Sitecore 2021 VDD Session: Deploying Your Sitecore Helix Solution to Docker Using MSBuild

Points from Shelley Benhoff's session:

Started with local deployment process in Docker

1. Used Github Docker Getting Started example:

Sitecore 10 CM image:

data cm folder: docker file location, log files will be copied here, shared volume 

deploy folder: where you publish code from vs sln

docker build\cm: Base image +  customizations

.env file

Don't touch docker compose file: since this has info abt base images

create an override instead has

cm service -  has following sections:

build section

volumes section

entry point run a ps1 script

then docker-compose up

Go to VS and setup project for local deployment:

- Create publish profile to deploy to local folder

Since code is compiled to local deploy webroot folder

Check file system within container to check deployment

c:\tools\entrypoints\iis\development.ps1

used to do local deploys

c:\deploy has the files to be deployed

all contents from VS will be deployed to c:\deploy first

2. In case of CI system, need more headless and automated process

Containerize the build process

Control build deploy in your solution

Leverage Docker Builder Pattern

- 2 docker images

Optimized size thru this approach

Without builder pattern the size of image produced will be very large

Multi-stage builds: Give all benefits of builder pattern without maintaining separate docker files

Full control over built env

Portable containers

Docker file:

Base image and build image as args

docker exec  command

docker images to list all images

Separate build and run images is the advantage of multi stage builds

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