Configuring Hard-to-reach settings in Sitecore Containers

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…

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Configuring Hard-to-reach settings in Sitecore Containers

Setting your Application Insights Connection String

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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Setting your Application Insights Connection String