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Auto Scaling Group
This post is part of a bigger topic Autoscaling Publishers in AWS.Now that we have a Launch Configuration, based on it, we can create an Auto Scaling Group. This will be in charge of...
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Scaling Policies
This post is part of a bigger topic Autoscaling Publishers in AWS.In a previous post we talked about the Auto Scaling Groups, but we didn't go into details on the Scaling Policies. This is the purpose...
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Terminate Lifecycle Hook
This post is part of a bigger topic Autoscaling Publishers in AWS.In a previous post, I mentioned the LifeCycle Termination Hooks for our Auto Scaling Policy. In this post, we see more details about...
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Using Elastic File System for Out-Scaled Deployers
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Menlo} span.s1 {font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures} In a scaled-out scenario for Content Delivery Deployers, it is possible to setup a...
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Using ElastiCache (Redis) for Out-Scaled Deployers
In a scaled-out scenario for Content Delivery Deployers, it is possible to setup an AWS ElastiCache Redis DB as the Binary Storage medium for incoming transport packages.The Deployer Receiver writes...
View ArticleUsing File System Queues for Out-Scaled Deployers
When a Deployer Receiver receives a transport package, it notifies the Deployer Workers there is 'work' for them to do. This notification can take the form of files on a shared File System. The...
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Using Amazon SQS for Out-Scaled Deployers
When a Deployer Receiver receives a transport package, it notifies the Deployer Workers there is 'work' for them to do. This notification can take the form of JMS messages sent using some kinds of...
View ArticleFine-Tuning the Publishers-Deployers Infrastructure
In order to squeeze the most performance out of the publishing in a Tridion, SDL Web system, there is a high amount of parameters and configurations that must all be optimized. This post presents a few...
View Articlesdl-healthcheck as Windows Service
This post describes how to convert the 'sdl-healthcheck' application to a Windows Service.SDL-healthcheck is a Java application that creates a webservice around the SDL Web microservices in order to...
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Install ADFS Server and Relying Party
In the next series of blog posts, I am writing about securing SDL Web 8.5 (on-premise installation) against an Active Directory, through an ADFS (Active Directory Federation Service) server.The goal is...
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Single Sign-On SDL Web 8.5 CME and ADFS
In order to use SDL Web 8.5 and ADFS, we first have to enable SSO (Single Sign-On) on the SDL Web side.The setup I have is:SDL Web 8.5 installed in AWS (but it is the on-premise version of SDL...
View ArticleSAML Authenticator Web 8.5 with ADFS
This post continues the setup of Single Sign-On for Web 8.5 with ADFS presented in an earlier blog post.This SAML Authenticator is a .NET HTTP Module that is configured to intercept all requests going...
View ArticleCoreService with ADFS
This post presents a way to connect to the SDL Web 8.5 CoreService form a .NET client using ADFS federated security.In this particular setup, the client application -- a .NET Console application --...
View ArticleCoreService and ADFS with Issued Token
If in an earlier post CoreService with ADFS, I was talking about XML configuration of the .NET client application when connecting to a SDL Web 8.5 instance secured with ADFS, in this post I am showing...
View ArticleBasic Authenticator Web 8.5 with ADFS
This post presents a Basic Authenticator wrapper around ADFS security. This authenticator allows a client and web-service to use Basic authorization security, while the actual security authentication...
View ArticleAdfsClient Class
As mentioned in a previous blog post, this class takes care of the interaction with the ADFS server.Its main functionality is to request and decrypt SAML tokens from an ADFS server.The class makes use...
View ArticleA Validating Saml2SecurityTokenHandler
In a previous blog post, I talked about a SecurityTokenHandlers collection of different security tokens. This is a class from the .NET security framework and it allows a unified entry to different...
View ArticleImportExport Service with ADFS
Using the ImportExport service with ADFS authentication is quite straight forward, if we use the Basic Authenticator. This one exposes a Basic authentication scheme, while communicating with the ADFS...
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Content Porter 8.5 with ADFS
Content Porter uses Basic auth to communicate with the ImportExport service. This means the federated security approach will not work.Luckily, we have the Basic Authenticator that exposes the ADFS...
View ArticleTemplateBuilder and Assembly Upload Services with ADFS
Using either of the templating services (i.e. AssemblyTemplateUploadWebService.asmx and CompoundTemplateWebService.asmx) with ADFS authentication is quite straight forward, if we use the Basic...
View ArticleWorkflow Listener SDL Web 8.5 with ADFS
Using the Workflow listener service with ADFS authentication is quite straight forward, if we use the Basic Authenticator. The service WFListener.asmx is not a WCF service, therefore we can't use...
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JavaScript Client for CoreService
This blog post shows a way to connect to CoreService directly from a JavaScript client. The CoreService is a WCF web-service, which by default uses SOAP to communicate with its clients. However, it is...
View ArticleJQuery JavaScript Client for CoreService
In my previous post, I presented a JavaScript CoreService client that was using the out-of-the-box Visual Studio project and a WCF generated JS proxies using the Microsoft AJAX framework.In this blog...
View ArticleCreate User from JavaScript Client Using CoreService
This post presents some sample code on how to create a Tridion user from JavaScript client using the CoreService. It is based on the setup presented in previous posts and it only makes use of JQuery...
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Content Delivery Monitoring in AWS with CloudWatch
This post describes a way of monitoring a Tridion 9 combined Deployer by sending the health checks into a custom metric in CloudWatch in AWS. The same approach can also be used for other Content...
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