Microsoft is keeping its SQL Server on Linux containers offering, but ditching its SQL Server on Windows Containers one.
Microsoft has «suspended» its SQL Server on Windows Containers project, as announced in a short blog post on July 5. Microsoft is advising those interested in running SQL Server in containers to go the Linux route instead. Microsoft officials attributed the decision to suspend the SQL Server on Windows Containers beta program «for the foreseeable future» to «the existing ecosystem challenges and usage patterns.» In short, people weren’t using it, even in test and development — which is the only way it has been supported since its start in 2017.
