CI/CD
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Structuring your AL-Go for GitHub repositories
When developing apps for Business Central, you very frequently will have more than one app. You might split one customer specific app into multiple smaller apps or you might have a common app, which contains common functionality for all your customer specific or AppSource apps. This blog post describes the thinking behind AL-Go for GitHub and how we recommend you setup your GitHub repository structure and why… High Level Use the shipping vehicle to determine the repository/project structure. On a...
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Migrating to AL-Go for GitHub
As explained in the first blog post about AL-Go for GitHub the next post would be all about how to migrate your repository to AL-Go for GitHub. Whether you have a setup based on the first CI/CD Hands-On-Lab or you have the latest generation, it should be fairly easy to migrate to AL-Go and get all the benefits with that, but it is a manual process. The following scenarios are described in this post: From a CI/CD HOL based repo...
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BcContainerHelper version 2.0.1
Version 2.0.1 of BcContainerHelper was shipped with a number of very exciting new featuers. This blog post will list the features and I will have to document them elsewhere. Run-AlPipeline and Compile-AppInBcContainer with -failOn ‘error’ will now mark a build as succeeded with Warnings if there are warnings in the build. New-BcContainer with -FilesOnly will create a container with no service tier, no sql database, no IIS, just all the files from a normal docker container copied to a container...
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Run-AlValidation and Run-AlCops
On December 1st, I co-hosted a webinar about how people can make sure that their app passes AppSource Validation. Until now, I have always been preaching that people should run CI/CD and include AppSourceCop validation in their CI/CD pipeline, which is supported in the Run-AlPipeline function. But…, as I prepared for the session, it became evident that it would be really helpful to have a function, which basically does exactly the same as our validation pipeline. Run-AlValidation is the closest...
