Standing up a Sitecore 10.2 Instance

Standing up an instance of Sitecore 10.2 on docker is pretty straightforward. The Sitecore team has done an excellent job of covering all the detailed steps required, which if you’ve never stood up an instance of Sitecore running on containers in your local instance is really useful. If that’s you then you should consider reading the developers install guide, otherwise, if you just want a quick guide, continue on.

1. Ensure your local environment meets the requirements in Section 1.2 of the 10.2 Container Installation Guide

2. Download the Sitecore Container Deployment Package and extract. As I am going to be standing up Sitecore XP0 environment copy the contents of ..\SitecoreContainerDeployment.10.2.0.006766.683\compose\ltsc2019\xp0 to c:\projects\Sitecore102

3. Make sure you don’t have anything running on the required TCP ports mentioned in section 1.2.3:

Required Port	Role	Description
443	Traefik	HTTPS Proxy
8079	Traefik	Traefik Dashboard
8984	Solr	Solr API and Dashboard
14330	SQL	SQL Server

You can run the following to see processes using a specific port:

Get-Process -Id (Get-NetTCPConnection -LocalPort 8984).OwningProcess

Alternatively, you can modify your docker-compose file and configure these services to use a different port.

4. Next we need to run PowerShell script compose-init.ps1 in the c:\projects\Sitecore102 directory to prep the deployment. This performs the following actions:

Compresses the Sitecore license file
Creates the Identity Server token signing certificate
Populates the .env file
Generates TLS/HTTPS certificates
Installs the root certificate into your Trusted Root Certification Authorities
Updates Windows host names

The script params are detailed in section 1.3.3, most of these are optional and will use the default values contained in the script if not provided. The only mandatory param is LicenseXmlPath.

.\compose-init.ps1 -Topology “xp0” -LicenseXmlPath “C:\Sitecore\license\2021\license.xml”