LangGrant Windocks User Docs – Enterprise Edition

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How it works

Overview pages on Windocks concepts, features, supported technologies, and operation.

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GETTING STARTED STEPS

Installing Windocks, building images, creating containers, and automating

BASIC CONCEPTS

SQL Server and Oracle images, containers, clones, and more

Getting Started Steps

Install Windocks

Gather database backups or dumps

Prepare SQL scripts

Create a dockerfile

Configure settings

Build an image from a dockerfile

Create containers / clones from an image

Automate with Powershell, Bash, etc.

Troubleshooting

Basic Concepts

SQL Server – Build an image from a full backup or dump for database cloning with containers

SQL Server – Build an image from a full backup and apply periodic incremental transaction log backups

All about SQL scripts in Windocks

Web application – get started, user account management, SSL

How to connect to Windocks database containers – Connection strings, port forwarding, aliases

DevOps Pipelines & Deployments

Docker command line for Windocks

Windocks REST API with Curl samples

Data Snapshots

Committing containers with data (container snapshots)

Production database point in time snapshots, roll-back

SQL Server specific topics

Reporting service (SSRS) containers

Database clones for traditionally installed SQL Servers

Integration (SSIS), analysis (SSAS), agent in containers

Image pruning and storage optimizations for incrementally updated SQL Server images

TDE encryption

Azure, Azure SQL, AWS RDS, SAN Storage

Installing Windocks in Azure

Using Windocks with Azure Active Directory Domain Services

Using Azure File Shares with Windocks

Dev/test/staging environments for Azure SQL

Dev/test/staging environments for AWS RDS

Database containers with clones from a SAN (PureStorage, Cohesity, NetApp etc)

Config settings, Dockerfile

Proxy server configuration