Required external data services

In production environments, external data services must be hosted outside the Sitecore XP cluster.

To reduce the time required for development and testing, sample external service deployments for K8s are provided for non-production use only.

The following services are required:

• Microsoft SQL Server

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2025

    or

  • SQL Azure Elastic Database Pool

• Apache Solr 10.0.0 (SolrCloud mode)
• RedisLabs Redis 4.0 or higher