Rob Habraken | Sitecore

Personal blog about web development & Sitecore

Tag: Sitecore

  • Sitecore Technology MVP 2021!

    Sitecore Technology MVP 2021!

    This year I am celebrating my sixth year anniversary as a Sitecore MVP! I am thrilled to announce that I have been named Most Valuable Professional (MVP) by Sitecore for 2021! As a Technology MVP I am one of only 170 Sitecore professionals worldwide that have been awarded with an MVP title in this category.…

  • PaaS to AKS: more scripts!

    PaaS to AKS: more scripts!

    A valuable update to our boilerplate This blog post is part of a series about building a production ready Continuous Integration setup for Sitecore using K8s containers on AKS. For more information and other articles on this subject check out the series index. As you might have read in my previous blog post, we are aiming…

  • PaaS to AKS: an overview

    PaaS to AKS: an overview

    This blog post is part of a series about building a production ready Continuous Integration setup for Sitecore using K8s containers on AKS. For more information and other articles on this subject check out the series index. Setting up a new environment from A to Z Going over a complete provisioning, installation and deployment of…

  • PaaS to AKS: ARM for EDS

    PaaS to AKS: ARM for EDS

    This blog post is part of a series about building a production ready Continuous Integration setup for Sitecore using K8s containers on AKS. For more information and other articles on this subject check out the series index. External Data Services A K8s deployment to AKS requires a number of so called external data services (EDS)…

  • PaaS to AKS: scripts  & secrets

    PaaS to AKS: scripts & secrets

    This blog post is part of a series about building a production ready Continuous Integration setup for Sitecore using K8s containers on AKS. For more information and other articles on this subject check out the series index. Secrets management In general it is a bad idea to store credentials or secrets in your code repository.…

  • From Sitecore PaaS to AKS – a series

    From Sitecore PaaS to AKS – a series

    From PaaS to AKS. Or actually, from running Sitecore on a full PaaS architecture using Web Apps, based on the Sitecore Azure Quickstart Templates (or my own ARM set derived from that), to a containerized Sitecore deployment using the Kubernetes specification files supplied by Sitecore, running on AKS (Azure Kubernetes Services). That’s the journey I…

  • Automatic Forms data disposal

    Automatic Forms data disposal

    This is part two of my blog series on Data Privacy, accompanying my Sitecore modules developed for automatic disposal of personal data in Sitecore.Read part one if you’re new to this topic. An overview of Sitecore databases This is an overview of all non-content databases of a typical Sitecore installation. Mind that Cortex and the…

  • Sliding expiration & automatic disposal

    Sliding expiration & automatic disposal

    TL;DR? Here’s a quick summary Sitecore doesn’t remove xDB data automatically. You will need to execute the Right to be Forgotten either manually from the dashboard or from custom code. Setting your cookie lifetime to match your privacy policy only removes the link between the visitor’s browser and his data in xDB. If you do…

  • Where did our Search go?

    Where did our Search go?

    Azure Search will break your Sitecore 8.2 website A few days ago, one of our Azure production environments running Sitecore suddenly stopped working. At first it seemed to be just a ‘regular’ hick up and Azure reported auto-recovery: “At {datetime}, the Azure monitoring system received the following information regarding your Website: We’re sorry, your Web…

  • Sitecore Technology MVP 2020!

    Sitecore Technology MVP 2020!

    This year I am celebrating my fifth year anniversary as a Sitecore MVP! I am thrilled to announce that I have been named Most Valuable Professional (MVP) by Sitecore for 2020! As a Technology MVP I am one of only 154 Sitecore professionals worldwide that have been awarded with an MVP title in this category.…