Introduction to containers and tools

What is containers

Benefits over VMs

• Smaller size (MBs)
• Faster startup
• Easy/fast to create
• Distribution as images 
• Easy to extend existing images
• Bigger eco-system

Tools you need

• An operating system that can run docker 
• A docker tool stack (engine, cli 
  • Windows: WSL + Docker Desktop / Podman
  • Mac: Docker Desktop / Rancher
    • (note ARM architecture != x86) 
  • Linux: bet you know docker already
• For Docker Deskop, you need a license ask DG.IT if you are a serious user of it

Demos

• BC in a Windows Container
• Creating your own container
• Distributing a container
• Running a container with volume mounts
• Testing with containers

BC Container on Windows

$artifactUrl = Get-BcArtifactUrl -type sandbox -country us -select Latest

New-BCContainer -accept_eula -containerName mysandbox -artifactUrl $artifactUrl -auth UserPassword -credential (Get-Credential)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/developer/devenv-running-container-development

Building your own

Running containers with volume mount

docker run --rm -v c:/temp:/work backplane/youtube-dl RUqGlWr5LBA

Testing with Containers

https://testcontainers.com/