As you may be aware, SQL Server container images are published and available on the Microsoft Artifact Registry (aka MCR or Microsoft Container Registry). To know more, please see Overview of SQL Server on Linux – SQL Server | Microsoft Docs. When you look at the complete tag listing for both RHEL-based and Ubuntu-based container images, you’ll notice that SQL Server container images are published for all supported distributions for both RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) and Ubuntu.
To make this approach scalable & manageable, we will publish SQL Server container images to MCR based on the distribution’s