Introducing Liferay Cloud Services

[Juan Fernández, modifié il y a 9 années.]

Dear community!
As some of you already know, we have recently launched Liferay Cloud Services Beta (more info here: https://www.liferay.com/cloud-services). We are really excited about this new project and we think you'll love it too!

We are opening this forum section for you to share your experiences and feedback (good or bad), as a place where you can discuss about new features you'd like to see in the project, issues found, etc

Here's a link to the official documentation: Managing Liferay with Liferay Cloud Services

Please feel free to contact us: we'll be more than happy to help you!
Enjoy!

[David H Nebinger, modifié il y a 9 années.]

What I don't understand is why these are cloud-only services...

These same functions would be great to have as cluster services too (along with cloud/cluster deployment rather than individual node deployments)...

[Juan Fernández, modifié il y a 9 années.]

Hi David:
I am not sure I understand your comment. This works on all installations: single node, clustered environments and cloud based installations.
It is a cloud-based service for both cloud-based and on-premise projects.
Is it clearer now?
Thanks for the feedback!
J

[David H Nebinger, modifié il y a 9 années.]

Ah, services are hosted in the cloud, not services for Liferay in the cloud, I get it (although the name is confusing).

So one requirement is that the cloud must be able to access your Liferay node(s) individually? Are there details about firewall holes, etc., and how to admin to allow the cloud in but not just anyone?

[Juan Fernández, modifié il y a 9 années.]

Hi David:
The way Cloud Services works is similar to how Portal communicates with Marketplace. Your portal connects TO the cloud services, not the other way around, so there's not problem with the firewall. It is all outbound communication.

Apart from that, communications are secured (https connection).

We created a FAQ section in this page (https://www.liferay.com/cloud-services) trying to answer questions like yours, but if you have more questions, feel free to ask them

Looking forward for your feedback
Best,
Juan

[David H Nebinger, modifié il y a 9 années.]

Are you going to be implementing plugin deployments? It would be great if, like the fix packs, we could push a plugin to all nodes in the cluster at one time rather than piecemeal them out...

[Juan Fernández, modifié il y a 9 années.]

Hi David:
that feature was not in our plans, but it's interesting feedback! That'd be one of the benefits of having an external central point of access to manage your systems.
I'll add it to our ideas management system.
Thanks a lot for sharing your ideas!
Juan

[Michael C. Han, modifié il y a 8 années.]

Deployment management is currently out of scope for LCS. These are things
we may pursue as part of the core platform.



That said, the standard JEE deployment managers can be leveraged for these
facilities, especially if you preprocess the WAR files and thus bypass the
Liferay AutoDeployer.