Walkthrough: Adding Tenant Service module to Sitecore in Azure Kubernetes Service

Abstract

Guide to adding the Sitecore Data Exchange Framework Tenant Service module to a container environment using Azure Kubernetes Service.

You can add Data Exchange Framework (DEF) Tenant Service (TS) to a container environement in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

Note

For AKS deployments, the preferrred URLs for TS connection strings are:

host=http://cm.default.svc.cluster.local;
auth endpoint=http://id.default.svc.cluster.local/

This walkthrough describes how to:

Prepare files and folders for deployment.
Deploy the AKS containers using kubectl commands..

Prepare files and folders for deployment

To prepare files and folders in your Kubernetes installation for deployment:

Download the Sitecore Experience Platform (SXP) container deployment package from the Sitecore download page. Extract the package and save it, with the folder structure intact, in a temporary folder on your local machine.
Download the DEF-TS container deployment package from the Sitecore download page. Extract it to your local workstation with the folder structure intact.
In the DEF-TS container deployment folder, copy the def-ts\k8s\ltsc2019\overrides\<topology> folder to the clipboard.
In the Sitecore Experience Platform (SXP) container deployment package, navigate to the K8s\<version>\overrides folder, and paste in the def-ts\k8s\ltsc2019\overrides\<topology> folder (from the clipboard) as ts-<topology> (at the same level as the def topology folder).
In the SXP container deployment package, in the overrides\ts-<topology>\ingress-nginx folder, locate the kustomization.yaml file. Make sure that parameters in the bases: section are overlays with the Sitecore SXP ingress-nginx folder for your installation, for example, ../../../xp1/ingress-nginx.
In the SXP container deployment package, in each of the overrides\ts-<topology> and overrides\ts-<topology>\secrets folders, locate the kustomization.yaml file. In each file, make sure that parameters in the bases section are overlays with the Sitecore DEF overrides folder respectively for your installation, for example, ../xp1.
Note
Parameters in the bases: section contain the placement of the original Sitecore container deployment files or Sitecore DEF deployment files that the kustomization.yaml files override.
In the overrides\ts-<topology>\kustomization.yaml file, in the images: section, make sure the newName and newTag parameters have the appropriate values for the TS images.
In the overrides\ts-<topology>\secrets folder, open the tenant-service-sitecore-connection.txt file and update the connection string details. The file contains an example of how the connection string should look.
In the overrides\ts-<topology>\secrets\tls\global-ts folder, add the TLS certificates tsl.crt and tls.key for the ts.globalhost host. To add HTTP/TLS certificates for the Tenant Service, see the Installation Guide for Production Environment with Kubernetes guide.

Deploy the AKS containers

Before you deploy the containers to Kubernetes, you must prepare the AKS cluster configuration and deploy the ingress controller. For information on how to do this, see the Installation Guide for Production Environment for Kubernetes which is available on the Sitecore download page.

To deploy the container and the necessary Kubernetes components:

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

Deploy the secrets. Use this command:

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

Run the ingress folder. Use this command:

kubectl apply -k ./overrides/ts-<topology>/ingress-nginx/

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
```

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/ts-<topology>/
```
Wait for all containers to have the status Ok/Running. You can check the status with the kubectl get pods command. Obtain the external IP address by using this command:
```
kubectl get service -l app=nginx-ingress
```
Update the local host file with the external IP address. For information on how to do this, see the Installation Guide for Production Environment for Kubernetes, which is available on the Sitecore download page.
To check that the service is running, open a browser, and browse to https:\\ts.globalhost.
Note
If you get a Your connection isn't private response, click Advanced, then click Continue to ts.globalhost (unsafe) to continue.