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Configuring Hard-to-reach settings in Sitecore Containers

Andy Burns, Leave a comment

I’ve had a problem with some Containers I’m configuring – how do I set machine/environment specific settings in those containers? I can’t just patch them in with Sitecore patches – the files in the image are supposed to be immutable.

I could use Environment Variables (which is what the Sitecore container images do for App Settings and Connection Strings), and the $(env:variablename) syntax gives a way of doing that – but it could mean editing a lot of places.

Well, there’s a better way, and Vitalii Tylyk describes a nice way to do this – Sitecore environment variables config builder.

That’s pretty nifty, but I wonder if it could be adjusted to set cache sizes too…

Configuring Hard-to-reach settings in Sitecore Containers

Setting your Application Insights Connection String

Andy Burns, , 2 Comments

If you’re adding Application Insights to your solution, you will need to specify a connection string. Usually, this is at the bottom of your applicationinsights.config file:

A nifty alternative is you can specify this connection as an Environment Variable – and App Insights will pick that up and use it…

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New Sitecore Publishing Targets in Containers

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We have a Sitecore system running in containers, and we wanted to add a new publishing target. This is another copy of the WEB database; ours is called “preview”, and it is so that editors can check published content before it goes live.

I followed Sitecore’s documentation about how to do this – and do take note of steps 4 and 5. They’re new, and I missed them to begin with:

  • In the App_Data\items\ folder, make a copy of the Web folder.
  • Rename the copy of the folder and the .dat file inside it. Use the database name (for example, web_preview) instead of web for the folder name and the file name (so the filename is similar to items.web_preview.dat).

It turns out that’s important – without it you’ll get an exception on startup.

However, after doing that, we still had problems with our preview database; the CM server kept throwing an exception.

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New Sitecore Publishing Targets in Containers