A presentation at SUGCON ANZ 2022 in in Melbourne VIC, Australia by Rob Earlam
Modern DevOps What does automation look like in a composable world Rob Earlam August 18-19 2022 #sugcon © 2022 Sitecore User Group Conference ANZ and its respective speakers. All rights reserved.
Rob Earlam Snr. Developer
A real world example
What is the project? • Real world example • Migration & Green-field • Work in progress - all subject to change! • Available publicly now – Not accepting contributions yet! © 2022 Sitecore User Group Conference ANZ and its respective speakers. All rights reserved.
Existing Setup Sitecore v9 – Azure WebApps • SUGCON Events • SUGCON India • SUGCON ANZ • MVP Review Portal Sitecore v10 – AKS • MVP Site – including application • SUGCON EU © 2022 Sitecore User Group Conference ANZ and its respective speakers. All rights reserved.
Target Setup • One set of infrastructure powered by XM Cloud • All SUGCON Sites • All MVP Functionality • Migration complete to our target “long-term architecture” © 2022 Sitecore User Group Conference ANZ and its respective speakers. All rights reserved.
Project requirements Content Migration Development Flow Ability to choose Ability to migrate content Smooth development Smooth deployment flow headless served from a development technology from existing sites and flow for all sites for all sites regardless of single XM Cloud instance. per site. between environments regardless of technology cloud hosting used Multi-Site Multi-Technology All sites need to be chosen. © 2022 Sitecore User Group Conference ANZ and its respective speakers. All rights reserved. Deployment Flow
Development Flow
Full Local Development • Running everything containers locally • Very similar to XM v10 development – but leaner! • Appealing for traditional Sitecore (.NET) developers in the team. SUGCON ANZ SUGCON EU MVP Site Content Management Databases • Less appealing for JS developers not familiar with Sitecore development history. • Requires Windows machine © 2022 Sitecore User Group Conference ANZ and its respective speakers. All rights reserved. Indexes
Edge Development with Docker • Run all heads locally against Experience Edge • Appealing for both .NET & JS developers in the team. SUGCON ANZ SUGCON EU MVP Site • Shared environment has the possibility to introduce issues in larger teams. • Test prod issues really easily. • Good if you want to smoke test all heads at once. • Requires Windows machine • No Experience Editor XM Cloud © 2022 Sitecore User Group Conference ANZ and its respective speakers. All rights reserved.
Edge Development without Docker • Run individual heads locally against Experience Edge • Appealing for both .NET & JS developers in the team SUGCON ANZ SUGCON EU • Shared environment has the possibility to introduce issues in larger teams • Test prod issues really easily • Super fast developer cycles • Use OS of choice • No Experience Editor © 2022 Sitecore User Group Conference ANZ and its respective speakers. All rights reserved. XM Cloud MVP Site
Deployment Flow
Target Architecture Replicated For Production and Non-Production? SSR MVP Site SSG XM Cloud SUGCON EU SSG SUGCON ANZ © 2022 Sitecore User Group Conference ANZ and its respective speakers. All rights reserved.
CI/CD configuration • Built using GitHub Actions • Started with single pipeline – too inefficient! • Split pipeline out by target system • Deploy_XM_Cloud.yml • Deploy_MVP.yml • Deploy_SUGCON_EU.yml • Deploy SUGCON_ANZ.yml © 2022 Sitecore User Group Conference ANZ and its respective speakers. All rights reserved.
Conclusion ▪ XM Cloud opens up a variety of development approaches • Use the best development language for your use case! ▪ Super simplified architecture compared to v10 ▪ XM Cloud opens a variety of deployment approaches • Use the best hosting platform & CI/CD tooling for your use case! ▪ Checkout the repo and follow our progress • https://github.com/Sitecore/XM-Cloud-Introduction © 2022 Sitecore User Group Conference ANZ and its respective speakers. All rights reserved.
Questions? I am a proud community member! Please contact me on the following handles: @RobEarlam @RobEarlam Rob Earlam sitecorechat.slack.com twitter sitecore.stackexchange.com © 2022 Sitecore User Group Conference ANZ and its respective speakers. All rights reserved.
Thank you!
With Sitecore’s move to the Composable DXP, a lot of the previous DevOps works we completed is no longer applicable. With the release of XM Cloud most of the server instances we previously had to provision and scale when running XM, are now managed for us. However, there is still DevOps work to be completed – the XM Cloud instance can be customised, you’re still responsible for hosting the different heads used to deliver your unique experiences, and you still need to define the flow your development teams will be following.
The leads to questions like, how can you automate the deployment of your customisations into XM Cloud? How can you automate the deployment of the heads you’ve built to run against XM Cloud? What happens if you have different heads built in different technologies, all hosted on completely separate platforms? How can you automate the serialisation of content into XM Cloud? Do your developers need to run the full solution locally, or can they just develop the head they’re working on directly against XM Cloud?
In this session will focus on questions like these to show what DevOps looks like in a composable world. I’ll demonstrate some patterns you can use to optimise your deployments synchronised across all the different platforms you’ll be interacting with.
The session will provide demonstrations showing: • Automated Deployments • Multi-site instances • Multi-technology heads • Automated Content serialisation • Multi-environment deployments • Multiple example developer flows
The session will focus on the following technologies stacks: • Sitecore XM Cloud • GitHub Actions • Vercel for the JS heads • Azure for the .NET heads
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