Building a production-grade CI/CD pipeline for Umbraco 17: GitHub Actions to Azure App Service with zero-downtime slot swaps, Docker Compose for local development, uSync in the pipeline, Azure Blob Storage for media, and environment-specific configuration.
How to integrate AI assistants into your Umbraco migration workflow: prompt patterns for Umbraco-specific tasks, using Umbraco 17's built-in Developer MCP, Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) as migration governance, and the AI Champion model for tech teams.
The final leg: a layered testing strategy for Umbraco 17 migrations, from unit tests on converted services to content rendering tests, CI-integrated smoke tests, UAT checklists, and the 72-hour go-live runbook that keeps migrations from becoming crises.
Moving past the data migration to the real work: modernizing your Umbraco codebase to .NET 10, rebuilding templates with the current IPublishedContent API, restructuring content types with Block List, and applying Clean Architecture patterns to Umbraco projects.
When you're managing 10, 20, or 50 Umbraco sites, individual project economics don't work. The Marketing OS framework: shared NuGet packages, shared document type libraries, AI-accelerated delivery, and how to reduce per-site migration cost by 50–70%.
The step-by-step technical guide to migrating from Umbraco 7, 8, or 13 to Umbraco 17 LTS. Covering uSync Migrations, Nested Content to Block List conversion, Umbraco Deploy migrators, and how AI assists at each step.
Umbraco isn't just for websites. Here's how to use the Content Delivery API to power native mobile apps with React Native, Flutter, or .NET MAUI — with offline support, push notifications, and content syncing.
Before you write a single line of migration code, you need to know what you have. How to use AI to audit a legacy Umbraco project, score complexity, estimate effort, and produce the assessment document that drives every decision that follows.
Not every team wants React. Here are five production-ready alternatives for building marketing websites with headless Umbraco 17 — from Astro and Nuxt to SvelteKit, .NET Razor, and even plain HTML.
Turning MarketingOS into a reusable template: new client onboarding in under an hour, multi-tenant content management, cost analysis showing 70% reduction per site, lessons learned, and what I'd do differently.
Dockerizing MarketingOS with multi-stage builds for both Umbraco and Next.js, Docker Compose for the full stack, GitHub Actions CI/CD with contract tests, automated deployments, and environment promotion.
Umbraco 8 is already end-of-life. Umbraco 13 expires in December 2026. Here's the real cost of staying put, what Umbraco 17 delivers, and how AI changes the economics of every migration you've been delaying.
Integrating Google Gemini API with Umbraco for AI-powered content generation, multi-language translation, SEO meta optimization, and a content review workflow that keeps humans in the loop.
Implementing production-grade SEO for marketing websites: dynamic metadata from Umbraco, JSON-LD structured data, XML sitemaps, robots.txt, Open Graph, Core Web Vitals optimization, and Lighthouse 100.
Integrating Next.js 15 App Router with Umbraco's Content Delivery API using Server Components, building a reusable block renderer, ISR for content updates, and a marketing component library.
Designing Umbraco document types for marketing websites, building a block-based page builder with Block List and Block Grid, and exposing everything through the Content Delivery API.
Why headless Umbraco 17 with Next.js is the sweet spot for reusable marketing websites, the architecture decisions behind MarketingOS, and setting up both projects with Clean Architecture on .NET 10.
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