Testing in production
No more swapping!
When running Sitecore on Azure PaaS, you are most probably familiar with deployments slot and swapping. By using a deployment slot, you can deploy you code to the slot, whilst your production environment keeps your website live. By hitting the “swap slots” button, the production and deployment slot are swapped, and the visitors arrive on […]
Part 5: Deployment Slots
Sitecore 9 in Azure Paas for Dummies
Preface In this final post of the Sitecore 9 in Azure Paas series we are going to customize the ARM templates to support deployment slots. Creating deployment slots in Azure In this tutorial, we will add the deployment slots manually to our Azure setup. So we will not modify the templates to include in the […]
Part 4: Adding modules to your ARM templates
Sitecore 9 in Azure Paas for Dummies
Preface In this fourth post of the Sitecore 9 in Azure Paas series we are going to add custom modules from the marketplace to our Azure PAAS solution and add them to our ARM templates so that they are automaticly deployed. In this post, we will show you how to add the Sitecore Powershell Extentions to our […]
Part 3: Deploy your custom code
Sitecore 9 in Azure Paas for Dummies
Preface In the first part of this series, we provisioned a brand new out-of-the-box Sitecore 9 on Azure PAAS with the help of ARM templates. In the second part we created a blue-green deployment environment in order to have a clean deploy with each build but keeping the databases intact. In this third installment of […]
Part 2: Redeploying sitecore without provision infrastructure
Sitecore 9 in Azure Paas for Dummies
In the first part of this series, we provisioned a brand new out-of-the-box Sitecore 9 on Azure PAAS with the help of ARM templates. Our next step is to make sure, we can redeploy the applications with the help of those templates. Why? We want a clean deployment everytime we add code. We want to […]