I have had a few people come back and complain about high CPU usage when using Business Central Containers, so I decided to look into this, and see what could be done. Continue reading
CPU usage in Business Central Containers
4
Category Archives: Docker
Debugging “hangs” in Business Central Spring 2019 RTM and CU1
During the last week, we have seen an increasing number of people having issues with debugging in VS Code against a Docker Container running Business Central. At the same time, we had a LOT of people using VS Code and the debugger every day with absolutely no issue. Continue reading
Business Central Fall 2019 Preview Availability
There is a lot of excitement and buzz these days and partners have approached me asking for the insider builds from our master branch.
Hold back on the search, we will NOT be creating Docker builds or preview DVDs from our master branch for a little while. Let me elaborate… Continue reading
Windows 10 1903 (and Business Central Containers)
Some weeks ago, I read about Windows 10 1903 in a blog post from Mike Fortin here: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2019/04/04/improving-the-windows-10-update-experience-with-control-quality-and-transparency. Since general rolllout wasn’t until May, I decided to wait until after Directions NA to do my update.
1903 was made available on MSDN and internally for people who wanted to update early and I didn’t really pay too much attention to this. Two evenings ago, a colleague ping’ed m e with an error when trying to create a container. Looking at the output, the containerhelper identified his Windows version as unknown/insider. Continue reading
Bugfix: Something went wrong
I have had a few partners reporting a strange bug when using the Web Client in Business Central spring release. Running tests, applying configuration packages or running other long running tasks in the Web Client sometimes would result in an error stating: Something went wrong. Continue reading
Running Tests in Containers
Since the very start of NAV and Business Central on Containers, it has been possible to run tests through the UI (Windows Client and Web Client), just as you have been able to do when you install directly on a machine. A lot of people have however been looking for a way to run tests automated – and… – since NavContainerHelper 0.5.0.3 (February 25th) a function called Run-TestsInNavContainer has been available. A few changes has been implemented since then and I am now ready to describe how to use the function. Continue reading
Placing the database on the host…
I have had quite a few partners asking me how to connect a NAV / Business Central container to a SQL Server placed on the host. Even though this sounds like a simple question, it isn’t easy to answer. Continue reading
