Jenkins Pipelines for Sitecore 10 on AKS – Part 2: The Deploy Pipeline

This post is the second blog post of a mini series where I describe the steps needed to implement a set of Jenkins pipelines to build and deploy the code of a containerized Sitecore 10 custom solution to an existing Azure Kubernetes Services cluster resource. In the first blog post I explored in details how to setup the Jenkins build pipeline. In this blog post I am going to illustrate the second and last part of this automated deployment process: the deploy pipeline.

Jenkins Pipelines for Sitecore 10 on AKS – Part 1: The Build Pipeline

In my last blog post I shared my experience with the installation process of a clean Sitecore 10 solution on Azure Kubernetes Services. The next natural step is to explore how to automatically deploy a custom containerized solution to my AKS cluster, using Jenkins CI/CD tool. This blog post is the first of two posts, where I will describe the steps needed to implement Jenkins pipelines to build and deploy a containerized solution to Azure Kubernetes Services. Let’s start in this post with the build pipeline.

Sitecore Docker: How to Restore Databases Using Backups in a SQL Container

I have been experimenting with running Sitecore on Docker containers for a couple of months now and I am having a lot of fun with it. If you work with many clients at the same time like I do, running Sitecore on Docker brings the big benefit to setup and spin up a client environment in few minutes, simplifying the local environment setup process and eliminating the conflicts that might rise hosting multiple versions of Sitecore instances on a single host machine. If you haven’t tried it yet, I highly recommend to do it.

In this blog post I will describe how to override the default command executed in a Docker container running a sitecore-<topology>-sql image to restore Sitecore databases using SQL database backups generated from a non-Docker SQL server.

How to recover a corrupted Sitecore Web database without having access to the SQL Server

Last Friday night one of my clients’ websites went down. Yes, on a Friday night. Why do websites go down usually outside normal business hours? I don’t know why. A Murphy’s Law would definitely explain it saying that “whatever can go down, will go down on a Friday night“.

In case you have to deal with the same issue in the future, I want to share with you my experience and the steps that I followed to recover a corrupted Sitecore web database in the particular circumstances of not having direct access to the SQL server where the corrupted database was managed.

Disaster Recovery: Overview of Hot Solutions for Sitecore 9.1 Content Delivery Environments

Have you ever experienced a blue screen of death on your computer? Probably yes, nobody is immune. IT systems that host a Sitecore website are not different and they are vulnerable to failures too. The impact of downtime can be devastating for a business, causing loss of revenue and loss of traffic, and damaging a company’s brand image as well.

My Jenkins Setup with Unicorn

In my first blog post I am going to describe my approach to setup a Jenkins job to remotely synchronize Sitecore items with Unicorn. Continue reading “My Jenkins Setup with Unicorn” →

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