Artifacts
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Removing all specific NAV and Business Central Docker Images
On October 27th 2017, I posted the first announcement which introduced NAV on Docker. For approx. 3 years we published Docker images first to Docker Hub and later to Microsoft Container Registry for both Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019. Many 1000 images was pushed to the container registries until we during the summer of 2020 changed strategy to use artifacts together with the generic image. The various versions of specific images on different container OS’ amounts to more...
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July updates are out – they are the last on-premises docker images
Update 2021/2/10: BcContainerHelper has replaced NavContainerHelper. This blog post still reference NavContainerHelper, which is outdated. Business Central and NAV July 2020 on-premises updates was published over the weekend and this is going to be the last on-premises version of Business Central and NAV released as a docker image. The existing docker images will stay on mcr.microsoft.com for some time still, but no new on premises images will be added. If this is news to you, you should read https://freddysblog.com/2020/06/25/changing-the-way-you-run-business-central-in-docker/ and...
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The ARM Templates now supports artifacts… (and images)
Update 2021/2/10: BcContainerHelper has replaced NavContainerHelper. This blog post still reference NavContainerHelper, which is outdated. I know a lot of partners and customers are using the Business Central ARM templates to create an Azure VM, which runs a specific version of Business Central (or NAV). This blog post describes what changed. Images still supported First of all, the ARM templates still supports docker images. This means that if you are provisioning Azure VMs using the ARM templates through a PowerShell...
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Run Business Central in docker using a custom generic image
Update 2021/2/10: BcContainerHelper has replaced NavContainerHelper. This blog post still reference NavContainerHelper, which is outdated. The change to running Business Central in docker using artifacts also opens a new opportunity of running Business Central using a custom generic image. Why would you do that? Most people will probably not have to create their own generic image, but if you for some reason aren’t satisfied with the internals of the generic image, maybe you want a different version of SQL inside...
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The Hello World CI/CD sample
Update 2021/2/10: BcContainerHelper has replaced NavContainerHelper. This blog post still reference NavContainerHelper, which is outdated. Quite a few partners have build their CI/CD pipelines based on the HelloWorld CI/CD sample repository here: https://dev.azure.com/businesscentralapps/HelloWorld (the one used in the Hands On Lab – http://aka.ms/cicdhol). I have just finished the upgrade of this repository to use artifacts instead of docker images. This blog post describes the changes done. Settings.json https://dev.azure.com/businesscentralapps/HelloWorld/_git/HelloWorld?path=%2Fscripts%2Fsettings.json Settings.json was changed to include artifacts instead of container images. Also I...
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CI/CD and artifacts
Update 2021/2/10: BcContainerHelper has replaced NavContainerHelper. This blog post still reference NavContainerHelper, which is outdated. Only a few days have gone since releasing information about how to run Business Central in docker using artifacts and already a lot of people have tried this out and a lot of people are looking into changing their CI/CD pipelines to use artifacts. On premises / Specific version If your pipeline is running using an om-premises build or using a specific version of NAV...
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Working with artifacts
Update 2021/2/10: BcContainerHelper has replaced NavContainerHelper. This blog post still reference NavContainerHelper, which is outdated. As a follow up to this blog post (make sure you have read this first), this blog post will share some details about working with artifacts. How do you find them, what do they contain and what happens when you try to use them. It is primarily a list of the new functionality in NavContainerHelper for working with artifacts. I will also provide a blog...
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Changing the way you run Business Central in docker…
Update 2021/2/10: BcContainerHelper has replaced NavContainerHelper. This blog post still reference NavContainerHelper, which is outdated. Just as you thought you were getting the hang of running Business Central in docker, then you see this title! Your first thought is probably how big the changes are to your pipelines and to your scripts and how much time you will have to perform these changes. Easy now! Nothing will have to change overnight – everything that worked yesterday should still work and...
