From code to a finished Business Central component, automatically.
How we built a build pipeline at von Eicken that builds, tests and publishes Business Central components all the way to the staging environment.
Builds and releases were manual work.
The von Eicken Business Central app had to be generated by hand and published to the middle tiers. That cost time and was hard to repeat reliably, because the path to the staging environment was manual every time.
- ✕Building and publishing BC components by hand
- ✕the path to staging error-prone and slow
- ✕no repeatable, documented release process
A pipeline instead of manual work.
Azure DevOps and PowerShell run the steps from build through publish to staging automatically.
Build
Azure DevOps builds the Business Central components automatically from the code.
Publish and staging
Successful builds are published automatically and moved into the staging environment.
PowerShell as control
Scripts connect the steps, traceable and adjustable.
The resultA repeatable path from code to a working component in staging.
Less manual work, fewer errors. von Eicken has since taken over the process themselves, ported the scripts and now uses the steps in GitHub. The solution belongs to the customer.
„NordFlux set up a clean build pipeline for Business Central that we understood and carried on ourselves. Today it runs in GitHub at our company. Exactly how we wanted it.“
IT, Joh. Wilh. von Eicken GmbH
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