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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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Analytics Cloud APIs
Official Documentation
Analytics Cloud APIs You can use headless APIs to interface with Analytics Cloud. Here are resources to help you understand and integrate these APIs to enhance your ability to manage content.
Resource Types and Structure
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Resource Types and Structure Properties activeIndividualsCount (Number): Number of active individuals belonging to the account. dateCreated (Date): Date the account was created in the system. ...
Authentication
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Authentication An access token is necessary for making API calls to Liferay Analytics Cloud. Navigate to Settings → APIs to generate an access token. Choose the duration (e.g. 30 days, 6 months, 1...
Connecting Liferay DXP 7.3 to Analytics Cloud
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Connecting Liferay DXP 7.3 to Analytics Cloud Liferay DXP 7.3 U30+ The steps to connect Liferay DXP 7.3 to Analytics Cloud differ slightly from the steps to connect Liferay DXP 7.4. Liferay DXP...
Reference
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Reference Multi-Factor Authentication Metrics Description Downloading Reports
Definitions
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Definitions There are four types of definitions: Individuals: attributes of individuals accessing your site Events: default and custom actions that happen on your site Event Attributes:...
Managing API Access
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Managing API Access Liferay Analytics Cloud supports access to its analytics data via a set of API endpoints. You can access and integrate the data either through RESTful APIs or data export. Some...
Workspace Settings
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Workspace Settings In settings, view and manage your Analytics Cloud workspace. Click the settings link at the bottom left of the UI. Invite other users and manage access to the workspace. View...
Workspace Data
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Workspace Data In settings view, and manage the data sources that sync with Analytics Cloud. Click the settings link at the bottom left of the UI. Manage API access by creating or revoking access...
Troubleshooting
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Troubleshooting Troubleshooting Analytics Cloud Activation Troubleshooting Data Sources
Managing Workspaces
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Managing Workspaces You can view and change your workspace settings from the settings page. Navigate to Settings → Workspace Settings → Workspace. Workspace Name: The name of your analytics...
Configuring Externally Managed Services
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Configuring Externally Managed Services Externally managed services are created, configured, and managed outside the Liferay Helm chart. Database Configuring an external database for Liferay in...
Reference
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Reference
Liferay Helm Values Reference
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Liferay Helm Values Reference Helm is configured in YAML. Below are descriptions of the Liferay default Helm chart values. affinity: {} # Set Liferay DXP StatefulSet spec...
Adding a New Environment
Official Documentation
Adding a New Environment Liferay Cloud projects are provisioned with multiple environments to fit the needs of most users. If your application requires an additional environment, you can request...
Team Activities
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Team Activities Keeping track of activities within each project environment is essential. With Liferay Cloud, you can monitor builds, deployments, and other project activities via the web console. ...
Support and Troubleshooting
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Support and Troubleshooting Troubleshooting Troubleshooting Tools and Resources Reading Liferay Cloud Service Logs Shell Access Troubleshooting Services Disaster Recovery Overview ...
Customizing Liferay DXP in the Cloud
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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...
Liferay Cloud Data Center Locations
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Liferay Cloud Data Center Locations Liferay Cloud has a variety of available, regional data centers around the world to host customer environments. Liferay SaaS Data Centers These data centers are...
Development Requirements
Official Documentation
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...
Configuring the Cloud Network
Official Documentation
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...
Example Configuration Files
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Example Configuration Files Different services in Liferay Cloud (such as the search and web server services) use configuration files to perform what you might be used to handling differently in an...
Default Provisioning for PaaS Environments
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Default Provisioning for PaaS Environments Liferay PaaS provides preconfigured infrastructure templates to meet the varying needs of development, testing, and production environments. Liferay Cloud...
Stage 5: Migrating Web Server Configurations
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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...
Information Security and Liferay Cloud
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Information Security and Liferay Cloud Liferay takes security on the cloud very seriously and has published the following documents on our compliance with the SOC 2 and ISO 27001:2013 standards: ...
Liferay Cloud Platform Status
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Liferay Cloud Platform Status The Liferay Cloud Platform is comprised of multiple systems. Users can view the status of Liferay Cloud Platform systems, incident history, and planned maintenance...
Ignoring Files and Folders
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Ignoring Files and Folders Liferay Cloud allows subscribers to determine which files and folders should be ignored before deploying a service. This is done by creating a .lcpignore file and placed...
Configuring a VPN Server
Official Documentation
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...
Cloud
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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...
VPN Integration Overview
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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...
Private Network
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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...
Setting Up Clustering in Liferay Cloud
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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...
Deploying to the Liferay Service
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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,...
Configuring Your GitHub Repository
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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...
Updating Your DXP Instance to a New Minor Version
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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...
Configuring Your Azure Repository
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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...
Upgrading Your Liferay DXP Instance
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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...
Getting Started
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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...
Liferay PaaS Go-Live Checklist
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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...
Environment Teams and Roles
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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...
Configuring Your GitLab Repository
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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...
Application Metrics
Official Documentation
Application Metrics With Liferay Cloud's built-in monitoring, you can track resources used by each environment service. These application metrics include memory and CPU usage, as well as network...
Understanding Liferay Cloud Environments
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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...
Quotas and Resource Usage
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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...
Logging into Your Liferay Cloud Services
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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)....
Manage and Optimize
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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...
Migrating to Liferay Cloud
Official Documentation
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...
Real-Time Alerts
Official Documentation
Real-Time Alerts Liferay Cloud can alert system administrators of unexpected behaviors in a project. Examples of unexpected behaviors include auto-scaling events, higher than expected memory...
Stage 7: Connecting the VPN
Official Documentation
Stage 7: Connecting the VPN If required for your development environment, the last stage of migration is to connect your Cloud environment to your private network. This involves configuring (or...
Scaling the Liferay Service
Official Documentation
Scaling the Liferay Service Liferay Cloud's auto-scaling feature automatically creates and destroys Liferay service instances as needed to optimize performance. You can choose the minimum and...
Stage 2: Creating Data Backup Files
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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 4: Migrating DXP Configurations and Customizations
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Stage 4: Migrating DXP Configurations and Customizations Now that your database and document library are applied to your Liferay Cloud environment, the next stage of migration is to migrate your...
Stage 3: Uploading and Restoring the Data Backup
Official Documentation
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
Official Documentation
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...
Stage 8: Next Steps After Migration
Official Documentation
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...
Platform Services
Official Documentation
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...
Stage 6: Migrating Search Configurations
Official Documentation
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...
Continuous Integration
Official Documentation
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...
Backup Service
Official Documentation
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...
Database Service
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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...