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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...

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...

Configuring Liferay PaaS for Client Extensions

Configuring Liferay PaaS for Client Extensions Beta Feature Client extensions are the ideal way to deploy various customizations and changes to Liferay DXP in cloud environments. Here are some...

Deploying Microservice Client Extensions to Liferay PaaS

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Deploying Microservice Client Extensions to Liferay PaaS In most cases, you can deploy client extensions with Liferay PaaS similarly to self-hosted instances. Deploy frontend, configuration, and...

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

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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)....

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...

Platform Services

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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...

Downloading and Uploading Backups

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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...

Continuous Integration

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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...

Stage 8: Next Steps After Migration

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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 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...

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...

Creating a Database Dump

Creating a Database Dump Uploading a backup to Liferay Cloud's backup service requires a snapshot comprised of two compressed files, containing the document library and database dump, respectively....

Restoring Data from a Backup

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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...

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...

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...

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