Tag: continuous integration
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VSTS and Sitecore NuGet feeds
SPECIAL NOTE: This article is a lead up for my November 30th #SCUniversity session on Continuous Integration and Deployment. Register for the webinar now! When you are setting up your Continuous Integration build definition in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS, formerly Visual Studio Online) you will get a NuGet Restore step…
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Continuous Everything: The Art of Repetition
It is very fashionable to apply a single word to pretty much ANYTHING to try to get in on the latest trend. The current ‘Whatever-Ops’ trend (MarketingOps, ChatOps, OpsOps) is one such example. For a while, though, we’ve been having the word ‘Continuous’ thrown in front of a whole lot…
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Fourth Day of Christmas… Continuous Integration tools!
On the fourth day of Christmas, my true blog gave to me: Four CI tools, Three powershell scripts, Two Keystone merge tips, …and a placeholder rule in the content tree. We all love checking out tools, so here are four Continuous Integration applications you can put under your tree this Christmas!
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Can I have my DevOps Fluffy with a side of Culture?
Wednesday afternoon, while at the DevOps East Conference, I attended a Continuous Integration (CI) session delivered by Chris Riley (@HoardingInfo). Chris was sharing his past experiences with CI and how to best roll it out to all types of organizations. I particularly liked his suggestion of putting the QA team front and center,…
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TeamCity PowerShell scripts run with “- File” always return exit code zero
Are you finding that your TeamCity Powershell scripts are always returning exit code zero (a success) no matter what happens? Even when an exception is thrown and you can see the error message in your build log? I ran into this problem recently while moving some of my Powershell scripts…
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Getting started with Agile ALM for Sitecore
Over the last few years, I’ve been trying to iteratively improve our own processes at nonlinear to deliver better Sitecore solutions and set our clients up for maintainable and sustainable ALM processes. Some of my posts on automated Sitecore deployments with TFS or TeamCity outlined some of the initial steps we…
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Sitecore Continuous Deployment: Video presentation from SVUG
I had planned on kicking off a short series on how to tackle the challenges of Sitecore Continuous Deployment, but after I had written my post the Sitecore Virtual User Group (SVUG) held an online Q&A presentation by Jason Bert on Continuous Integration & Deployment. The presentation is a great…
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TDS: Deploy failed – “This software is protected to provide copy protection”
Have you encountered a failure while executing an automated Sitecore deployment with TDS where the type initializer throws an exception and you are asked to reinstall the TDS application? Apparently, if your TDS installation becomes corrupted somehow, you need to get rid of the web service and let TDS reinstall…
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TDS deployments slow with Sitecore 6.6? Upgrade versions!
Have your deployments to Sitecore 6.6 installations been taking a very long time? Do your build logs show 3-4 seconds for every template item that is deployed? Are you seeing the following warning in Sitecore logs? All caches have been cleared. This can decrease performance considerably. If so, you are…
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TDS: So you’re deploying Sitecore to a new environment…
If you’ve been using TDS to do automated deployments for Sitecore, you’ll eventually need to start deploying to a new environment. Maybe you’ve set up your local environment, and now you want to get that process working in a daily build environment. Maybe you want to automate deployment to a…
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Integration Testing with Unit Tests and MSTest
In many of the projects that I have worked on, the application we’re building needs to integrate with a back-end system or a web service layer that is maintained by a third party or by another team. In these cases, we shouldn’t assume we’ll have the ability to ensure that…
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Automating Sitecore Deployments with TFS and TDS
During development, your team makes a lot of changes to fields, templates, presentation details, and various other elements that need to be tracked, verified, and deployed. You need a way to source control those database changes, and then make them available to your team to test. Here’s how to accomplish…
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Automating Sitecore Deployments with TeamCity and TDS
During development, your team makes a lot of changes to fields, templates, presentation details, and various other elements that need to be tracked, verified, and deployed. You need a way to source control those database changes, and then make them available to your team to test. Here’s how to accomplish…
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