Merging the resources of your Content Deployer endpoint and worker microservices into one

Support for two separate Content Deployer services (endpoint and worker) was dropped as from Tridion Sites 9.6. So if you currently have this setup, you must combine the resources and configurations of both Content Deployer microservices into one. If you are running a single, combined Content Deployer, skip this task.

Procedure

  1. For each of the two microservices, if the server on which the microservice is installed is a Windows machine, uninstall the Windows service by doing the following:
    1. On the server, open a Powershell command prompt.
    2. Access the bin\ subfolder of the microservice root folder.
    3. Run the script called uninstallService.ps1.
  2. For each of the two microservices, on the server on which the microservice is installed, do the following:
    1. Navigate to the configuration location of the microservice.
    2. Back up the contents of this folder to a safe location.
    3. Back up any custom microservice extensions you have created, along with their configuration files, to a safe location.
    4. Delete all files and subfolders from the microservice location.
  3. Copy resources for your preferred Content Deployer setup to a location of your choice.
  4. For each of your backed-up configuration files, do the following:
    1. If each service has an instance of the configuration file, merge the contents of both files into one combined configuration file.
    2. Merge the (combined) configuration file with the new instance of the file as copied from the new installation media.
  5. From both microservices, restore any backed-up custom microservice extensions, along with their backed-up configuration files, to your microservice.
  6. Configure and run the installation script for the single, combined Content Deployer.