Add support for Sitecore 8

[tomharrison]

Make it possible to install Sitecore 8.

[Vapok]

Hi Tom, I'm going to be working on updating this for Sitecore 8. I'm not sure if there's that much updating that needs to happen, but I've got a client where we are using Chef to implement Sitecore and they are going to be using Sitecore 8.

I'm also, at the same time, going to be working on extending the config and setting capabilities. Feel free to message me at vapokrocks at gmail if you want to chat about it.

[tomharrison]

Hi Pete,

Thanks very much for your interest. I'm glad to hear this project may be useful to your client.

We've run this cookbook in production for Sitecore 7 & 7.5, but have also spun up a few Sitecore 8 test site VMs successfully with this latest cookbook version.

Give it a shot and let me know what you find. We're also currently planning a Sitecore 8 project that will use the cookbook, so I'll keep you in the loop.

Thanks again!

[Vapok]

Super Saturday Tom,

I see you're using a lot of powershell for things. Any reason why you're
not leveraging more of the IIS cookbook or sqlserver cookbook? Just curious.

We got our Sitecore 8 cookbook working well. I've found a few bugs with the
current cookbook, nothing major. But you've done a good amount of legwork.
I'd like to add in a sitecore_package resource for handling packages as
well as more advanced config management. I'm also thinking of doing an
upgrade patch resource too.

We added chocolatey for doing the mongo installs too!

So many ideas! I'll keep you posted too.

Pete
On Sep 29, 2015 11:18 AM, "Tom Harrison" [email protected] wrote:

Hi Pete,

Thanks very much for your interest. I'm glad to hear this project may be
useful to your client.

We've run this cookbook in production for Sitecore 7 & 7.5, but have also
spun up a few Sitecore 8 test site VMs successfully with this latest
cookbook version.

Give it a shot and let me know what you find. We're also currently
planning a Sitecore 8 project that will use the cookbook, so I'll keep you
in the loop.

Thanks again!

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[tomharrison]

The reason for the use of PowerShell is two-fold:

1. This cookbook expands upon a set of PowerShell scripts we were originally using.
2. PS gives fine-grained control over some settings which, at the time, I wasn't able to access through the IIS or SQLServer cookbooks.

A sitecore_package resource is a great idea. Deploying packages across environments is something we've also had to solve for. Accomplishing it with Chef would be very cool.

Thanks again for diving into all of this. It sounds like you're making a lot of great progress.