tags
The new tags

 

SQLonLinux-tags 2
This kind of tells us things have changed!

 

NOTE: The windows docker images still have the “latest” tag available

SQLonWIndows-tags

Now, if we run docker pull with the 2017-GA or 2017-latest tag it will grab it:

docker pull microsoft/mssql-server-linux:2017-GA

Docker pull 2017-GA.png

Obviously I have already done this and the image is up to date 🙂

 

Time to update all my demo scripts 😦