waldo: Where to find the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (and NAV) Docker Images

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While I was writing my previous blogpost, I was wondering what the actual Docker repos are today. Basically:

when we want to set up a certain Docker container, where can I find it?

Well, easy. Just read this blogpost from Freddy, the Docker-God from Microsoft. But, while most info on it is still very valuable, you might also notice that some of the repos our outdated. That’s why I decided to create some kind of up-to-date (and sometimes a little bit into the future) overview on what images/repos Freddy makes available for us.

This is what I found out:
mcr.microsoft.com/businesscentral/onprem

• What?
  • OnPrem images of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
  • You can’t find any image of Dynamics NAV – so only Business Central versions are available here
  • From 13.0 (which is RTM) until …
• Why?
  • Use these for your OnPrem cases. They are preconfigured with OnPrem settings, and behave like it would OnPrem.
• List of images: https://mcr.microsoft.com/v2/busines...prem/tags/list
• Some Examples
  • I usually use Belgian images, so what I would simply do is take the latest Belgian version by using this image: “mcr.microsoft.com/businesscentral/onprem:be“
  • Or if you need to be version-specific, you have the option to provide the CU-number, or version, like these options would be the same:
    • mcr.microsoft.com/businesscentral/onprem:cu2
    • mcr.microsoft.com/businesscentral/onprem:13.2.26556.0
  • Or, if you don’t want W1, you can specify country-versions on top of that
    • mcr.microsoft.com/businesscentral/onprem:cu2-be
    • mcr.microsoft.com/businesscentral/onprem:13.2.26556.0-be
  • For more examples, please visit Freddy’s blogpost that I mentioned above.

mcr.microsoft.com/businesscentral/sandbox

• What?
  • This has quite the same list as the OnPrem version, but the images are preconfigured like Business Central would behave in the cloud.
  • No versions earlier then 13.0 (Business Central), so no “Dynamics 365 for ..(blabla).. Business Edition”)
  • You can’t find any “future” versions here, which you might need to prepare your app for the next version of NAV – see below for where you can find those.
• Why?
  • It’s great for learning, demoing, developing against SaaS-related environments. So for Apps, but also for “Per Tenant Customizations”.
• List of images: https://mcr.microsoft.com/v2/busines...dbox/tags/list
• Some Examples
  • If you want to enable the “Experience Levels” behaviour like in SaaS, you need these images
  • The same tagging-strategy applies here as well

mcr.microsoft.com/dynamics-nav

• What?
  • The Docker Repo refers to “Dynamics NAV”, so it’s clear that here you can find “the old stuff”:
    • NAV2016..2018
  • No current versions (nor future versions) of Business Central can be found in this repo!
• Why?
  • Because we all might still have customers on “older” versions
• List of images: https://mcr.microsoft.com/v2/dynamics-nav/tags/list
  • As this repo isn’t available yet, this URL is just an assumption..
• This repo is (going to be) a replacement for this repo on Docker Hub: “microsoft/dynamics-nav”. At this point, it doesn’t exist yet, but it will in the near future replace the one on DockerHub.
• Example
  • I use it a lot for localization-services I do for certain partners. It’s just setting up a Docker image of “Dynamics-NAV” from a certain version/localization to get to the txt-files. Easy!

bcinsider.azurecr.io/bcsandbox

• What?
  • “bcinsider” means it’s protected from anyone that are not given access as an “insider”.
  • This specific one, is the next (minor) release of Business Central.
  • Branched out from the master-branch (see below) to start creating a “stable” release
• Why?
  • If you have an app on appsource, this is a way to be prepared if your app will build against the next release. I strongly recommend doing so, not only for your apps on appsource, but also for your customers with “Per Tenant Customizations”.
• List of images
  • As far as I know, it is not possible to get to a list of all the images – not even with PowerShell ;-).
• To gain access to the bcinsider-repos (also the next one I will talk about), you need to become an insider. More information you can find on Microsoft Collaborate.

bcinsider.azurecr.io/bcsandbox-master

• What?
  • Also an insider release you need to get access for by Microsoft
  • This is the master-branch – which basically means the next major version of Business Central. You have access to a daily build of the current master branch
  • Also referred to as “unstable” branch.
• Why?
  • To look even further in the future – to prep you of upcoming features in the language or the application.
• List of images
  • As you might have expected – also for this repo, I have no way to provide a list of image-tags.
• Gain access the same way as mentioned above.

microsoft/bcsandbox

• You will see that it still works, but at one point, it will be deprecated, so it’s time to update your scripts to be using the one that I mentioned above:”mcr.microsoft.com/businesscentral/sandbox”

microsoft/dynamics-nav

• Also this one still works and will be deprecated and replaced by “mcr.microsoft.com/dynamics-nav”. When writing this blog, this hasn’t happened just yet, so you might still need this repo today, to find all NAV2016..NAV2018 versions.
• List of images:
  
  • It’s slightly more complex to get to all images. I once wrote a script for it, and blogged about it. So, more info here: http://www.waldo.be/2018/08/06/list-...on-docker-hub/
    

Hope it was somewhat clear – enjoy!




Источник: https://dynamicsuser.net/nav/b/waldo...-docker-images