Debugging slim containers and container images with Docker debug

Jul 2, 2024

I’ve talked a few times over the past months about using slimmed down container images as one of the best practices for containerized workloads (e.g. at Visual Studio Toolbox Live).... [read more]

Set up certificates for Azure Key Vault access during development in a dev container

Jun 22, 2024

I am a big fan of trying to be as close to production even during development as possible. Therefore, if my .NET application needs a connection to an Azure Key... [read more]

Building a BC container image with BuildKit

May 27, 2024

In my last blog post, I shared how you can use BuildKit on Windows to create a very simple Hello World container image. Now I want to show you how... [read more]

Test BuildKit support for Windows

Apr 21, 2024

Maybe you have already seen it, after quite some time, we now have experimental Windows Containers Support for BuildKit. This is great news because BuildKit is far superior to the... [read more]

Getting BC insider artifacts without powershell or a token (and the BC community is great!)

Mar 18, 2024

In a previous blog post I shared how you can use a little Azure Function to get a BC artifact (actually the URL to a BC artifact) without PowerShell by... [read more]

Improve BC container startup performance

Feb 28, 2024

This is a little nugget on how to improve the BC container startup performance, but only in a specific scenario: If you have a persisted database (e.g. by storing the... [read more]

Azure Container Storage - A howto and performance check

Jan 30, 2024

Azure Container Storage (ACS) is a storage solution for containers on the Azure Kubernetes Service. While the preview was already running for a while, a recent update caught my eye... [read more]

Getting OCI annotations / Docker image labels from an Azure Container Registry in Kubernetes

Dec 27, 2023

When you create container images using Dockerfiles, you can easily set up convenient labels to store more information about an image for later retrieval. These follow the definition in the... [read more]

More Power to you: About equality in PowerShell and finding next Monday in Power Automate

Nov 26, 2023

Just two quick lessons I learned in the last few weeks: Lesson 1: Equal isn’t equal in PowerShell when it comes to environment variables This was an issue a colleague... [read more]

Creating a BC only container image

Oct 26, 2023

I sometimes take half a look at at the bccontainerhelper issues and recently one caught my eye: Question: How to create a [Business Central] “service only” container, by KristofKlein. Not... [read more]