Automating Content Syncs using Content Migrator
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My presentation from the Manchester Sitecore Technical User Group on the 6th of December discussing how to Automate Content syncs using Content Migrator and demoing some customisations we've implemented to add additional functionality.
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Automating Content Syncs using Content Migrator
- 1. Using Content Migrator for Automated Content Syncs
- 2. What is it? • Community Created Tool to Sync Content to Different Environments • Installed as a Sitecore Module • Part of Sidekick (an Angular.js container for Sitecore) • Configurable Options • Supports Multiple Environments 2
- 3. Jeff Darchuk Kam Figgy Who built it? 3
- 4. LETS GO, IN AND OUT, 20 MINUTE ADVENTURE..?
- 5. Why use it? • Frees up your time to do other things • Faster than Manual Sync • It’s Quick (102 x faster than a Sitecore Package Install!) • Consistent Repeatable Syncs 5
- 6. What can it do? Sync Pages Sync Components & Images Progress Updates & Previews Automated Syncs 6
- 7. Installing Content Migrato 1. Install Sitecore Module or NuGet Package 2. Configure Secret, Roots, Server List 3. Deploy to Staging & Production 4. Start Syncing Content https://www.nuget.org/packages/SitecoreSidekickCore 7
- 8. How to use it • Choose where to pull content from • Select Options • Preview • Execute Operation 8
- 9. Automated Syncs 1. Set the remote url to pull content from (usually Prod) 2. Set one or more root Ids to sync 3. Set the options 9
- 10. Tips & Tricks • Make sure you remember to deploy to other environments before trying to use it • Make sure you set your Secret to the same on all environments and to at least 32 characters. • Existing Item Ids are maintained • Syncs Have to run on hourly schedule • History is not maintained over App pool recycles 1 0
- 11. Improvements We wanted to: • Sync on a specific day of the week from Production to Dev & Staging • Know if it ran successfully • Be able to configure the sync through a UI (no deployment needed) • Auto-publish changes 1 1
- 12. How did we do this? • We used Sitecron to create a custom task which called the Content Migrator Auto-sync on a schedule • We created a UI in Sitecore using Custom Templates to allow Content Editors to configure the sync config from a user interface instead of using a config. 1 2
- 13. Sitecron • Runs Cron based Scheduled Jobs in Sitecore • Based on Quartz.NET • More info here: https://marketplace.sitecore.net/Modules/S/Sitecron https://www.akshaysura.com/2015/06/23/sitecron- sitecore-module-for-your-everyday-scheduling-needs/ 1 3
- 14. A UI for the Sync • Support Selection of Items to Sync from Mutilists • Integrates with Sitecron • Additional Logging • Auto Publish Pages • Optionally Sends a Slack Notification too 1 4
- 15. New In Content Migrator 1.4.2• Support for Sitecore PowerShell based Automated Syncs • Works on Sitecore 9 • Bug fixes 1 5
- 16. Summary Install https://www.nuget.org/packages/SitecoreSidekickContentMigrator Or https://marketplace.sitecore.net/en/Modules/S/Sitecore_Sidekick.aspx Github https://github.com/JeffDarchuk/SitecoreSidekick More Info https://jeffdarchuk.com/2016/10/24/sitecore-sidekick-content-migrator/ Our Customisations If there is some interest from the Community in making these available I will look to package them up and share them. 1 6
Editor's Notes
- Hi everyone, good to see a few friendly faces in the audience, some of you may already now me My Names Adam Seabridge, I’m a freelance Sitecore developer. I’ve been working with Sitecore for over 4 years. I’m currently working at Code Computer love I wanted to share with you my thoughts on Automating Content syncs using Content Migrator
- Has anyone used Content Migrator before?
- Built by Jeff Darchuk Not by Kam Figgy (the creator of Unicorn) Although they did work together at Connective DX Content Migrator also uses the Rainbow Serialisation from Unicorn
- So why would you want to use Content Migrator? I’m sure every here has had to try and debug an issue on dev or staging Site and found they a missing some content to re-create the issue. Fine you think, ill just create a Sitecore package, then half an hour later your still creating packages to pull down missing components and images from Sitecore. This episode of Rick and Morty is just like that. Rick say’s to Morty ‘Come on, lets go on a quick 20 minute adventure, in and out’ and 6hrs later they are still stuck in a parallel universe fighting monsters.