Containers & AKS: Taking Sitecore 10 to the next level

Installing prerequisite software

• Install Powershell
• Install the Azure CLI / Current release of the Azure CLI

The current script will install Kubernetes version 1.17.11. If you want to change to another version, please update the scripts.

# list Azure locations
az account list-locations -o table

# get  Azure locations
az aks get-versions -l west-europe -o table 

KubernetesVersion    Upgrades
-------------------  ------------------------
1.19.0(preview)      None available
1.18.8               1.19.0(preview)
1.18.6               1.18.8, 1.19.0(preview)
1.17.11              1.18.6, 1.18.8
1.17.9               1.17.11, 1.18.6, 1.18.8
1.16.15              1.17.9, 1.17.11
1.16.13              1.16.15, 1.17.9, 1.17.11

Scripts

All the scripts has default values in place.

Create the Azure resource group, and create Azure Container Registry

.\1.CreateDepends.ps1 -Region ... -ResourceGroup ... -MyRegistry ... -SkuAcr ... 

Create the AKS Kubernetes cluster:

• two Linux nodes (Kubernetes core)
• one Windows node
• assign ACR to cluster
• grep authenticate

.\2.CreateAKS.ps1 -Region -ResourceGroup -AksName -AcrName -AzureWindowsPassword   

Install the tools:

• kubectl (Kubernetes CLI)
• Helm (Package manager CLI)

.\3.InstallTools.ps1 -Region -ResourceGroup -AksName -AcrName 

Set-up cluster

• deploy helm chart ingress-nginx/ingress-nginx

.\4.CreateNginx.ps1

Create solution

• Create Kubernetes namespace
• Please check 1.2.2 Kubernetes secrets in the Installation Guide for Production Environment with Kubernetes
• Set your own secrets based on the guide.

.\5.CreateNamespaceAndSecrets.ps1

Deploy the external services

• Microsoft SQL
• Solr
• Redis

.\6.Externals.ps1  

Intiozalie the external services

• Microsoft SQL
• Solr

.\7.Init.ps1

Deploy the solution

.\8.SolutionAndNginx.ps1