Running the docker commands from a Windows client causes the container to exit immediately about mssql-docker

[bmmathe]

My colleague just informed me that when running -e parameters in the Windows Docker CLI you must use double quotes instead of single ticks (at least when using CMD).

[twright-msft]

@bmmathe - Can you please clarify - are you trying to run a SQL on Linux container on Docker for Windows or a SQL on Windows container?

[bmmathe]

I'm using the sample located here: https://hub.docker.com/r/microsoft/mssql-server-linux/
My Docker host is Ubuntu running in Azure yet I'm running the docker commands from my local Windows 10 machine. I have my docker cli environment setup to point to the Linux host. All other docker run commands work with no problems but when I run "docker run -e 'ACCEPT_EULA=Y' -e 'SA_PASSWORD=' -p 1433:1433 -d microsoft/mssql-server-linux" the command exits. If I run docker ps -a I can see that the container only ran for a couple seconds. When I pipe the stdout and stderr out to the console (-a stdout -a stderr) I can see that the container issues an "ERROR: You must accept the EULA" comment.

To workaround this I spun up a different Ubuntu box in Azure and ran the same command from it pointing my docker cli to the same host and it worked with no problems.

I believe the issue is with the -e argument. The way it interacts with the command Environment Variables does not work in Windows.

Here is a copy of my command window with the password removed:

docker run -e 'ACCEPT_EULA=Y' -e 'SA_PASSWORD=' -p 1433:1433 -a stdin -a stdout -a stderr microsoft/mssql-server-linux
ERROR: You must accept the End User License Agreement before this container
can start. The End User License Agreement can be found at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=746388.
Set the environment variable ACCEPT_EULA to 'Y' if you accept the agreement.

[LuisBosquez]

Thanks for finding this @bmmathe! I have added this to the README under Troubleshooting.

[rabih-harb]

$ docker run -e "ACCEPT_EULA=Y" -e "SA_PASSWORD=abc@123" -p 1433:1433 -a stdin -a stdout -a stderr microsoft/mssql-server-linux <---
u get this
Configuring Microsoft(R) SQL Server(R)...

[maxfunke]

As i used -a stdin -a stout -a stderr I realized that there actually is a notification, why the container stopped/never started:

sqlservr: This program requires a machine with at least 3250 megabytes of memory.

So I just had to increase memory for docker and it run just fine.