Friday Reading 2018-07-27

Phew, I’m not going to complain about the hot weather…I’ll miss it when it’s gone.
Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery

Good...

Creating SQL images in Azure with ACR Build – Part Two

EDIT – 2018-10 – ACR Build is now known as ACR Tasks
In Part One I detailed how we can use ACR Build...

Taking the Linux plunge

I’m a Windows guy.
Kinda have had to be, given my profession as a SQL Server DBA. But recently I’ve become...

Friday Reading 2018-07-20

Haven’t posted one of these for a while! It’s good to have some time back to be able to read/write.
I’ve...

Creating SQL images in Azure with ACR Build – Part One

Whenever I’ve pushed images up to an Azure Container Registry I’ve been building them locally (using Docker for Windows) and...

Downtime

I was speaking at a conference recently and when I bumped into a friend, the first thing she said to...

SQL Saturday Cork 2018

This coming weekend (9th of June) is SQL Saturday Cork!
I’ve been really looking forward to this SQL Sat as there’s...

Deploying Azure Container Instances

In a previous post I went through how to Push an image to the Azure Container Registry
Now let’s look at...

Pushing SQL Server images to the Azure Container Registry

The Azure Container Registry is an online repository for storing Docker images (think the Docker Hub).
What’s cool about this is...

Loopback available for Windows Containers

The April 2018 update for Windows brought a few cool things but the best one (imho) is that now we...