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Deploy Sitecore with Zero Downtime

Patrick PerroneBill Cacy

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What is a Blue/Green Deployment?

Two Identical environments

• Blue

• Green

One environment is live

One environment is not live

Load balancer used to direct traffic to the ‘live’ environment

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Why Do We Care?

Deployment technique that reduces downtime

Rollback to prior version if needed

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What is the Challenge?

• Sitecore is a CMS with a shared data layer

• Data isn’t owned solely by development team

• Sitecore owns the schema

• Content authors own ”content”

• End-users indirectly generate content

• Complex inter-relationship between xDB and SQL and search

indices

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The Solution

An Approach to Blue/Green Sitecore Deployments

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Server Architecture

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The Octopus Environments

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Each host is added to both the Blue and the Green environments

Secondary tentacle installed on each server

Active and Non-Active roles added to the host

“sitecore-cm” vs “non-active-sitecore-cm”

Octopus Setup

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Octopus Environment

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Sitecore CM server in Octopus

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Step 1: Synchronize Content

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Database content synced between Live and Non-Live instances

Octopus targets configured with roles for stc-sql (Live) and non-active-stc-sql (Non-Live)

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Step 2: Deploy New Version

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Step 3: Testing

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Step 4: Change Connection Strings and Analytics Index

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Step 5: Make Blue the Live Environment

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Step 6: Finish Retiring the Green Environment

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Questions?

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Thank you.

If you’d like to talk more about our

point-of-view on Blue/Green

Deployments or have us send you a

copy of our presentation, please

contact us.

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Patrick PerroneVP of Development, Arkepperonne@arke.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-perrone-38536913/

Bill CacySitecore Architect, Arkebcacy@arke.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/william-cacy-7724b149/

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