In my previous post on running SQL Server in a container I showed how you could use the Spoon (https://spoon.net) products to start an instance of SQL Server without having to install it: https://the.agilesql.club/Blog/Ed-Elliott/Containers/Run-SQL-Server-In-A…
In this post I am going to talk about images and how to layer them together and why SQL Server is perfect for this sort of container technology!
What is an image An image is the files and registry keys that make up an application, the sqlserver/sqlserver2012-express image was created by taking taking all of the files and registry keys that were added to a machine during the SQL Server install.
