Jeremy Davis
Sitecore, C# and web development
Ever had a tool that works reliably suddenly not work? I had a problem like that recently, and it lead to some experimentation that I think I may need to come back to later. So this is mostly so I can remember what I was doing when I get back to this. But as we move toward a more "platform agnostic" with more use of .Net Core on Linux, maybe there's something here that might help you too...
Last time out I was thinking about some choices around setting up Sitecore in Kubernetes. Since then, I've moved onto the more practical task of trying to get the setup to work. And I doubt you'll be surprised to hear that I've met a few new issues... Maybe they'll help you save yourself a bit of time and frustration?
I'm in the middle of trying to plan out the transition of a Sitecore 10 development project from PaaS deployments, over to the Azure Kubernetes Service. There's some great info out there, but there have also been some interesting things I've wondered about that seem less documented right now. So here are some things I've learned this week:
I bumped into an interesting issue recently, which I though others might come across. Trying to run a project with Dianoga in it didn't work properly in a developer's Docker container – it kept failing whenever it was asked to process an SVG image. Why didn't that work? Here's why:
I've got a project on the cards where I need to connect both Sitecore and a third-party image capture system to Content Hub. While I've done the official admin & developer training for Content Hub, I thought it would be worth a quick proof-of-concept so that I could verify the plan I had would actually work – and it turned out that there was an interesting issue hiding under this...
It's October – which means we've only got a few weeks until this year's Sitecore Symposium. Are you signed up? I am, and here are some of my reasons why:
I've been spending a bit of time helping out a client who's working through an upgrade project recently, and the work to move from v9.1 to v9.3 raised an interesting issue I wasn't aware of. So in the spirit of making life easier for others, here's what happened:
Ages ago I wrote up a bit about how your public sites should consider implementing Content Security Policy because of all the hacks it can prevent. In a bit of frustrating irony, I was tripped up by a problem caused precisely because Sitecore have added some CSP headers to their own code. Google came up empty on this, so I'm documenting it for the next person who gets bitten.
A while back I wrote about some initial investigations I'd made towards having SolrCloud in a containerised Sitecore instance. Since I worked on that, Sitecore have shipped their "official" container approach, so I've revisited my experiments using the examples Sitecore provides.
Now that Sitecore 10 is out, I've been having a dig into the new Docker approach that's been released. There are some interesting differences here between Sitecore's official approach and the way the community scripts I'd experimented with worked – and I've learned a few interesting new things as a result of having a read of the examples provided. Here are the things that caught my attention:
