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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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Cloud
Official Documentation
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
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...
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...
Using the Liferay DXP Service
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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
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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
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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,...
Liferay Service Environment Variables
Official Documentation
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Configuring Your Bitbucket Repository
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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
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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...
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...
Liferay PaaS Go-Live Checklist
Official Documentation
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...
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...
Liferay SaaS Go-Live Checklist
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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
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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)....
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...
Scaling the Liferay Service
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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...
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. ...
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...
Application Metrics
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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...
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...
Real-Time Alerts
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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...
Migrating to Liferay Cloud
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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 7: Connecting the VPN
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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...
Stage 2: Creating Data Backup Files
Official Documentation
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 1: Matching DXP Versions
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Stage 1: Matching DXP Versions The first stage of migration is to configure the Liferay service running on Liferay Cloud to run the same version of the installation you want to migrate. This...
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...
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 5: Migrating Web Server Configurations
Official Documentation
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 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...
Stage 3: Uploading and Restoring the Data Backup
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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...
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...
Analytics Cloud APIs
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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.
Exporting Data
Official Documentation
Exporting Data Various analytics data can be accessed through the sites dashboard and the individuals dashboard. Analytics data can also be fetched and exported using Analytics Cloud's APIs....
Querying Data
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Querying Data The root endpoint of Liferay Analytics Cloud is . You can get the list of all data types endpoints by requesting a GET to the above URL. Try with curl curl -i -L -H "Authorization:...
Resource Types and Structure
Official Documentation
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. ...
Backup Service
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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...
Changing Your Database Password
Official Documentation
Changing Your Database Password Changing the database password for your database service also affects the other services that must connect to the database. Updating your database password...
Breaking Changes
Official Documentation
Breaking Changes Breaking changes in the Cloud platform are changes that break or alter existing functionality of the platform's console, services, or infrastructure. These changes can impact the...
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...
Command-Line Tool
Official Documentation
Command-Line Tool The CLI tool can be used to view and manage your Liferay Cloud services. Once installed, you can run lcp --help in your terminal to view available actions. You can run the -v or...
Configuration via LCP.json
Official Documentation
Configuration via LCP.json Each service in your Liferay Cloud environments has an LCP.json file that you can use to configure the service. You can configure properties like the service ID, memory,...
Default Provisioning for PaaS Environments
Official Documentation
Default Provisioning for PaaS Environments Liferay PaaS provides preconfigured infrastructure templates to meet the varying needs of development, testing, and production environments. Liferay Cloud...
Defining Environment Variables
Official Documentation
Defining Environment Variables Environment variables are a set of dynamic placeholders that can affect the way a service behaves within an environment. You can define environment variables via the...
Search Service (Elasticsearch)
Official Documentation
Search Service (Elasticsearch) The Elasticsearch service is the text search engine for your Liferay DXP application. It's a private service that only communicates with the other services in your...
Using a Custom Service
Official Documentation
Using a Custom Service In Liferay Cloud, you are not limited to the standard set of services provided out-of-the-box. You can also create and deploy a custom service to run any new processes within...
Web Server Service (Nginx)
Official Documentation
Web Server Service (Nginx) The Nginx web server functions as a gateway from the open internet to your Liferay Cloud services. It handles all traffic from your users and acts as a high-performance...
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