Updating from NavContainerHelper to the new BcContainerHelper

 By Steve Endow

UPDATE: If you're interested in a convenient way to run the BcContainerHelper PowerShell commands, check out Krzysztof's Azure Data Studio Notebook with sample BcContainerHelper commands.  Jupyter Notebooks are a great way to include documentation and commands in a single convenient format.

On August 11, 2020, Freddy Kristiansen announced that he had released BcContainerHelper.

You can read his blog post here:

          https://freddysblog.com/2020/08/11/bccontainerhelper/

You will definitely want to read the entire blog post carefully, and perhaps read it a few times, as he shares quite a few important details about the new BcContainerHelper.

Same Great Container Helper, But Updated and Upgraded!

I made a video showing how I updated from NavContainerHelper to BcContainerHelper.  The process went flawlessly.

Here are the PowerShell Docker commands that I used to perform my update.

 Update to BcContainerHelper  
   
 List all containers  
   
      docker ps -a --format "table {{.Names}}\t{{.ID}}\t{{.CreatedAt}}\t{{.Status}}"  
   
   
 Stop all containers  
   
      docker stop $(docker ps -aq)  
   
   
 Remove all containers (optional)  
   
      Remove-BCContainer <containername>  
   
   
 Remove unused images (optional)  
   
      Try to preserve generic OS image  
   
      #Review list of images other than generic image  
      docker images | Select-String -pattern "generic" -notMatch  
   
   #Remove all images except generic image  
      docker images --format "{{.Repository}}\t{{.Tag}}\t{{.ID}}" |   
      Select-String "generic" -notMatch |  
      ConvertFrom-CSV -Delimiter "`t" -Header ("Repository","Tag","ID") |  
      Sort-Object Tag | % ID | % { docker rmi $_ }  
   
        
 Uninstall NavContainerHelper  
   
      Uninstall-Module NavContainerHelper -allversions  
        
        
 Install BcContainerHelper  
   
      #Update PowerShellGet  
      Install-Module -Name PowerShellGet -Repository PSGallery  
   
      Install-Module BcContainerHelper  
        
      #Optionally install Pre-release version  
      Install-Module BcContainerHelper -allowPrerelease  
        
        
        
 Config File (optional)  
        
      C:\ProgramData\BcContainerHelper  
        
      BcContainerHelper.config.json  
        
      {  
           "hostHelperFolder": "d:\\containerhelper",  
           "containerHelperFolder": "c:\\programdata\\bccontainerhelper"  
      }      
   

Steve Endow is a Microsoft MVP in Los Angeles.  He works with Dynamics 365 Business Central, Microsoft Power Automate, Power Apps, Azure, .NET, Dynamics GP, and SQL Server.

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