Best practices deploying Sitecore to Microsoft Azure. Slides from my talk at the Sitecore User Group 19 may 2016

1. DEPLOYING SITECORE TO MICROSOFT AZURE
SITECORE USER GROUP – MAY 19 2016
THOM PUIMAN

2. COMING UP
• What is Azure?
• Why Azure?
• How does Azure work with Sitecore?
• Demo:
• Sitecore Azure module
• Deploying Sitecore using Powershell to Azure Cloud Services
• Sitecore on Azure Web Apps

3. Who am I?
Thom Puiman
• Lead Developer Sitecore @ DigitasLBi Amsterdam
• Working at DigitasLBi since 2013
• Certified Sitecore Developer since 2013
• Also interested in DevOps, Open Source and Cloud

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5. A complete and integrated global offering
San Francisco
Costa Rica
Atlanta
Norway
China
Singapore
Australia
Hong Kong
Japan
UAE
Denmark
USA
2850
UK
900
Europe
West
550
Germany
450
Nordics
250
APAC
1100
40 kantoren
verspreid 25
landen
+6000 mensen
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6. What is Azure?

7. Introduction
• Open & Flexible public cloud platform
• Pay-as-you-go
• Large worldwide network of datacenters
• Deploy any type of application

8. Public cloud providers

9. Azure regions

10. Services
Compute
CDN
Data Services
Networking
Storage
Web & Mobile

13. Virtual Machines
• Infrastructure as a Service
• Use it for any OS or tool that you want to run
• You are responsible for the OS, patching/updates and security

14. Cloud Services
• Platform as a Service
• Sitecore Azure Module
• Web role and worker roles are fully configurable VM
• Can be scaled manually or automatically on metrics (CPU, Memory etc)
• Deployments are stateless
• Microsoft currently requires at least two instances, to meet SLA requirements

15. App Services
• Platform as a Service
• Will be supported by Sitecore as of version 8.2
• No access to VM, all configuration through portal/files
• Easier and faster to setup
• SLA already valid for 1 instance

16. Why Azure?

17. Cloud vs. On-premise
• Only scale when necessary
• Optimized for high availability

18. Sitecore on Azure

20. Sitecore Azure module
• Comes with Sitecore XP as separate module
• Incredibly easy to setup fully working cloud services environment
• Can be deployed using existing Sitecore application
• Sitecore admins can have full control over Azure environment

21. DEMO
Sitecore Azure module

22. Deploy Sitecore using Powershell
• Custom made scripts
• Helped us to better integrate Azure with our CI-pipeline
• Leaner cspkg and fast deployments
• Helps developers more quickly to understand the process
• Better integrated with local development environment

23. DEMO
Custom implementation Sitecore deployment with
Powershell

24. Sitecore on Azure Web Apps
• Azure Web Apps is easier to setup and provides more integrations for
developers
• Azure Resource Manager template to quickly setup working Sitecore
environment
• Easier to integrate with your CI-pipeline
Disclaimer: Currently not yet supported by Sitecore. Will be
introduced from version 8.2 (expected July).

25. DEMO
Sitecore on Azure Web Apps

26. thompuiman@gmail.com
www.puiman.nl