Using AAD authentication for development against a Business Central container

Jan 18, 2022

Since a long time, it is possible to use Azure AD authentication in your Business Central OnPrem environment, whether containerized or not. But what isn’t possible - or at least... [read more]

Catch you later, COSMO

Dec 31, 2021

If you are looking for the usual technical content on my blog, this is one of the posts you can skip because I want to share something else and entirely... [read more]

Deploying Business Central in an Azure Container Instance using Bicep

Dec 27, 2021

More than four years ago, I blogged about the usage of Azure Container Instances for Business Central (well, NAV at that time) including an Azure Quickstart Template and I wanted... [read more]

Exploring files from a Windows container host through Filebrowser

Nov 8, 2021

Having a web-based file explorer functionality for a Windows-Server-base container host is a surprisingly difficult task. In our COSMO Azure DevOps & Docker Self-Service, we always include an Azure File... [read more]

Connecting a BC container to an external SQL server

Oct 13, 2021

As part of my DynamicsCon session in September 2021, I wanted to show how you can connect a Business Central container to an existing SQL Server. Unfortunately, I ran out... [read more]

More news for Windows (Server) containers

Sep 29, 2021

Update: I got some feedback after posting this, so I changed and added some aspects, all marked with Update:/Update end for those who read it before and only want to... [read more]

News in the Windows container and Docker world

Sep 2, 2021

The last couple of days brought a lot of news for the container world, especially for those using Windows containers or Docker Desktop. As it can be difficult to follow... [read more]

Docker container stack deployments with dependent files through Portainer

Aug 29, 2021

I have written before about the recently released Portainer feature of deploying a Docker container stack from a git repo. A part of that feature that I didn’t immediately understand... [read more]

MS SQL Server in Windows containers

Jul 18, 2021

Running databases in containers is maybe not the most intuitive usage of containers, but certainly stateful containers in general are no longer completely out of limits, and that means that... [read more]

Use Portainer to deploy and update Docker container stacks from a git repo

Jun 5, 2021

This will be a quick intro to an upcoming feature in Portainer, but please note that as of today (June 5th 2021) this is in preview, so you shouldn’t use... [read more]