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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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

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 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

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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)....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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: ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. If you're running Liferay in a clustered environment, enable...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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