Azure Cosmos Emulator docker image is broken

[soenneker]

The Azure Cosmos DB emulator docker image is broken

Hi Azure Cosmos team, Hopefully this can get some visibility and reach the people who can fix this.

I filed the first bug on this almost two years ago: https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks/issues/15865

To boil it down: on Ubuntu 20 and later, agents that have an Intel processor fail to start with the error: This is an evaluation version. There are [165] days left in the evaluation period. Ubuntu 18 worked, but those images are no longer available on the major platforms. Since an action may or may not receive an agent with an Intel processor, the error doesn't occur 100% of the time.

This issue is currently blocking anyone who wants to use the emulator in a Linux action.

I know that the Windows runners have the emulator built into them, but one issue is containers on Windows aren't able to be run within GitHub. I know that we can run a custom agent, but that shouldn't be necessary.

Please, let me know how I can help!

Here are many, many issues talking about this problem, spanning all types of projects, stackoverflow, etc... This isn't an exhaustive list, there are so many more:

https://github.com/Azure/azure-cosmos-db-emulator-docker/issues/85 https://github.com/Azure/azure-cosmos-db-emulator-docker/issues/84 https://github.com/Azure/azure-cosmos-db-emulator-docker/issues/81 https://github.com/Azure/azure-cosmos-db-emulator-docker/issues/77 https://github.com/Azure/azure-cosmos-db-emulator-docker/issues/66 https://github.com/Azure/azure-cosmos-db-emulator-docker/issues/64 https://github.com/Azure/azure-cosmos-db-emulator-docker/issues/60 https://github.com/Azure/azure-cosmos-db-emulator-docker/issues/45 https://github.com/Azure/azure-cosmos-db-emulator-docker/issues/87 https://github.com/Azure/azure-cosmos-db-emulator-docker/issues/56

https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/visualstudio-docs/issues/9970 https://github.com/Azure/azure-cosmos-dotnet-v3/issues/3010 https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/5036 https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/6111

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1089628/azure-cosmos-emulator-the-evaluation-period-has-ex https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68187668/cosmos-db-emulator-for-linux-docker-this-is-an-evaluation-version-there-are-1 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50333215/cosmos-db-emulator https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74440386/azure-cosmos-db-emulator-linux-image-does-not-start-error-the-evaluation-perio https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76282676/health-check-failing-for-cosmos-db-emulator https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1088903/unable-to-start-cosmosdb-emulator-for-linux-docker https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1393449/while-installing-cosmosdb-emulator-locally-with-do

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