Manually creating a sandbox based on Docker

You can also create a Dynamics 365 Business Central sandbox environment without using the sandbox links to the Business Central production tenant, but instead using custom scripts for creating Docker-based sandboxes hosted locally or on Azure Container Instances.

Steps for manually creating a locally hosted Dynamics 365 Business Central sandbox

After installing Docker for Windows on your local machine, you can manually create a Docker-based Dynamics 365 Business Central container by running a script that pulls a container image from the Docker hub.

From Command Prompt, you can execute the following command:

docker run -m 4G -e ACCEPT_EULA=Y -e UseSSL=N microsoft/bcsandbox:latest

 This will create a Dynamics 365 Business Central container with the latest image available.

If you want to create a sandbox with a particular localization (for example, IT), you can run the following command:

docker run -m 4G -e ACCEPT_EULA=Y -e UseSSL=N microsoft/bcsandbox:it...