Linux Containers for Cloud

Kinetic ERP
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My pilot is linux, live is windows.

Oddly enough, reflection still works with the same warning as before - thought that was going to expire the same time as linux went live

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I know of some large third party vendors who sell Epicor integrations who use reflection in their production deployed code extensively. I donā€™t think this can happen that quicklyā€¦

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If you are talking about ebiz, they arenā€™t an epicor partner, epicor wonā€™t care about breaking their integration.

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This aged about as well as expected.

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The irony that he may be on a boat, in a harborā€¦

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I think FTP isnā€™t supported anymore by Epicor for BarTender integration, so maybe this is a dead end. I think you would need to use Azure File Share, and then you can instantiate a FilePath object with the root at AzureFileShareā€¦

var hFile = new FilePath(ServerFolder.FileShare, "/folder/bartender/PilotDB/");
var sb = (ISandbox)Sandbox;
if (sb.IO.File.Exists(hFile)) {
...
}

KB0041611 is the master epiccare KB on BarTender, KB0107461 contains this info:

Bartender has several integration methods available within their Bartender product:

  • The only supported and certified integration method for use within our Public Cloud offering is to use a mapped drive to access data from the Azure File Share.
  • Customers are free to implement an integration method other than via mapped drive; however, the consequence would be that any concerns/issues that arise would be outside of Epicor Supportā€™s scope.
  • The FTP method is no longer used for Public Cloud, Epicor only maintains it for existing installations and Multi-Tenant Cloud systems.
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Sounds like theyā€™ll need to move us over to a Azure File Share unless they grandfather us into the FTP club. :man_shrugging:

I opened a ticket with support so weā€™ll see.

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Non-Production was moved to Linux Containers during the outage this morning, I believe Timā€™s comments were in regard to the Production environments. At least I am choosing to give him the benefit of the doubt on that.

I will say the email on Linux Containers I got on 12/17/25 did say the Production Timing is April.

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Not on cloud, but do I have it right that Epicor is having an infrastructure change of switching to Linux hosting (containers or otherwise), and is moving peopleā€™s environmentā€™s (pilot or not), with no warning that this is happening, and then just saying that there are ā€œwork-aroundsā€ for when things get messed up? They didnā€™t do this as an opt-in thing, with some kind of early adopter program?

And the onus is on the customers to make changes if they break things because of their infra changes (Iā€™m assuming to reduce costs)?

And they want this type of experience to be the only available path in a few years?

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I believe that during the 2025.2 Controlled Release, there were a vanishingly small number of companies that received a linux based container.

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I wasnā€™t talking about the timing. Just trying to use this thread to document issues and help get solutions. Not just to our issues but anything others run into.

I will say the maintenance announcement did NOT specify they were moving us to Linux though.

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I feel this community is one of the most informed ones out there. 90% of other companies that use Epicor probably are not as up-to-date. If this community is being taken by surprise, I canā€™t imagine what the experience is like for the other ones.

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Ok, so I just went through the other Linux Container thread, from early last year. I missed it altogether, Iā€™m not here very regularly, though a bit more since the cloud announcement. So it looks like it wasnā€™t completely out of the blue, but even with @timshuwy saying there would be later announcements when actually implemented, looks like a lot of people got caught off guard.

This actually just makes me further annoyed that they donā€™t move to a delivery method where you can just get images and deploy on your own container servers on prem. It would make upgrades a lot easier to manage, just get the new image, run conversions and ready to go.

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Oh, thereā€™s good reasons.

ā€¦something somethingā€¦ move everyone to cloud ā€¦ something somethingā€¦ 10% YOY cloud subscription increaseā€¦ something somethingā€¦ prismā€¦

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Seriously? SSRS Design was finally working full-kinetic for like a couple weeks and they broke it? :dumpster_fire:

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You canā€™t be that surprised Epicor would do something like that.

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shouldnā€™t be youā€™re right but I am. Still had hope that while slow, the progress is generally forward. High hopes I know.

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Did you guys go-live yet? I canā€™t remember when you said you guys were.

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This past Monday. Too early but weā€™re a small agile bunch and weā€™re making do. With rip the band-aid technique.

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