What is Microsoft Azure?

You know you have heard about it, Microsoft Azure, but what is it again? With all the new technology constantly being developed and advertised, it is easy to become lost in the acronyms, buzzwords, and concepts. Information describing Microsoft Azure can be overwhelming and intimidating. Bron…

Use Azure Container Instances for NAV

Running NAV inside a Container has many benefits but one of the probably most obvious ones when you start to work with it is the ease of deployment: Running a NAV container with SQL and WebClient embedded is as easy as docker run -e ACCEPT_EULA=Y navdocker.azurecr.io/dynamics-nav1.…

Invoking Azure Functions from AL

One elegant way of replacing your .NET interoperability code with something else is by using Azure Functions. Sounds good in theory, but what does it take in practice? And what are Azure Functions, anyway? Let me not take too much latitude, and let me just say…