Host the Swagger UI for your BC OpenAPI spec in your BC container

Jun 29, 2022

Business Central has become a pretty open ERP system with maybe not a great, but certainly a fair API, that can be used to integrate with 3rd party applications or... [read more]

Running Traefik in a container on a modern Windows Server version

May 28, 2022

Traefik is one of the most popular choices for reverse proxies, especially in containerized environments where it is extremely easy to set up and configure. However, due to a limitation... [read more]

Running Teslalogger with Portainer

Apr 30, 2022

This time, a blog post about “non-business tech”, but of course containerized and with Portainer: Teslalogger is a self-hosted data logger for Tesla cars. The idea of this and similar... [read more]

Test / dev Windows VM setup on Azure

Mar 26, 2022

I have written about remote development in the past (1, 2), but in the last couple of month and years, I have also had more and more occasions where it... [read more]

Get your BC artifact URLs without PowerShell

Feb 19, 2022

In June 2020, a drastic change happened to how we can work with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central in containers: Instead of ready made images, BC started to rely on... [read more]

World, meet 4PS Germany

Feb 3, 2022

The time has come to share the news: I am extremely happy that I am now part of the 4PS Group family! This allows me to stay in my technology... [read more]

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]