Sunday, April 12, 2020

I've recently being getting my head around HashiCorp Vault. A great product for securing your secrets, certificates, passwords and much more besides. Vault can be enabled in 'dev' mode to allow you to test out its features, but I wanted to use this on an actual project so I needed to setup a properly secured instance......

Monday, March 11, 2019

So this is the fourth and final part in my series walking you through how to setup an Ubuntu VM in Azure running Solr secured using LetsEncrypt. In the first three parts we used the Azure CLI to create the VM, we installed Java and Solr then finally we secured the solr instance using a certificate from the awesome LetsEncrypt service. In this series we're going to finish setting this service up by creating the cores that we need to run Sitecore......

Monday, March 4, 2019

So this is part 3 in my series walking you through how to setup an Ubuntu VM in Azure running Solr secured using LetsEncrypt. In the first two parts we used the Azure CLI to create the VM, we installed Java and Solr then finally opened port 8983 so we could access the Solr dashboard remotely. In this post we're going use LetsEncrypt to generate a certficate to allow us to secure our communication with Solr over HTTPS......

Sunday, March 3, 2019

So this is part 2 in my series walking you through how to setup an Ubuntu VM in Azure running Solr secured using LetsEncrypt. In the first part we used the Azure CLI to create the VM, then opened an SSH connection to server to test it had completed successfully......

Friday, March 1, 2019

So this week I've been building a Sitecore Experience Commerce deployment in Azure. This is using mostly PaaS based resources, so WebApps, Azure SQL and all that jazz. However I wanted to try to keep the spend down a bit and the easiest way to achieve that is to switch out Azure Search for Solr......