Docker error: invalid reference format: repository name must be lowercase

Question

Ran into this Docker error with one of my projects:

invalid reference format: repository name must be lowercase

What are the various causes for

Answer 1

In my case the problem was in parameters arrangement. Initially I had --name parameter after environment parameters and then volume and attach_dbs parameters, and image at the end of command like below.

docker run -p 1433:1433 -e sa_password=myComplexPwd -e ACCEPT_EULA=Y --name sql1 -v c:/temp/:c:/temp/ attach_dbs="[{'dbName':'TestDb','dbFiles':['c:\\temp\\TestDb.mdf','c:\\temp\\TestDb_log.ldf']}]" -d microsoft/mssql-server-windows-express

After rearranging the parameters like below everything worked fine (basically putting --name parameter followed by image name).

docker run -d -p 1433:1433 -e sa_password=myComplexPwd -e ACCEPT_EULA=Y --name sql1 microsoft/mssql-server-windows-express -v C:/temp/:C:/temp/ attach_dbs="[{'dbName':'TestDb','dbFiles':['C:\\temp\\TestDb.mdf','C:\\temp\\TestDb_log.ldf']}]"