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]

Develop Azure DevOps extensions

May 30, 2021

Since around 2013 I am using Azure DevOps or at that time Team Foundation Server. I wasn’t a huge fan in the early days, but it has gotten continuously better... [read more]

Running Linux and Windows containers at the same time on Windows 10

Apr 24, 2021

I am typically using Docker on my Windows 10 laptop for dev containers, which (unfortunately) means only Linux containers, although my professional context mostly is Windows-oriented. However I recently did... [read more]