Sifon

A must-have tool for any Sitecore developer, to simplify most of your day-to-day DevOps activities

Downloads

Use this link to download your copy of Sifon. The source code is available at GitHub.

Those prefer installing with Chocolatey pakage manager can do: choco install sifon

You can learn what's new at the Release notes page.

Features

• functions with Sitecore versions 9.x and 10.x
• supports Windows 11 and latest release of XP 10.4
• offers the best Sitecore installation tool ever: powerfull, intuitive, self-downloading, can install XP into a remote VM over network
• performs backup, clean, restore operations against selected Sitecore instance out-of-the-box with a nice GUI
• you can choose the above operations for webroot, xConnect, Identity Server, Horizon and Publishing Service sites (or them all)
• supports Sitecore Commerce of both 9.x and 10.x versions
• supports and correctly handles instances installations outside inetpub\wwwroot folder
• environment auto-detection: hostnames, bindings, installed Solr instances
• supports multiple instances on a host via creating and selecting profiles
• all the above can be done on remote VM via WinRM (WsMan) with remote profile
• supports plugins both written in PowerShell or compiled .NET libraries
• plugins can use API for downloading and consuming resources from Sitecore Developers Portal
• plugins are kept in hierarchical order and, in fact, may be crowdsourced
• respects Windows services: marketing automation, xConnect search indexer, processing engine and of course IIS
• install / uninstall any number of versions of Solr to local or remote machines

Getting started

Please take a look at this video before the first run, as it explains important bits, such as setting up a profile on the first run and what Profiles are. It also shows you how to obtain the latesy collection of plugins from a public GitHib plugins repository.

Here you may find even more quick start videos and instructions

Documentation

Please go through the documentation in order to benefint the max from using Sifon.

• Quick start guide
• Installing Sitecore with Sifon
• Understanding Profiles
• Backup and Restore
• Public plugins library
• Creating own plugins
  • Basics
  • Labs & Demo
  • Meta
  • Sifon module
  • Shared API
    • Folder Browser
    • Index Selector
    • Local File Picker
    • Package Version Selector
    • Sitecore Version Selector
    • Text Editor
    • Sitecore Resources Downloader
  • Walkthrough: Creating a plugin
  • DLL Plugins
• Install/remove Solr
• Containers suport
• Sitecore Commerce suport
• Application settings
• Release notes
• Provide feedback
• Known issues

Impressive features to arrive later

• mass content migration utility between environments
• restore Sitecore from backup into another clean machine
• anything else, suggested by you

Sponsor this project

It took me big efforts in order to reach this point with Sifon becoming mature and publically available. And that's only the beginning!

Please use the above button to support me developing Sifon further ahead with lots of challenging milestones to reach, including containers support, automating most of your daily routines and the ability of creating GUI for virtually anything one can do with Sitecore.

License

Sifon is distributed under Apache License 2.0 license

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