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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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Liferay Cloud Infrastructure
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Liferay Cloud Infrastructure Liferay Cloud is a flexible platform that combines a collection of key components to provide a robust, reliable, and manageable Liferay DXP implementation. This diagram...
Configuration via LCP.json
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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,...
Defining Environment Variables
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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...
Upgrading to a High Availability Subscription
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Upgrading to a High Availability Subscription In many cases, the standard subscription plan for Liferay Cloud is sufficient to ensure quality performance for a live project. As your needs change,...
Troubleshooting Tools and Resources
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Troubleshooting Tools and Resources When you have an issue with your site, you need tools to diagnose and resolve technical issues quickly. Liferay Cloud provides you with tools and resources for...
Configuring Cross-Region Disaster Recovery
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Configuring Cross-Region Disaster Recovery Liferay Cloud provides two ways for customers to take advantage of the Disaster Recovery (DR) procedure in the case of major incidents: Automatic Disaster...
Support Access
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Support Access Support Access is an optional setting that expedites troubleshooting by giving Liferay engineers direct access to a Liferay Cloud project environment. Liferay Cloud administrators...
Creating Thread and Heap Dumps
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Creating Thread and Heap Dumps When you are experiencing issues with your Liferay service's performance, you may need to take thread or heap dumps to help you or Liferay Cloud Support optimize your...
Maintenance and Downtime
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Maintenance and Downtime Sometimes, big changes in the underlying infrastructure of a project may cause downtime. When planning for these changes, you can enable maintenance mode to redirect...
Shell Access
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Shell Access The command-line tools in Liferay Cloud contribute to the developer's workflow by delivering speed, control, traceability, scripting, and automation capabilities. Shell access makes it...
Automatically Deploying CI Service Builds
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Automatically Deploying CI Service Builds With Liferay PaaS, you can use webhooks to automatically trigger Jenkins builds for changes pushed or merged to your project's Git repository (e.g.,...
Self-Healing
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Self-Healing The self-healing functionality of Liferay Cloud detects if a service or application has become unresponsive and automatically initiates procedures to recover the unresponsive service....
Updating Services in Liferay PaaS
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Updating Services in Liferay PaaS Liferay PaaS provides a robust framework for achieving a highly efficient Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) strategy. With Git and Jenkins...
Reading Liferay Cloud Service Logs
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Reading Liferay Cloud Service Logs Environment logs are crucial for diagnosing and resolving technical issues in a project. Liferay Cloud provides a variety of environment logs that users can...
Using SSO with Liferay Cloud
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Using SSO with Liferay Cloud Customers may use their SAML 2.0 compliant single sign-on Identity Providers to authenticate users with the Liferay Cloud platform. Here is the process to enable this...
Managing Secure Environment Variables with Secrets
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Managing Secure Environment Variables with Secrets Secrets allow you to securely store variables for any environment within Liferay Cloud. Whereas any user with permission to view your Liferay...
Configuring Persistent File Storage Volumes
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Configuring Persistent File Storage Volumes Administrators can configure the volumes for their services in Liferay PaaS depending on their deployment type (Deployment or StatefulSet). Volumes can...
Deploying Changes via the Liferay Cloud Console
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Deploying Changes via the Liferay Cloud Console This tutorial walks through the process of adding a portal property to the Liferay service, triggering a CI build with a pull request, and deploying...
Restarting Jenkins Stages
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Restarting Jenkins Stages The CI service can be configured to preserve Jenkins stashes. You can then use the stashes to restart specific stages in a Jenkins build. Preserving Jenkins Stashes Use...
Deploying Changes via the CLI Tool
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Deploying Changes via the CLI Tool With the CLI tool, you can directly deploy local project changes without triggering a Jenkins build or using the Liferay Cloud Console. This tutorial walks...
Understanding Deployment Types
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Understanding Deployment Types The deployment type of a service determines many different facets of how it functions, including performance, memory usage, and access to files or volumes. Liferay...
Understanding Deployment Strategies
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Understanding Deployment Strategies The deployment strategy of a service determines how new versions will be initialized. Liferay PaaS provides two deployment strategies for its services:...
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...
Development Requirements
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
Adding a New Environment
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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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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: ...
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...
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.
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. ...
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
Auto-Scaling in AWS
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Auto-Scaling in AWS Liferay's auto-scaling feature automatically creates and destroys replicas (nodes) in the Liferay cluster to optimize performance. You can choose the minimum and maximum number...
Using Marketplace Artifacts to Run Liferay in AWS
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Using Marketplace Artifacts to Run Liferay in AWS You can use AWS Marketplace artifacts to provision Liferay in AWS. Prerequisite Oras CLI (optional) Launch Liferay Set and export environment...
Using GovCloud to run Liferay in AWS
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Using GovCloud to run Liferay in AWS Government entities can use GovCloud to provision Liferay in AWS. Subscribe to Liferay DXP Visit the AWS Marketplace. In Discover Products, find Liferay...
Making Liferay Public in AWS
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Making Liferay Public in AWS Now that you have Liferay installed, all that's left is to make it publicly available and then configure HTTPS for secure communication. Install the nginx Ingress...
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...
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. ...
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...
Troubleshooting Services
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Troubleshooting Services Services are the core of a Liferay Cloud environment. This article covers troubleshooting techniques that can be used to investigate and address issues that may arise with...
Liferay Service Environment Variables
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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...
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...
Using a Custom Service
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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...
Liferay Cloud Support FAQs
Official Documentation
Liferay Cloud Support FAQs Here are the answers to common questions pertaining to Liferay Cloud Support. Why isn't Liferay Cloud open source? Liferay is an open-source company, with open-source...
Disaster Recovery Overview
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Disaster Recovery Overview Liferay Cloud offers two strategies for disaster recovery: Automatic and Cross-Region. Automatic Disaster Recovery Strategy Liferay Cloud performs automatic disaster...
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...
Liferay SaaS Compatibility Matrix
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Liferay SaaS Compatibility Matrix Liferay DXP is the heart of Liferay SaaS, but not every DXP feature applies to Liferay SaaS. Some DXP features are not compatible, and some must be achieved via...
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...
Running Liferay on any Kubernetes Cluster
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Running Liferay on any Kubernetes Cluster These instructions are purposefully generic. They install a cluster that works on any Kubernetes implementation, but additional work is needed to make that...
Liferay Cloud Native Provisioning
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Liferay Cloud Native Provisioning Liferay's cloud native experience is a Kubernetes-based Helm chart for portable deployment of Liferay instances to any cloud with a Kubernetes engine. This...
Configuring Internally Managed Services
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Configuring Internally Managed Services Internally managed services are configured and managed within the chart. These services are defined using the dependencies property: dependencies: : ...
Configuring Liferay in AWS
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Configuring Liferay in AWS Since Liferay installations hosted in AWS use Helm, you must configure and customize Liferay using the Helm CLI. You can write as many .yaml files as you need. To update...