Project Details

• Sitecore XM 10.4.0-ltsc2022
• SPE 7.0
• SXA 10.4
• Headless Services 22
• Custom Images:
  • Windows Hosts Writer
  • Solr Init Standalone

Requirements

• Docker Desktop 4.27.2 (other versions have stability issues with windows containers)

Setup Steps

0. Make sure you've stopped IIS and Solr:

   iisreset /stop

   Stop-Service -Name "<the name of your service>"

   or

   nssm stop "<the name of your service>"

1. Initialize your local docker environment: .\init.ps1 -LicenseXmlPath <path_to_license>\.xml -ProjectName <whatever>

   • Make sure that the path to your license file is not too long (ex. C:\licenses\license.xml) and not expired

2. Build your Tools Images: docker compose -f .\docker-compose.build.yml build tools

3. Build your NodeJs Images: docker compose -f .\docker-compose.build.yml build nodejs

4. Build your Sitecore Images: docker compose -f .\docker-compose.build.yml build

   • When it's done, you can run docker images <whatever>* and you should see something like this:

     REPOSITORY	TAG	IMAGE ID	CREATED	SIZE
     whatever-solr-init	latest	5b437ae0ad9c	About a minute ago	5.77GB
     whatever-mssql-init	latest	072e70edea5f	About a minute ago	5.84GB
     whatever-cm	latest	fba4a9fdb979	2 minutes ago	9.44GB
     whatever-id	latest	7290cf235c37	9 days ago	639MB

5. Initialize your Sitecore Environment: docker compose -f .\docker-compose.init.yml up

   • This process will take a little bit. Ensure that you see "Set Sitecore admin password"
   • Once you do, hit Ctrl + C

6. Start Sitecore: docker compose up -d --remove-orphans (--remove-orphans first time only)

7. Open https://cm.whatever.local/sitecore for CM

8. At this point, you can create your headless application and map it into the rendering container (and disable the "replicas: 0")