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Migrating the XM Cloud Introduction Repository to the new Starter Kit structure

Thursday, September 26, 2024

I recently wrote a blog post talking a new repository structure we are migration to for the XM Cloud Starter kits. As I mentioned in that post, my next task was to migrate our XM Cloud Introduction repository over to that new structure, and this post is going to over the tasks I needed to perform.......

Restructuring the Sitecore XM Cloud Foundation Head

Friday, September 20, 2024

Anyone who watches the Sitecore XM Cloud Foundation head repositories would have seen this PR get approved on the dev repo recently. This has implemented a significant restructuring, aimed at providing a more logical and streamlined approach to building sites with XM Cloud. This update brings several key changes and benefits for developers. ......

XM Cloud DevOps - Using the promote command with the Sitecore CLI

Monday, July 29, 2024

I recently made a small change to the CI/CD process for the XM Cloud Introduction repository that we maintain. Since we first built the project it has been using GitHub Actions for its CI/CD processes, and leveraging the Sitecore CLI for the XM Cloud deployment elements......

Migrating the XM Cloud Introduction Repo to a new Nuget feed.

Thursday, July 27, 2023

Today I had to go through the process of migrating the XM Cloud Introduction repository to a new Nuget feed. This was required as the old feed was no longer available, and we needed to move to a new one on short notice. This post will cover the steps I needed to complete to migrate the solution to the new feed......

Upgrading the XM Cloud Introduction repository to Docker Compose v2

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

In case you haven’t heard, Docker has slowly been pushing people to migrate the latest version of Docker Compose, which is `v2`. This has culminated in the end of life for `v1`, which means that the functionality will be removed from all Docker Desktop versions as of Jun 2023.......

Accessing Container Environment Variables using Sitecore PowerShell Extensions

Wednesday, October 12, 2022

I recently had an issue where I needed to debug a Sitecore instance running in a Docker container. I needed to access the environment variables of the container, but didn't have access to the cluster to see the values.......

Setting up an external XM Cloud Rendering Host to work with Experience Editor and Pages

Monday, September 26, 2022

We've recently been working on a migration project, moving, and rebuilding a series of sites to run against Sitecore XM Cloud. One of the key requirements was to ensure that all the sites could be edited in both Sitecore Experience Editor, and the next-generation editing interface included with XM Cloud - Sitecore Pages. This blog post will cover the steps we took to get this working.......

Working with the Commerce Engine & Docker in Sitecore Experience Commerce 10.1

Thursday, May 13, 2021

Recently got to work with a developer who was new to working with Sitecore Experience Commerce on Docker. Now we have a lot of examples for how to work with Sitecore Experience Platform with Docker, things like......

How to set the Experience Edge Auth Token with Apollo GraphQL

Wednesday, March 3, 2021

So if you've been looking through the SDK provided with both Sitecore Experience Commerce 8.2.1 and new release Sitecore Experience Commerce 9......

.NET Core Rendering Host - Experience Editor 404 error

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

So we've been rebuilding the Sitecore MVP site currently, and you can see how were going as the repository is Open Source, meaning you can see how we're progressing right here.........