Sitecore 8.2.1 on Azure PaaS Web Apps part 2: ARM Templates

As I already mentioned in the first part of the tutorial there are two ways to deploy Sitecore 8.2.1 to Azure Web Apps. In this post, I am going to talk about the second option which is installation using Azure Resource Manager Templates. Sitecore 8.2.1 ARM Deployment step by step: Install the latest version of Azure PowerShell SDK. Run PowerShell console and execute the above lines: Set-ExecutionPolicy AllSigned # Install the Azure Resource Manager modules from the PowerShell Gallery Install-Module AzureRM # Install the Azure Service Management module from the PowerShell Gallery Install-Module Azure I experienced an issue: "some modules…

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Sitecore 8.2.1 on Azure PaaS Web Apps part 1: Installation using Azure Marketplace

In Sitecore 8.2 since update 1, Sitecore provided out of the box support for Azure Platform as a Service deployments. Before Sitecore 8.2.1, it was possible to deploy Sitecore using Cloud Services which required custom deployment and had a few drawbacks like no support for some Sitecore modules like WFFM or EXM, burdensome maintenance, long deployments time and requirement of integration with third-party services because of lack of automatic scaling. Since Sitecore 8.2.1 there are possible two ways of deployments: One-click deployment option using Azure Marketplace Powershell based deployment using Azure Resource Manager Templates In this post, I am going…

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