With our community technology previews of SQL Server 2017, Microsoft is bringing the industry-leading performance and security of SQL Server to Linux and containers for the first time. SQL Server running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform has advantages for both the SQL Server and Red Hat Linux communities.Join this webinar by experts from Red Hat and Microsoft as we cover:The capabilities of Microsoft SQL Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift Container PlatformAdvantage of running Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on-premises and in Microsoft AzureA demo of application compatibility between SQL Server on Windows and SQL Server on Red Hat Enterprise LinuxRegister now to attend. The webcast takes place Tuesday, July 11, 2017 at noon EDT / 9 a.m. PDT.SpeakersDon SchenckDirector, Developer Experience, Red HatDon Schenck, Red Hat director of Developer Experience, focuses on Microsoft .NET on Linux. His mission is to bring .NET developers into the Linux and open source communities. Before joining Red Hat, Don was a developer advocate at Rackspace. He is the author of Transitioning to .NET Core on Linux, an OReilly book.Vin YuProgram manager, MicrosoftVin Yu, Microsoft program manager, is on the SQL Server team, where he works with developers and companies adopting SQL Server on Linux. Vin is also interested in improving developer experiences, database monitoring, and tools.from SQL Server Blog http://ift.tt/2tRdh5s This post was authored by Rohan Kumar, General Manager, Database Systems GroupSQL Server 2017 makes it easier and simpler to work with data, with more deployment options than before and monthly preview releases offering regular innovation and improvements. The momentum behind these new options is clear. We are excited to mark a new milestone: Last week, SQL Server on Linux passed 1 million pulls of its container image! The image has been on Docker Hub for the six months since we first launched the SQL Server on Linux public preview in November 2016, with steadily growing customer use. In fact, we now have customers like dv01 going into production with SQL Server 2017 in Docker containers using the production support agreement from our Early Adoption Program (EAP). The container image is also available in the Docker Store, where its currently one of the featured images.Customer interest in containers is high because of the benefits for production, and especially development and test: consistent and reliable behavior across environments, in a lightweight and easy- to-use format. Containers are fast to set up, can easily be stopped and started, and give users the ability to spin up multiple containers together using tools like docker-compose to easily start and interconnect database, application, and other services containers in a micro-services architecture.SQL Server on Linux containers has been tested extensively in our test lab over the course of SQL Server 2017 public previews. We have been deploying SQL Server on a 150-node Kubernetes cluster in Azure to test each successive monthly Community Technology Preview (CTP). For each test pass, we automatically deploy 750 containers and run over a million tests. In addition to Kubernetes, we are testing on other container platforms