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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...

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...

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...

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 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 6: Migrating Search Configurations

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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

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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...

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...

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...

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. ...

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 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...

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...

Optimizing Resources with Environment Auto-Pause

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Optimizing Resources with Environment Auto-Pause The Cloud platform monitors environment activity to detect idle periods. During inactivity, it scales down non-production environments (i.e, UAT and...

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...

Changing Your Database Username

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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...

Changing Your Database Password

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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...

Using the Database Client

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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...

Search Service (Elasticsearch)

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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

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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...

Command-Line Tool

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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...

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...

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...

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Breaking Changes

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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...

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...

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...

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...

Liferay Cloud Version 5 Changes

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Liferay Cloud Version 5 Changes Liferay Cloud version 5 comes with several changes and new features: ModSecurity Capabilities with Nginx Improved Regional Persistence Prepare and Swap Backup...

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...

Understanding Service Stack Versions

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Understanding Service Stack Versions The Liferay Cloud service stack represents the major version of all of the services in your Liferay Cloud environment. Each individual service may have a...

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,...

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 Support

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Liferay Cloud Support Liferay is committed to providing excellent service and customer experience. Liferay Cloud customers have several means to contact support, including opening a Support ticket...

Liferay Cloud Maintenance and Release Schedule

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Liferay Cloud Maintenance and Release Schedule Liferay SaaS and PaaS both have a weekly maintenance and release schedule. Liferay Cloud uses a transparent and predictable release cadence so you can...

Liferay Cloud Support FAQs

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Enabling Glowroot on PaaS

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Enabling Glowroot on PaaS Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA100+ Glowroot is included with Liferay in the /opt/liferay/glowroot folder. Glowroot stores profiling and transaction data on the...

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...

Tuning Security Settings

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Tuning Security Settings Here are a list of best practices for tightening and maintaining your Liferay PaaS project's security, including networking practices, data security, and general security...

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...

Web Application Firewall

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Web Application Firewall Liferay Cloud 5.x.x Liferay Cloud includes a web application firewall called ModSecurity. It inspects requests sent to the web server against a predefined set of custom...

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...

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...

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...

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.,...

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...

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...

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