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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...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Upgrading Your Liferay DXP Instance

Upgrading Your Liferay DXP Instance Liferay periodically releases new minor and major versions of Liferay DXP that include security and bug fixes, as well as enhancements. To upgrade to a new major...

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Using the Database Client

Using the Database Client Viewing data in the database is sometimes necessary to troubleshoot an issue with your application or for custom development. In order to access the database, you must use...

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Getting Started

Getting Started Liferay Cloud is a secure and reliable enterprise cloud platform that provides the infrastructure and tooling necessary to simplify, secure, and deliver amazing applications on...

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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...

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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...

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Initial Setup Overview

Initial Setup Overview Getting started with Liferay Cloud (SaaS or PaaS) involves ensuring all accounts, environments, and services have been successfully provisioned and deployed in your instance....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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. ...

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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)....

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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...

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Liferay Cloud

Liferay Cloud :::: 2 :gutter: 3 3 3 3 ::: Getting Started :link: ./getting-started.md Introduction to Liferay Cloud Development Requirements Configuring Your GitHub Repository ::: ::: Platform...

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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...

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Scaling the Liferay Service

Scaling the Liferay Service Liferay Cloud offers two modes of scaling. The auto-scaling feature automatically creates and destroys instances of the Liferay service as needed to optimize...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Application Metrics

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...

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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...

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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...

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Real-Time Alerts

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...

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Team Activities

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. ...

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Stage 7: Connecting the VPN

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...

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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...

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Stage 1: Matching DXP Versions

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...

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Stage 4: Migrating DXP Configurations and Customizations

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Downloading and Uploading Backups

Downloading and Uploading Backups The Liferay Cloud backup service creates backups of an environment's database and the full contents of the Liferay instance's LIFERAY_HOME/data folder. This...

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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...

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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...

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Search Service (Elasticsearch)

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...

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Changing Your Database Password

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...

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Changing Your Database Username

Changing Your Database Username The database username is defined by the lcp-secret-database-user secret and can be changed at any time. When this value is changed, a user with the new credentials...

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Using a Custom Service

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...

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Web Server Service (Nginx)

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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Command-Line Tool

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...

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Liferay Cloud Data Center Locations

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...

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Liferay Cloud Infrastructure

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...

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Liferay SaaS Compatibility Matrix

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...

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Upgrading to a High Availability Subscription

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,...

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Breaking Changes

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...

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Configuration via LCP.json

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,...

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