Mastering Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Your first container

The first step in running Dynamics 365 Business Central sandboxes is installing Docker. This is quite easy and documented at https://docs.docker.com/install/windows/docker-ee/. Once you have done that, it's time to run your first container. Microsoft has provided a very helpful PowerShell module called navcontainerhelper, which eases the process of creating containers. However, to give you some basic understanding of the underlying mechanisms and how Dynamics 365 Business Central images work, it makes sense to look at a couple of easy examples with just Docker.

The most basic way to run a Dynamics 365 Business Central sandbox is by using the following command:

docker run -e accept_eula=y mcr.microsoft.com/businesscentral/sandbox ...