Daivagna Nanavati

 Hello People, Today, i will be writing about the issue we had on one of our Sitecore app which was hosted on azure, Everything was working fine until fine morning, Our CD site started giving "502 Bad Gateway" error page. With my surprise, i hit the refresh button 4-5 times to double check if its really down or what? but yes it was down and had no clue, we did not have any deployments, we did not deploy anything, and why it just stopped working? Problem CD Sites started giving 502 bad gateway out of the blue and suddenly Troubleshooting & Solution To resolve this issue, we did everything possible, but very first thing i did was to blame azure infrastructure or the plan under which the app was running, Because we did not deploy anything, no new code binaries, so why it stopped, so i got on a call with our DevOps team and started discussing the possibilities from infrastructure point of view, and we did following steps together until the issue got resolved 1) We started dig...

Hello Folks, Last week we have had couple of deployments on different environments, and we have similar standard environments like Dev, Stage, Production and so on Our DEV environment is something all of our developer uses and we have set up automated deployments on azure apps via octopus deployment and DEV environment generally has lot of deployments happening as and when developers finish their work Stage and Production are something i have a control over, so i make sure that i do all branching and merging and deployment plans for it and do the deployments (of course we do it as a team :) ), and i never faced this issue in those environments. Now from last week i was just observing that our developers are triggering the deployment and the DEV deployment was taking longtime, Our last deployment took around 6+ hours which is completely insane, So i start digging to see why it is happening and i also observed that gradually as the weeks passed, the deployment was taking longer time, so ...