Code, Cloud & Sitecore

SolrCloud on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Running SolrCloud on Kubernetes — particularly Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) — can provide you with a highly scalable, cost-efficient, and cloud-native architecture.  This guide walks through how I deployed SolrCloud 8.11.2 with Zookeeper on AKS . Why This Matters for Sitecore Deployments If you're running Sitecore XP or XM , you know that Solr is a mandatory dependency — powering xDB indexing, content search. While Sitecore provides a developer-friendly Solr container for local use, it clearly states: ⚠️ The included Solr image is intended only for development and testing . This means Sitecore does not provide a production-ready Solr setup. If you're deploying Sitecore in production — especially in Kubernetes — you need to create your own scalable, HA SolrCloud cluster. That’s why this deployment matters: You’re building a production-grade SolrCloud setup You’re deploying 3 Solr + 3 Zookeeper nodes for high availabilit...

In this post, I am going to show how to setup postman and run the scripts. When you download Sitecore Commerce, it includes ready to use postman sample requests (inside Sitecore.Commerce.Engine.SDK.x.x.x folder). You need to import that postman folder to postman app. The steps are written in official documentation , just click import and choose postman folder. You will see some parameters in sample requests such as  {{SitecoreIdServerHost}}, {{OpsApiHost}}, {{OpsApi}} Those are environment based variables that you can change according to your environment details. When you click "setting" icon, you will see predefined environments: AdventureWorks and Habitat. For example, click "Habitat Environment" to edit its variables. You see that AuthoingHost is using port 5000, it is the default port if the that port is available. You can check which port is using your Authoring role from IIS. If your Authoring port is different than 5000, you ne...

I was recently trying to integrate commerce to an existing sxa website. One of the issues I got that commerce component related APIs were giving 404 not found. For example, I added "Promoted Products" component to homepage. It seemed fine on experience editor but when I published and tried to see on website, I saw an error message on browser's console. I checked the catalog configuration first, everything seemed fine. Then, I compared with storefront website. I noticed that RequestVerificationToken was missing on my website. I searched a bit and found Sitecore official documentation related with it. According to documentation, I saw that Antiforgery rendering was missing and it was coming from Commerce Metadata partial design. I added Commerce Metadata partial design to my website's page design and the issue got fixed. After you add metadata and publish, you shoud see RequestVerificationToken on page.

I've recently had an issue that commerce components were missing in SXA Toolbox. I setup Sitecore Commerce on top of an existing instance and I already had a SXA website working on it. The idea was to add commerce components and functionality to my existing website. But after commerce setup, the toolbox was still showing default SXA components and commerce components were missing although I add commerce tenant and website modules: I checked Available Renderings under Presentation folder, there was no problem, commerce renderings were there. I created another tenant and website to see if it shows the commerce components in toolbox. Nothing seemed different but I was seeing commerce components for new website and it was missing on existing one. Then, I noticed two things: 1- Selected catalog was empty in content editor (/sitecore/Commerce/Catalog Management/Catalogs) even if I see Habitat_Master catalog in Merchandising section on commerce management panel. 2- Bootstrap ...

Sitecore official documentation provides how to setup your instance on Azure. After you follow the instructions, you would need a few key steps to complete your setup. Use postman to bootstrap and initialize the Commerce Engine:   Call bootstrap method ( {{OpsApiHost}} / {{OpsApi}} /Bootstrap() ) for your environments. You would need to get token first ( {{SitecoreIdServerHost}} /connect/token ) Creating a new webshop: When you create a new webshop from Sitecore content editor, a new domain is created automatically on your content management server. But you will need to add manually to your CD and Identity servers. Update Domain.config file under app_config > security folder as below.   If you don’t add, you will get domain is missing error while customers sign in. You also need to register your domain to BizFX server.  Then, you will be able to see new domain while adding new customers in Sitecore Commerce panel. Configure produ...

I am going to build user interface part of custom activity. As we saw in previous post, we have a parameter called "ProcessLimit" in activity implementation. So, we should provide a UI to marketing managers that can set it from marketing automation panel. I don't want to repeat the official documentation, I will only show some key parts. I started with creating package.json file. When you follow official documentation, you see that you need those packages as required. @angular/core: 5.2.11 @angular/http: 5.2.11 @ngx-translate/core: 9.0.2 rxjs: 5.5.11 You will get warning in terminal if there is any package missing, I added step by step and my final package.json file was like this: { "name" : "package" , "version" : "1.0.0" , "description" : "Playground Demo" , "private" : true , "angular-cli" : {}, "scripts" : { "dev" : "ngc -p ....