Using Docker is an effortless way to launch and run an application/server software without annoying installation hassles: Just run the image and you’re done.
Even if it’s quite an uncomplicated way of looking at it, in many cases it works just like that.
So, let’s start with using Microsoft SQL Server as a database backend. We will use a docker image from Microsoft. Look here to find out more.
❯ docker run -e "ACCEPT_EULA=Y" -e "SA_PASSWORD=secret" -p 1433:1433 mcr.microsoft.com/mssql/server:2022-latest
Depending on how your docker environment is configured, this could bring up an error:
SQL Server 2019 will run as non-root by default.
This container is running as user mssql.
To learn more visit https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2099216.
sqlservr: This program requires a machine with at least 2000 megabytes of memory.
/opt/mssql/bin/sqlservr: This program requires a machine with at least 2000 megabytes of memory.
As the error message states, the MS SQL server needs at least 2g of RAM. So, you must assign your Docker VMs more memory. This is configured in the Docker Dashboard.
Hint: Docker has two ways of running containers:
using Windows Container
using WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)
You can change the way with the context menu of the docker symbol in the task bar:
With Linux Containers (using WSL as backend), you must configure the containers via a file .wslconfig.
This file is in the folder defined by the environment variable
To open the file, run the command:
From Command Prompt
notepad
Edit the content and change the memory setting
[wsl2]
memory=3GB
Restart WSL with the new settings.
❯ wsl --shutdown
Start Container again, now everything should work
❯ docker run -e "ACCEPT_EULA=Y" -e "SA_PASSWORD=secret" -p 1433:1433 mcr.microsoft.com/mssql/server:2022-latest
version: '3.8'
services:
app:
build:
context: .
dockerfile: Dockerfile
container_name: pws_prolog
volumes:
- ../workspace:/workspace:cached
# Overrides default command so things don't shut down after the process ends.
command: /bin/sh -c "while sleep 1000; do :; done"
.devcontainer\Dockerfile
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# STAGE 1:
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FROM ubuntu:latest as base_nodejs
# Configure Timezone
ENV TZ 'Europe/Berlin'
RUN echo $TZ > /etc/timezone
RUN apt-get update \
&& apt-get install -y tzdata \
&& rm /etc/localtime \
&& ln -snf /usr/share/zoneinfo/$TZ /etc/localtime \
&& dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive tzdata \
&& apt-get clean
#
RUN apt-get install --yes build-essential curl sudo git vim
# Create user
RUN groupadd work -g 1000 \
&& adduser user --uid 1000 --gid 1000 --home /workspace --disabled-password --gecos User
# Setup sudo
RUN echo
# Install Prolog
RUN apt-get -y install swi-prolog
#
USER user
VOLUME [ "/workspace" ]
WORKDIR /workspace
CMD ["/bin/bash"]
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