Recently, I was refactoring my Azure DevOps CI/CD scripts that setup and deploy Sitecore 10.1 on a newly created AKS. Deployment went smooth, until I tried to browse to the deployed environments. Nginx, configured with sitecore-ingress provided by Sitecore, returned a 404 Not Found. What gives?

I was contacted by a client to help them roll out Sitecore Kubernetes deployment (hooray for clients willing to invest in technology updates). Of course I came in prepared: I tried out Installation Guide for Production Environment with Kubernetes (on Azure AKS with my own subscription), and had a shiny new Sitecore 10.x up and running on https://globalhost.cd in no time.

When repeating the setup on the client’s subscription, deployment went well but we failed to log in into Sitecore: