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Getting Started with Apache Sling Repo Init by NextRow

Abstract

At times, setting up the initial state of AEM repository may appear cumbersome, especially when we have to setup multiple things beforehand such as:

1. Creating service users

2. Creating user groups

3. Setting up ACLs/permissions for these users

4. Base content structure inside /conf or /content

That said, it’s just not about the content, it could be configurations as well. Creating and setting up these configurations manually may lead to mistakes. Also, this doesn’t just apply to remote environments; it is much needed for a developer’s local instance as well. To overcome all these issues, Apache Sling Repository Initialization (otherwise known as Repo Init) comes very handy.

How Repo Init works?
Repo Init is a set of instructions/scripts which help us in creating JCR structures, service users and groups. There are no explicit permissions needed in order to run these scripts. These scripts are executed early in the deployment process so that all required configuration/content exist in the system before the code is executed.

This article is based and tested on AEM 6.5.5.0 with below bundle versions:
org.apache.sling.jcr.repoinit – 1.1.8
org.apache.sling.repoinit.parser – 1.2.2

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