Posts Tagged ‘Azure DevOps’

A big reason behind this post is because this topic, even though very relevant, has very little to no context available online so far. There are posts about this being possible and very generic build pipelines for .net core deployments to azure, but none describing how to build Bitbucket CI/CD pipelines for Optimizely CMS 12 […]

Imagine as a Quality Analyst, you begin your day of testing. You log into Sitecore Content Editor, create a page, name it, and open it in Experience Editor but receive a white screen “Our Services are unavailable.” You investigate and see a deployment happening to your environment, which is DEV. All this has taken 10 […]

I like to look at projects as if they are puzzles. All the pieces are established, but as a project manager, you must figure out the most appropriate and logical sequence to complete the bigger picture. An Iteration Plan is a helpful tool that can help to organize and visualize the sequence of work. In […]

Welcome back for the final post in my series on DevOps Best Practices related to Sitecore Headless implementations. In Part 3 we are going to look at the continuous deployment of our Sitecore and Next.js applications following a zero downtime model. If you haven’t checked out Part 1 and/or Part 2, I would recommend pausing […]

Welcome back to my series on DevOps Best Practices related to Sitecore Headless implementations. In Part 2 we are going to create the build pipelines for our Sitecore and Next.js solutions and see how they can be included in the PR process. If you haven’t checked-out Part 1 yet, I recommend doing so before continuing […]

This blog will describe how to construct a test plan in Azure DevOps, and how users may create test suites and test cases within that plan. The distinctions between a test plan, a test suite, and a test case are the following: Test Plan: The test suites are listed in the test plan. Test Suite: […]

Azure Test Plans, a service launched with Azure DevOps, provides a browser-based test management solution for exploratory, planned manual, and user acceptance testing. Azure Test Plans also provides a browser extension for exploratory testing and gathering feedback from stakeholders An Azure DevOps test plan is divided into three sections: Test Plan – The container to group […]

Yesterday (December 8th 2021), Optimizely sneakily released their very first major update for the EpiCloud Powershell Module; Version 1.0.0. This is great timing, as I was also about to release an update that would provide a fix for Azure.Storage (no longer relevant – ill explain why further in this post), as well as provide updates […]

Application modernization and innovation has remained a top priority of enterprises for the past several years. The economic disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic (and subsequent aftershocks) has only escalated this priority. In a related post, we recognize the challenges of modernizing and migrating legacy applications, which include “legacy knowledge, custom-built processes, databases, and solutions […]

The Optimizely Deployment API (Episerver.PaaS.EpiCloud) has helped immensely as I’ve been working on new projects, but there has always been something that has plagued me; copying down content/assets into my local environment. When I say “Copying down Content,” I mean two pieces; Database and the Assets. For the Database Export, I have created my ExportDatabase […]

When there are several developers on the same project, you need to merge your code to a single branch. Before you do that, it’s important to ensure that the new feature you just created is built correctly. To check, you need to propose your code as a pull request. I’ll explain why doing pull requests […]

As I continue to use the Deployment API, I always am looking for new and exciting ways to use the commands. In this case, being able to provision a brand new set of DXP Environments for a client. The Optimizely DXP is made up of three environments; Integration, Preproduction, and Production. Not all of these […]