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Sitefinity - TFS CICD – Part 1

cicd | Sitefinity, DevOps, Hosting | 2020-07-20

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Important notes

Only include files and deploy to solution
Project should be using nuget feed
Project should have have Debug and Release mode

Project Structure

/(root)
/Nuget.config
/DemoServer
/DataConfig.config
/Sitefinity.lic
/packages
/(nuget packages)
/SitefinityWebApp
/(sitefinity related files)
/bin
/Properties/PublishProfiles/PublishProfile.pubxml
/SitefinityWebApp.csproj

Setting

DemoServer Folder

DataConfig.config – include ConnectionString of database server
Sitefinity.lic

SitefinityWebApp Release mode setting

DebugType: None
Optimize: True
AllowedReferenceRelatedFileExtensions: –

SitefinityWebApp Publish Profile

Web Publish Method: FileSystem
Target Location: ../publish
Delete Existing File: True
Configuration: Release
Exclude App Data: false

Nuget.config

setting3

What to expect on the local /publish folder?

It is building project with Publish mode

table1

With the published files, we can always try to host on local IIS to make sure everything is fine before configure the CICD pipeline.

And yes, basically what we see on local /publish folder will be expected to deploy to destination server with CICD pipeline.

Part 2 will discuss further the CICD pipeline configuration