SQL Server 2022 for RHEL 9 and Ubuntu 22.04 is now Generally Available (GA)

We are happy to announce that Starting CU 10 release for SQL Server 2022 , SQL Server 2022 on RHEL 9 and Ubuntu 22.04 is now generally available (GA), meaning you can run production workload on SQL Server 2022 deployed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 and Ubuntu 22.04. For SQL Server 2022 on RHEL 9, the SELinux integration that enables you to run SQL Server 2022 on RHEL 9 as confined application is also now generally available.

If you've had the preview packages installed previously, we recommend that you please uninstall the preview bits and upgrade to SQL Server 2022 GA packages available at the following repos, for steps on how to update repos refer the Configure repositories for installing and upgrading SQL Server on Linux - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn documentation.

• For RHEL 9 use the repo: Index of /config/rhel/9/
  
• For Ubuntu 22.04 use the repo: Index of /config/ubuntu/22.04/
  

For further details on getting started with the installation of SQL Server 2022 on RHEL 9 refer: RHEL: Install SQL Server on Linux - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn & for SQL Server on Ubuntu 22.04 refer: Ubuntu: Install SQL Server on Linux - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn

SQL Server 2022 container images on RHEL 9 & Ubuntu 22.04 also generally available:

SQL Server 2022 on RHEL 9 and Ubuntu 22.04 are also available as container images and generally available (GA). It is easy for you to get started. Like always, you can use both podman and/or docker tool.

To pull and run the production ready SQL Server 2022 images on RHEL 9 use the tag: 2022-CU10-rhel-9.1

#Pull the image

podman pull mcr.microsoft.com/mssql/rhel/server:2022-CU10-rhel-9.1

#Run a container using the above image

podman run -e 'ACCEPT_EULA=Y' -e 'MSSQL_SA_PASSWORD=<YourP@ssword>' -e 'MSSQL_PID=Developer' -h sql22rhel9 --name sql22rhel9 -p 1433:1433 -d mcr.microsoft.com/mssql/rhel/server:2022-CU10-rhel-9.1

To pull and run the production ready SQL Server 2022 images on Ubuntu 22.04 use the tag: 2022-CU10-ubuntu-22.04

#Pull the image

docker pull mcr.microsoft.com/mssql/server:2022-CU10-ubuntu-22.04

#Run a container use the above image

docker run -e 'ACCEPT_EULA=Y' -e 'MSSQL_SA_PASSWORD=<YourP@ssword>' -e 'MSSQL_PID=Developer' -h sql22ubu2204 --name sql22ubu2204 -p 1433:1433 -d mcr.microsoft.com/mssql/server:2022-CU10-ubuntu-22.04

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