Microsoft SQL Server is still used by many organizations. And migration to Cloud native can be a blocked by having this technology. In order to help organization to lift-shift to Cloud Native, they can run also MS SQL in kubernetes via this Helm chart

DISCLAIMER BY DEPLOYING THIS HELM CHART, YOU ARE ACCEPTING THE END-USER Licensing Agreement of Microsoft SQL Server

Install

Verify the helm chart via cosign

export COSIGN_PUBLIC_KEY=$(curl https://gitlab.com/xrow.keys | grep rsa | ssh-keygen -f /dev/stdin -e -m pem)
cosign verify --key env://COSIGN_PUBLIC_KEY registry.gitlab.com/xrow-public/helm-mssql/charts/mssql:1.1.3

values.yaml

---
global:
  storageClass: "openebs-kernel-nfs" # Change this

auth:
  database: test
  rootPassword: 'yourStrong(#)Password'
  username: test
  password: 'yourStrong(#)Password'

helm upgrade --install mssql oci://registry.gitlab.com/xrow-public/helm-mssql/charts/mssql --version 1.1.3 --create-namespace -n mssql -f values.yaml

values.yaml

Check default values of this chart here .

Features

Applying Helm Chart standards
Ability to specify own registry
Persisting data
Auto Bootstrapping Database
Auto Bootstraping Database Owner User with given password
Ability to execute initial DB scripts (SQL)
Performance Monitoring - Integrated with Prometheus Operator

Data initalisation via init folder

FROM registry.gitlab.com/xrow-public/helm-mssql:1.1.3

COPY *.sql /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d

Test the container

podman build -t mssql .
docker run -e 'ACCEPT_EULA=Y' -e 'MSSQL_SA_PASSWORD=<YourStrong#Passw0rd>' -p 1433:1433 -v sqlvolume:/var/opt/mssql -it localhost/mssql:1.1.3

Credits

Credits to ElmCompany for inital work.