Where to place Custom XConnect Model file in Azure

Question

I had a custom Model JSON file in on Premise environment under the XConnect Project/App_Data/Models folder.

Now we are moving to Azure. I see there are more roles in the Azure environment like xc-collect, cortex-processing, cortex-reporting. I don't have an idea in which project I need to place my custom file.

Please suggest to me how to find out the appropriate location for my new file.

Answer 1

Deploy the JSON file to below locations on Azure:

1. <Instance-Name>-xc-search -> App_Data/Models
2. <Instance-Name>-xc-search -> App_Data/jobs/continuous/IndexWorker/App_data/Models
3. <Instance-Name>-xc-collect -> App_Data/Models
4. <Instance-Name>-xc-refdata -> App_Data/Models
5. <Instance-Name>-ma-ops -> App_Data/Models

For more details, refer to this blogpost https://sitecorewithraman.wordpress.com/2021/06/06/deploying-xconnect-customizations-on-azure/ which will guide you, if you’re customizing any of the marketing capability of Sitecore then on which app services on Azure you’ll place the related assemblies, XML or config.

Answer 2

You will want to refer to the 'Deploy a custom model' documentation for your version. This link is for 10.0: https://doc.sitecore.com/developers/100/sitecore-experience-platform/en/deploy-a-custom-model.html

From the docs, the roles that should be updated are:

• All instances of xConnect Collection
• All instances of xConnect Collection Search
• xConnect Search Indexer
• Marketing Automation Operations
• Marketing Automation Engine
• Content Delivery
• Content Management
• xDB Processing

Depending on how you configured your Azure installation, some of these roles may be merged together into a single app service.