Today we are announcing an open Beta of Liferay Cloud Services! If you're interested in participating, check out the landing page - you won't be able to miss the big form on the right (there are only 50 slots left - hurry!).

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."  That sounds great, right? So, for example, you have 10 Liferay servers in your farm - do you know if they are all up to date? Do you want to manually go through each one and update them? What if one is running low on memory - wouldn't it be great to get an alert on your mobile and correcting the issue instead of receiving an angry customer call an hour or two later?

LIferay Cloud Services will do all that - and more! The more: Fix Pack Management, Metrics, Dashboards, and Alerts. I won't ruin the surprise here, so please check out the Beta landing page to see more information about these. The best part is we can easily add new services without impacting existing services. It's all on the cloud!

Availability

Liferay Cloud Services will be available for systems running on 6.1 CE/EE GA3 or later (and of course 6.2 CE/EE GA1 or later). And yes, my community brothers and sisters, it is also available for Liferay CE (although limited, still very useful, otherwise I wouldn't be blogging about it here!) It also works with on-premesis or cloud deployments, so we can target the maximum number of kinds of deployments.

Beta Program

This beta program is intended find issues (what??), and get real feedback from real customers using it in an as-close-to-real-as-possible way. It also gives our community a way to interact directly with the product team(s) at Liferay, before it is finally launched. We learn a lot about our products from you, we rely on you to tell us what to fix, what to improve upon, and how to best meet your goals. In short, we cannot be successful without you, so we really need your help! The beta is a great way to do this, so I highly recommend you sign up. There are only 50 spots total, if you're interested, you should move quickly!

What's Next

The good news: it's a cloud-based service, and the team is looking at a range of new features to offer to you - not only health services, but also processing services (e.g. offline video transcoding), more analytics, and others. So get involved in the Beta today and see what it can do for your Liferay deployments!