If you have already created a container, then no. The container will be running from the image which you already created. And if you want a newer version, then yes, from time to time you need to download the latest version depending on the Microsoft release.

Yes, it does. You might need to look for a bit more complicated image names because Microsoft provides two sets of images, but to my knowledge, the latest versions of Business Central are created as Docker images, and you can download them.

Yes, of course, you can, but as you saw during this demonstration, the creation of Docker containers is very fast, so if you are developing for a few different companies at the same time, you can create as many containers as you want, meaning as many development environments as you want. When you are installing Business Central locally on your machine, I believe that you run into issues such as conflicting ports and creating services. In my opinion, this is the reason why you should use Docker. Also, connecting to Docker containers are often faster than to local install.

We still have both Administration panel and Administration shell.

Well, not by default, but yes, you can use you local SQL servers. For that, you can use commands from NavContainerHelper.

Yes, there are some differences in Windows Build, and in some rare cases, you need to match Windows Build with Docker versions.

No you don’t have to install any certificates.

When I was showing the template for creating a container, you could see this parameter ‘doNotExportObjectsToText’. If you delete it, it will automatically export all database as text. Path to files will be C:\ProgramData\NavContainerHelper

Yes, you can. First of all, you need to stop the Docker service. Go to C:\ProgramData\Docker\config\daemon.json and add function (“data-root”: “D:\\docker”). Then start docker service again.

Docker container inspect

Yes, you can.