You probably know this. I just write this post because I didn’t up until today.
I’m using Docker quite regularly (well, if you find “pulling an image twice a day” is regular) .. and I have been using mostly these two repositories according my needs (for more info, look here):
Data gone
Since quite some time, the databases on this image didn’t hold any data anymore. We could import data using RapidStart Packages – and for a while, this is what I did .. . If you want to know more, here you can find some more info:
This could take a while – so I only did it when I really needed demo data.
base-tag
Up until today, when a colleague found out that there is actually a docker tag we can set that is the W1-version WITH data! The magic tag is “base”. He found it somewhere deep in the github-issue-list, as a comment by Freddy. To quote Freddy:
If you use microsoft/bcsandbox:base, then you will get w1 demo data.
base is the foundation of all languages and will contain the on-prem w1 db.
master insider builds with :w1 will contain the saas demo data.
So there you go – I changed all my scripts so they use these docker images now:
And VOILA – data!