Thom A - Sunday, May 6, 2018 10:13 AM

I had no luck either I'm afraid Eirikur. It seems that, at the moment, SQL Server 2017 on Linux doesn't support OpenSSL 1.1.0g (which is odd, as to me that's version <=1.1.0 still, unless anything after the original is no good). I had a look at the versions available on 18.04 (apt-cache policy openssl), however, it seems that on 1.1.0g is available.

From the documentation it does imply the only supported version is 16.04 (although I had no problems with 17.04, and 17.10 only needed a little tweaking). In the end I created a 16.04 container (using LXD/LXC) and then installed SQL Server on that. Then, afterwards, I pushed my databases files from the host machine to the container and reattached the databases.

Although you could create a 17.04 container, I'd recommend 16.04, as that's a LTS distribution. 17.04 ended support in January, 17.10's support ends in August (iirc), and 14.04 doesn't support SQL Server as far as I know.