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Sitecore AKS - Collection shard cluster health check completed with status Unhealthy and Health check for shard cluster is failed.

The Problem While running the installation steps for setting up Sitecore XP in AKS, we found that the CM/CD pods are not running. This was primarily due to the fact that CM/CD pods were waiting on other pods like xDBsearch to come to running state due to wait-initialization. After waiting for significant time, we found that xDBsearch pod is not coming up and it probably has an issue. Ran kubectl logs command to check xdbsearch logs and found below entries -  The Solution This error definitely implied that the shard databases have some issue. We deleted the shard databases and ran the init job again. When the init job completes, it is advisable to check logs by running kubectl logs command. This will inform if the job was successful or did it errored out at some point. Once the shard databases were recreated, we recreated the pods and this time the xdbsearch pods came up fine. Thanks for reading :)
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My Contributions to Sitecore Community in 2024

Hello!! This year, I have mostly worked on Sitecore 10.1.1 as part of IT team of an accounting services organization. Due to my nature of work, I dont have exposure to different projects exploring variety of new Sitecore tools and technologies (like my other fellow MVPs have), but I have used this year to upgrade my learning and dig deeper into Sitecore XP on which I primarily work. Below are my contributions this year -  Sitecore Blogs Below are the links to all my blogs which I have published in year 2022 on Sitecore.  https://ghanendras.blogspot.com/2024/11/sitecore-installation-on-kubernetes.html https://ghanendras.blogspot.com/2024/11/sitecore-bug-502996-checkbox-rendering.html https://ghanendra-singh.vercel.app/posts/customize-sitecore-desktop https://ghanendras.blogspot.com/2024/11/sitecore-solr-error-keepererrorcode.html https://ghanendras.blogspot.com/2024/11/cannot-find-options-for.html https://ghanendras.blogspot.com/2024/11/links-db-in-sitecore-not-consistent.html ...
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Installing Sitecore 10.4 on Kubernetes: A Step-by-Step Guide

Introduction Recently, a community member attempted to install Sitecore 10.4 on a Kubernetes (K8s) cluster and reached out to me regarding the challenges they faced. Despite following Sitecore's standard installation document, they encountered issues due to their limited knowledge of Kubernetes. This blog post summarizes their experience and serves as a reference for other developers in a similar situation. Steps for Installation To successfully set up a Sitecore instance in a K8s cluster, follow these detailed steps: Prerequisites Access to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) : Ensure you have the ability to create namespaces and clusters in AKS. Having a team member knowledgeable in Kubernetes is highly beneficial. Local Tools : Install Azure CLI, Chocolatey, and Helm on your local machine. You'll be needing these while executing commands in PowerShell. Cluster Specifications Ensure your cluster meets these specifications: Kubernetes 1.27.x or later Windows Server 2019 version 18...
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Sitecore bug 502996 - Checkbox Rendering Parameter is taking value from standard values if not checked

 The Problem In a recent project based on Sitecore 10.1.4, I encountered an intriguing issue with Sitecore’s rendering parameters. Specifically, I was working with a rendering parameter template that included Checkbox fields. The standard values for these fields were set to “checked”  Observed Behavior When reading these values for a page rendering, I noticed the following behavior: Unchecking the Checkbox: The value remained “1”. Unchecking the Checkbox and adding another rendering parameter with a value: The checkbox value became null (as expected). This led me to question why the checkbox value remained “1” when unchecked, unless a value was added to the one of the rendering parameter field. The Analysis Upon further investigation and raising a support ticket with Sitecore, it was confirmed that this behavior is indeed a bug in the current Sitecore version. The checkbox rendering parameter appears to read from the standard value if unchecked, which is not the expected behav...
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Sitecore Solr Error - KeeperErrorCode = Session expired for /aliases.json

 The Problem We use SOLRcloud for SOLR with Zookeeper. While performing my routine development activities, I encountered that my local SOLR instance is giving a weird error as shown in snapshot below -  The Solution We checked SOLR logs and could see error like below repeating continuously -  2024-11-10 22:31:31.216 ERROR (zkConnectionManagerCallback-7-thread-1-EventThread) [   ] o.a.s.c.LeaderElector node exists => org.apache.zookeeper.KeeperException$NodeExistsException: KeeperErrorCode = NodeExists for /overseer_elect/leader at org.apache.zookeeper.KeeperException.create(KeeperException.java:126) org.apache.zookeeper.KeeperException$NodeExistsException: KeeperErrorCode = NodeExists for /overseer_elect/leader at org.apache.zookeeper.KeeperException.create(KeeperException.java:126) ~[zookeeper-3.5.5.jar:3.5.5] at org.apache.zookeeper.KeeperException.create(KeeperException.java:54) ~[zookeeper-3.5.5.jar:3.5.5] at org.apache.zookeeper.ZooKeeper.create(...
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