Walkthrough: Upgrading the SFMCBDE connector to version 7.0 in Kubernetes
You can upgrade Salesforce Marketing Cloud Behavioral Data Exchange (SFMCBDE) on your Azure Kubernetes installation from 6.0 to SFMCBDE 7.0. SFMCBDE 7.0 is compatible with Sitecore 10.2.
Before you upgrade SFMCBDE for container 6.0 to SFMCBDE for container 7.0 you must:
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Back up the mssql databases.
This walkthrough describes how to:
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Build and push the mssql-upgrade image
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Perform the upgrade
Build and push the mssql-upgrade image
To upgrade SFMCBDE, you must build an mssql-upgrade image.
To build and push the mssql-upgrade image:
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Build the images for SFMCBDE as explained in the Build the mssql-upgrade image section in Walkthrough: Upgrading the SFMCBDE connector to version 7.0 in Docker.
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Open the Windows console and use the docker tag command to tag the images. For example:
RequestResponseshelldocker tag sitecore-sfmcbde-xp1-cm:<imageVersionTag> $registry/sitecore-sfmcbde-xp1-cm:<newTag>
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In the console, use the docker push command to push the images to your Azure registry. For example:
RequestResponseshelldocker push $registry/sitecore-sfmcbde-xp1-cm:<newTag>
Perform the upgrade
To upgrade to SFMCBDE 7.0 on Sitecore 10.2:
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Download the Sitecore container deployment package for 10.2 from the Sitecore download page. Extract it to your local workstation with the folder structure intact.
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Navigate to the upgrade folder for the Windows version and topology you are using, for example,
k8s\ltsc2019\upgrade\xp1
. In thekustomization.yaml
file, update the images section withnewName
andnewTag
attributes of custom mssql-upgrade image you created and pushed previously. -
In the
configuration
folder, update the secrets files. For more information on the secrets files, please refer to the Installation Guide for Production Environment with Kubernetes guide available on the Sitecore download page. -
Download the SFMCBDE container deployment package for 7.0 package from the Sitecore download page. Extract it to your local workstation with the folder structure intact. Copy the
SFMCBDE\k8s\<windows version>\overrides
folder and paste it into the\k8s\<windows version>\
folder in the SXP 10.2 deployment structure. -
In the
secrets
folder in the SXP 10.2 structure, for example,k8s\ltsc2019\overrides\xp1\secrets
, update thesitecore-salesforce-bde-connection-string.txt
secret file. -
Log in to the Azure CLI and set a subscription:
RequestResponseshellaz login az account set --subscription "Your Subscription"
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Get the credentials for the Kubernetes cluster that was created with the AKS cluster by running this command:
RequestResponseshellaz aks get-credentials --resource-group <10.1 resource group>--name <10.1 cluster>
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Deploy the Sitecore upgrade job by moving to the folder in step 2, where the updated files are, and running this command:
RequestResponseshellkubectl apply -k .\
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To check if the job has completed, run this command:
RequestResponseshellkubectl get pod
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When the upgrade process is completed, you can delete the Kubernetes upgrade job and upgrade secrets. In the console, go to the upgrade folder from step 2, and run these commands:
RequestResponseshellkubectl delete -f .\ kubectl delete -k .\
Upgrading with a custom mssql-image includes cleaning up SFMCBDE items from the database because SFMCBDE 7.0 has moved to using resources files. This requires rebuilding and upgrading the Sitecore role instances cm, xconnect, and xdbsearchworker.
For detailed instructions on how to build and deploy the Sitecore role instances please refer to the Sitecore Upgrade Container Deployment Guide on the Sitecore download page.