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Cloud

Liferay Cloud Platform provides the infrastructure and tooling necessary to simplify, secure, and deliver applications on Liferay DXP when using the SaaS or PaaS deployment approaches. Using Liferay’s Cloud infrastructure provides a secure, reliable, and scalable platform for building Liferay solutions.

The Liferay Cloud Platform includes DevOps CI/CD tools, automated backups, real-time logs, and much more.

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Cloud
Cloud Liferay DXP is prepackaged with all the configurations you need to host your application on the cloud. For more information on installing cloud-ready Liferay bundles, see Provisioning Liferay...
Configuring the Cloud Network
Configuring the Cloud Network Every environment has its own private network, so services from the same environment can communicate through secure protocols without interacting with the public...
Configuring a VPN Server
Configuring a VPN Server The following scenario walks through how to set up an IPsec or OpenVPN VPN server. Once a VPN server is configured, a secure connection can be established between an...
Connecting a VPN Server to Liferay Cloud
Connecting a VPN Server to Liferay Cloud You can use Liferay Cloud's VPN feature to connect your Liferay Cloud services to external services on private networks, so you can operate an external...
Custom Domains
Custom Domains With Liferay Cloud, you can connect custom domains to environment services with a DNS provider. First, register your custom domain with your environment's Load Balancer IP address....
Load Balancer
Load Balancer The Ingress Load Balancer gives internet access to your environment's services via proxied HTTP(S) connections using TLS (1.2 or 1.3) protocol. Each load balancer has a static IP that...
Private Network
Private Network Every environment has its own private network. This lets services from the same environment communicate through multiple secure communication protocols without having to interact...
Customizing Liferay DXP in the Cloud
Customizing Liferay DXP in the Cloud Client extensions are the primary means of extending Liferay. Build your client extensions independently in your own workspace, then deploy them to any Liferay...
VPN Integration Overview
VPN Integration Overview Liferay Cloud provides a VPN client-to-site connection that has port forwarding and redundant tunnels support. This feature is commonly used to connect a subscriber's...
Using the Liferay DXP Service
Using the Liferay DXP Service The Liferay service is the heartbeat of any project in Liferay Cloud (SaaS or PaaS). It runs the application's Liferay DXP instance and interacts with other services...
Configuring the Liferay DXP Service
Configuring the Liferay DXP Service There are several methods available to configure DXP in Liferay PaaS: through the in DXP System Settings and through the use of config and property files. DXP...
Deploying to the Liferay Service
Deploying to the Liferay Service As with other services, deploying custom additions involves adding your configurations or files to the appropriate locations in your Git repository. However,...
Liferay Service Environment Variables
Liferay Service Environment Variables The Liferay service has a range of environment variables that are used to configure the service, its connection to other services, and the DXP installation...
Updating Your DXP Instance to a New Minor Version
Updating Your DXP Instance to a New Minor Version Regularly updating your Liferay DXP installation is an important part of maintaining your Liferay PaaS environment. Use the available tags on the...
Setting Up Clustering in Liferay Cloud
Setting Up Clustering in Liferay Cloud This article outlines the steps necessary to configure clustering for your Liferay DXP instance in Liferay PaaS. Contents: Enable the Clustering...
Upgrading Your Liferay DXP Instance
Upgrading Your Liferay DXP Instance Every three months, Liferay releases a new quarterly release version of Liferay DXP that includes security and bug fixes, as well as enhancements. To upgrade to...
Configuring Your Azure Repository
Configuring Your Azure Repository Your Liferay Cloud onboarding email contains a link to a GitHub repository hosted in the dxpcloud organization. This repository is a template for a team's private...
Getting Started
Getting Started Getting started with Liferay Cloud (SaaS or PaaS) involves ensuring all accounts, environments, and services have been successfully provisioned and deployed in your instance. Begin...
Configuring Your Bitbucket Repository
Configuring Your Bitbucket Repository Your Liferay Cloud onboarding email contains a link to a GitHub repository hosted in the dxpcloud organization. This repository is a template for a team's...
Configuring Your GitHub Repository
Configuring Your GitHub Repository Your Liferay Cloud onboarding email contains a link to a GitHub repository hosted in the dxpcloud organization. This repository is a template for a team's...
Configuring Your GitLab Repository
Configuring Your GitLab Repository Your Liferay Cloud onboarding email contains a link to a GitHub repository hosted in the dxpcloud organization. This repository is a template for a team's private...
Development Requirements
Development Requirements Before beginning deployment in Liferay PaaS, developers planning to create modules should install the required tools. There are various development tools and frameworks...
Liferay PaaS Go-Live Checklist
Liferay PaaS Go-Live Checklist Liferay Cloud is committed to your project's smooth launch. This go-live checklist should help you catch potential issues in advance and optimize your Cloud...
Liferay SaaS Go-Live Checklist
Liferay SaaS Go-Live Checklist Liferay Cloud is committed to your project's smooth launch. Here is a list of steps you should take to prepare in advance for your production environment to go live. ...
Logging into Your Liferay Cloud Services
Logging into Your Liferay Cloud Services By default, you must log in to access the web interfaces for the Liferay and Infrastructure services on any non-production environment (e.g., uat)....
Backup Service
Backup Service Maintaining regular backups is vital to protecting your project's data. The Liferay Cloud backup service stores iterations of environment data that can be used to restore your...
Platform Services
Platform Services In Liferay Cloud, the processes necessary to host and maintain a site are run by platform services. Each service corresponds to a part of what is necessary to keep your...
Continuous Integration
Continuous Integration Liferay Cloud uses Jenkins to power its continuous integration infrastructure service. When you send a pull request or push a commit to one of your pre-configured GitHub...
Stage 8: Next Steps After Migration
Stage 8: Next Steps After Migration Congratulations! If you have completed all of the previous stages in this section, then you have successfully migrated your on-premises Liferay DXP installation...
Stage 5: Migrating Web Server Configurations
Stage 5: Migrating Web Server Configurations Now that your Liferay configurations and customizations are deployed to Liferay Cloud, the next stage is to migrate your web server configurations. This...
Stage 3: Uploading and Restoring the Data Backup
Stage 3: Uploading and Restoring the Data Backup With your Liferay DXP database and document library in a compatible format, the next stage is to upload them together as a single backup to Liferay...
Restoring Data from a Backup
Restoring Data from a Backup During project development, there may be times when you must restore data or roll back the project to an earlier state. Restoring a backup to an environment restores...
Database Service
Database Service The database service is a proxy in Liferay Cloud to the Cloud SQL service in the Google Cloud Platform where the database itself resides. The database service provides tools for...
Manage and Optimize
Manage and Optimize Liferay Cloud offers numerous tools to help you efficiently manage your projects. Resource Management The Liferay Cloud dashboard has built-in tools to help you track and...
Quotas and Resource Usage
Quotas and Resource Usage Quotas are the maximum number of resources available for a given Liferay Cloud project. Administrators may configure services and environments to use resources according...
Migrating to Liferay Cloud
Migrating to Liferay Cloud Liferay Cloud is a secure and reliable enterprise platform built for high availability, scalability, and performance. Running a Liferay DXP instance on Liferay Cloud...
Stage 2: Creating Data Backup Files
Stage 2: Creating Data Backup Files Now that the Liferay versions match between your on-premises and Liferay Cloud environments, you must prepare the data from your installation for migration. This...
Stage 6: Migrating Search Configurations
Stage 6: Migrating Search Configurations Now that your web server configurations are deployed to Liferay Cloud, the next stage of migration is to migrate your search configurations. This involves...
Environment Teams and Roles
Environment Teams and Roles Administrators can manage team members and roles in each project environment using the Liferay Cloud Console. Each environment can have unique members, and each member...
Understanding Liferay Cloud Environments
Understanding Liferay Cloud Environments A Liferay Cloud project can have multiple environments, each for a different purpose (e.g., development, staging, production, etc.). Each environment has a...