bplasmeijer/sitecore-symposium-2020-containers-aks

Containers & AKS: Taking Sitecore 10 to the next level

Installing prerequisite software

• Install Powershell
• Install the Azure CLI / Current release of the Azure CLI

The current script will install Kubernetes version 1.17.11. If you want to change to another version, please update the scripts.

# list Azure locations
az account list-locations -o table

# get  Azure locations
az aks get-versions -l west-europe -o table 

KubernetesVersion    Upgrades
-------------------  ------------------------
1.19.0(preview)      None available
1.18.8               1.19.0(preview)
1.18.6               1.18.8, 1.19.0(preview)
1.17.11              1.18.6, 1.18.8
1.17.9               1.17.11, 1.18.6, 1.18.8
1.16.15              1.17.9, 1.17.11
1.16.13              1.16.15, 1.17.9, 1.17.11

Scripts

All the scripts has default values in place.

Create the Azure resource group, and create Azure Container Registry

.\1.CreateDepends.ps1 -Region ... -ResourceGroup ... -MyRegistry ... -SkuAcr ... 

Create the AKS Kubernetes cluster:

• two Linux nodes (Kubernetes core)
• one Windows node
• assign ACR to cluster
• grep authenticate

.\2.CreateAKS.ps1 -Region -ResourceGroup -AksName -AcrName -AzureWindowsPassword   

Install the tools:

• kubectl (Kubernetes CLI)
• Helm (Package manager CLI)

.\3.InstallTools.ps1 -Region -ResourceGroup -AksName -AcrName 

Set-up cluster

• deploy helm chart ingress-nginx/ingress-nginx

.\4.CreateNginx.ps1

Create solution

• Create Kubernetes namespace
• Please check 1.2.2 Kubernetes secrets in the Installation Guide for Production Environment with Kubernetes
• Set your own secrets based on the guide.

.\5.CreateNamespaceAndSecrets.ps1

Deploy the external services

• Microsoft SQL
• Solr
• Redis

.\6.Externals.ps1  

Intiozalie the external services

• Microsoft SQL
• Solr

.\7.Init.ps1

Deploy the solution

.\8.SolutionAndNginx.ps1

sitecore-symposium-2020-containers-aks's Issues

Issue with connecting to MSSQL Pod from Mssql init Job

While executing Init.ps1, the MSSQL Init Jobs fail. I Verified that the MSSQL Pod is created and running.
Even I tried to redeploy both Mssql pod and rerun the jobs.

Following are the logs from the Init Pods. Any help to troubleshoot this would be appreciated.

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Sqlcmd: Error: Microsoft ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server : Named Pipes Provider: Could not open a connection to SQL Server [53]. .
Sqlcmd: Error: Microsoft ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server : Login timeout expired.
Sqlcmd: Error: Microsoft ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server : A network-related or instance-specific error has occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. Server is not found or not accessible. Check if inst
ance name is correct and if SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. For more information see SQL Server Books Online..
sqlcmd exited with code 1
At C:\DeployDatabases.ps1:91 char:9

•     throw "sqlcmd exited with code $LASTEXITCODE"
  

•     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  

  • CategoryInfo : OperationStopped: (sqlcmd exited with code 1:Str
    ing) [], RuntimeException
  • FullyQualifiedErrorId : sqlcmd exited with code 1