Liferay Cloud Services Open Beta

UPDATE: Liferay Cloud Services has a new name! See this blog post for details on Liferay Connected Services!

Today Liferay Cloud Services enters a new phase of its beta program - and now invites all of our community to participate in the Liferay Cloud Services Beta. If you'd like to try it out (and promise to give your feedback!), visit liferay.com/cloud-services and click "Get Started" to sign up (it's super easy!), install the agent on one or more servers, and see what LCS can do for you.

What is Liferay Cloud Services?

Liferay Cloud Services is a new online platform that offers tools and services that will help our customers suceed on Liferay projects. Specifically, LCS allows you to set up projects that represent your Liferay deployment(s), add and manage users and their roles, manage fix packs on EE, and monitor your Liferay deployment's health via metrics dashboards. The best part: we can easily add new services without impacting existing services. It's all on the cloud!

What's New

Since launching the first LCS limited beta, the team has been busy listening to your feedback and making several improvements including:

  • Show each individual portlet load time
  • Ability to sort pages and portlets by average load time to easily find the slowest ones
  • Ability to download all available fix packs with a single click
  • Ability to configure/modify proxy connection settings
  • More robust client and better error management
  • Ability to invite (and reject) users to your projects
  • Ability to update project names
  • Fixed many issues reported by our awesome beta testers

Compatibility

Liferay Cloud Services is compatible with Liferay Portal 6.2 CE+EE and 6.1 GA3 CE+EE. It also works with on-premesis or cloud deployments, so we can target the maximum number of kinds of deployments.

Providing Feedback

Joining the beta program and providing feedback is the best way to steer the product direction to best suit your needs. The LCS team values all feedback, and it's easy to give: just click on "Feedback" within the dashboard. Easy!

What's Next

Currently LCS offers health services: per-portlet statistics, JVM analytics, and patch management. The team is investigating adding more services based on customer and community feedback! So get involved in the Beta today and see what it can do for your Liferay deployments and let us know what you want to see using the Feedback link! Just visit the landing page and click "Get Started"!

 

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Thanks James! Is the goal of LCS to eventually provide additional APM services? Do you have any stats at this time on how this would affect the performance in deployments where there are other APM products in use?
I see LCS as complimentary to the standard APM solutions - rather focussed on the Liferay-side of operations. We couldn't rebuild their whole solution, but can add more value on top in areas that they don't cover (portlet load times, fixpacks, etc).

I'm currently postprocessing a (first) episode on APM on Radio Liferay, due out shortly, you might want to keep an eye on it (see also: https://www.liferay.com/radio)