Release Notes

December 2016 - released Sitecore Azure Tookit 1.0 rev. 161125

This is initial release of Sitecore Azure Toolkit.

Sitecore Azure Toolkit simplifies the tasks of packaging and deploying Sitecore solutions for Microsoft Azure AppService.

Features:

• Tools and resources to transform a Sitecore instance into role-specific packages for Content Delivery, Content Management, Processing and Reporting roles in XM and XP environments.
• Role configuration, security configuration and Azure services integration out of the box.
• Provision an Azure resource group with the required resources and deploy Sitecore application packages to Azure AppService.
• Limited support for converting Sitecore Installer packages into MSDeploy format for later deployment to Azure AppService (files only).

Notes:

• Provisioning templates for Azure Resource Manager are available in a Github repository.
• Pre-built packages for use with provisioning templates are located on the download page for Sitecore Experience Platform 8.2 Update-1.