In this presentation, Naveed Ahmad will explain how to automate your Sitecore deployments and give an overview of the tools and technologies required to achieve it. The talk will also include a live demo using TeamCity, Hedgehog TDS and Sitecore Ship.

1. SITECORE DEVOPS –
AUTOMATING YOUR
SITECORE DEPLOYMENTS
NAVEED AHMAD
SITECORE USER GROUP
WASHINGTON DC
APRIL 2017

2. INTRODUCTION
 Stiecore Tech Lead at EPAM
 Blog – http://naveedahmad.co.uk
 Twitter - @naveed_ahmad
 Slack - @naveed (sitecorechat.slack.com)

3. AGENDA
 Overview of Sitecore deployments
 Overview of Tools and Technologies
 Live Demo
 Q & A

4. SITECORE DEPLOYMENTS

5. OVERVIEW
 Sitecore deployments are complicated!
 To do a Sitecore deployment, we need :
 Latest code changes
 Latest configuration changes
 Sitecore content items

6. GOAL
 One “click” of a button should:
 Build and compile latest code and configurations
from the source control
 Automatically package up the Sitecore content item
changes
 Deploy the latest code, configuration and Sitecore
content items to the server
 Publish the changes to the server

7. MANUAL DEPLOYMENTS
 Works in my machine !
 Manual deployments are:
Unreliable
Error prone
Time consuming
Costly
Difficult to roll back

8. AUTOMATED DEPLOYMENTS
 Automated deployments will be
Reliable
Scalable
Fast
Visible
Roll-backs

9. TOOLS AND TECHNLOGIES

10. Code Update Workflow

11. Tools Stack
 Microsoft Visual Studio (VS)
 Hedgehog Team Development (TDS)
 Glass Mapper for Sitecore
 SlowCheetah (VS plugin)
 Microsoft Web Deploy
 JetBrains TeamCity
 Sitecore Ship
 Chocolatey / Curl

12. CONFIGURATION OVERVIEW
 Local Install of the Sitecore CMS
 Configure VS Project
 Configure TDS projects
 Setup Sitecore Glass
 Setup Source control (Git)
 Configure Web Deploy on QA server
 Configure Team City on CI server
 Configure Sitecore Ship with VS and TeamCity
 Setup Slack Notifications (Optional)

13. Local Install of the Sitecore CMS

14. Configure VS Project

15. Configure TDS projects
 MyProject.TDS.Core
 MyProject.TDS.Master
 MyProject.TDS.Master.Content
 MyProject.TDS.Master.System

16. Setup Sitecore Glass

17. Setup Source Control

18. Configure QA server Web Deploy

19. Configure Team City on CI server

20. Configure Sitecore Ship with VS and TC

21. Slack Notifications

22. DEMO

23. QUESTIONS?