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Content Deployment with Umbraco

Mark Bowser

ProWorks Corporation Twitter: @Mark_Bowser Email: mark@proworks.com Website: www.proworks.com Phone: 541-752-9885

What is Content Deployment? Type of data Part of content deployment

Content Nodes

Media Nodes

Contour Forms

Code

Document Types

Data Types

Why use Content Deployment?

• Security reasons • Regulatory and other business reasons • Reduce load on server • Approval workflow

Deployment Methods I’m Covering

• Full site and DB copy • Courier • “Distributed Cache Deployment”

Full site and DB copy

Moriyama Udiff ProWorks deployment scripts

Authoring

Production

UDiff Output

Authoring Production

Full site and DB copy Pros Cons

No surprises Downtime

Code + content changes deployed Indexing trouble

Cannot deploy select items

May need to rely on client IT

Courier Pros Cons

Can deploy specific items Courier requires experience and training

Can be extended to deploy things like Contour forms

Possibility of accidentally deploying document types and/or data types

Possibility of deploying unintended content

Learning curve

“Distributed Cache Deployment”

Authoring

Production

Umbraco.config

Authoring Media

Production Media

Umbraco.config

WebApi call

“Distributed Cache Deployment” Pros Cons

Can deploy specific items Possibility of things going live before ready

Very little training required Security

No need to worry about DB level dependencies

No surprises

Other tools

• Conveyor • uMirror • uSync Content Edition

Questions

ProWorks Corporation Twitter: @Mark_Bowser Email: mark@proworks.com Website: www.proworks.com Phone: 541-752-9885