I have been experimenting with running Sitecore on Docker containers for a couple of months now and I am having a lot of fun with it. If you work with many clients at the same time like I do, running Sitecore on Docker brings the big benefit to setup and spin up a client environment in few minutes, simplifying the local environment setup process and eliminating the conflicts that might rise hosting multiple versions of Sitecore instances on a single host machine. If you haven’t tried it yet, I highly recommend to do it.

In this blog post I will describe how to override the default command executed in a Docker container running a sitecore-<topology>-sql image to restore Sitecore databases using SQL database backups generated from a non-Docker SQL server.

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