Walkthrough: Installing Data Exchange Framework in Azure Kubernetes Service

You must prepare the installation files and images as explained in Walkthrough: Preparing to install Data Exchange Framework in a container environment.

Tag the images with the docker tag command. For example:

docker tag sitecore-def-xp0-assets:6.0.0.01525.109-10.0.19042.804-2009 $registry/experimental/def/sitecore-xp1-cm:sc101def

Push the images to your Azure registry with the docker push command. For example:

docker push $registry/experimental/def/sitecore-xp1-cm:sc101def

Open the folder where you extracted the Data Exchange Framework container deployment package.

Navigate to the DEF.Asset\k8s\<version> folder, for example, DEF.Asset\k8s\ltsc2019. Copy the overrides subfolder to the Sitecore Experience Platform (SXP) container deployment package, in the k8s\<version> folder (on the same level as the xp1 folder).

In the SXP container deployment package, in each of the overrides\<topology>, and overrides\<topology>\secrets folders, locate the kustomization.yaml file. In each file, update parameters in the bases section with the appropriate folder names for your installation, for example, ../../xp1.

In each kustomization.yaml file, in the images: section, update the newName and newTag parameters with the values for the images you pushed to the Azure Registry, for example cm, cd, xdbautomationworker, and id.

If you are deploying the XP1 topology, in the overrides\<topology>\secrets folder, in the sitecore-tenant-service-connection-string.txt file, update the connection string details. The file contains an example of the connection string.

Open the Windows console, and navigate to the k8s\<version> folder.

Deploy the secrets:

Run the external folder. Use this command:

kubectl apply -k ./<topology>/external/

Wait for all containers to have the status Ok/Running. You can check the status with this command:

kubectl get pods -o wide

Run the init folder. Use this command:

kubectl apply -k ./<topology>/init/

Wait for all containers to have the status Completed. You can check the status with this command:

kubectl get pods -o wide

To create persistent volumes, run this command:

kubectl apply -f ./<topology>/volumes/azurefile

Run the Sitecore containers with the SFCRM changes. Use this command:

kubectl apply -k ./overrides/<topology>/

Wait for all containers to have the status Ok/Running. You can check the status with this command :

kubectl get pods -o wide

Obtain the external IP address. Use this command:

kubectl get service -l app=nginx-ingress

Update the local host file. For information on how to do this, see the Installation Guide for Production Environment for Kubernetes, which is available on the Sitecore download page.