Service Updates for Liferay Cloud

The services update for 08/01/2023 is a minor update for Backup service.

DXP Cloud Stack - 08/01/2023

Service Name	Previous Release	Current Release	Docker Images
BACKUP	5.8.0	5.9.0	liferaycloud/backup:5.9.0
CI	5.0.3	5.0.4	liferaycloud/jenkins:2.356-jdk8-5.0.4
Database	5.1.2	5.1.3	liferaycloud/database:5.1.3
Liferay	5.2.0	5.2.1	liferaycloud/liferay-dxp:7.4-5.2.1 liferaycloud/liferay-dxp:7.3-5.2.1 liferaycloud/liferay-dxp:7.2-5.2.1 liferaycloud/liferay-dxp:7.1-5.2.1 liferaycloud/liferay-dxp:7.0-5.2.1
Search	5.1.0	5.1.1	liferaycloud/elasticsearch:7.17.9-5.1.1 liferaycloud/elasticsearch:6.8.23-5.1.1
Webserver	5.2.0	5.3.0	liferaycloud/nginx:1.21.6-5.3.0

Change Log

Service Name	Service Version	Ticket No.	Description
Backup	5.9.0	LCD-28501	Feature: Set PREPARE_AND_SWAP as default Restore Strategy*
		LCD-25718	Fix: Backup Integration test child projects not being deleted
		LCD-28490	Fix: [Google Cloud Storage] Backup creation fails if no file exists

Update Instructions

Note* : After this release, any new customers being provisioned will default to use PREPARE_AND_SWAP Restore strategy, i.e,

LCP_BACKUP_RESTORE_STRATEGYwill default to PREPARE_AND_SWAP

Additionally, if an existing customer, does not have any value set for this environment variable: LCP_BACKUP_RESTORE_STRATEGY, it will auto set it to PREPARE_AND_SWAP

We highly encourage all customers using the old less efficient OVERRIDE strategy to switch to PREPARE_AND_SWAP. As more and more customers move to using PREPARE_AND_SWAP , we will ultimately retire the old OVERRIDE strategy in future releases.

Note : To take advantage of the new features and fixes provided by the 5.x stack of services, you must update your entire stack to the new 5.x images.

Note : All Features marked [Google Cloud Storage] or [GCS] are part of a bigger future demand that is being currently worked on. These features wont be available to customers until Google Cloud Storage Enablement will be rolled out in future releases.

Image Update Instructions

The Liferay Cloud image versions needs to be set inside of the <service>/LCP.json file.

Note, however, that the liferay service uses two image properties. The DXP Cloud image is set in the liferay/LCP.json file, but the liferay/dxp image is set in the gradle.properties. This change was made in order to facilitate easier deployment using the Liferay Cloud CLI.

liferay/LCP.json file would set the liferaycloud/liferay-dxp image:

"image":"liferaycloud/liferay-dxp:7.2-5.0.X"

liferay/gradle.properties file would set the liferay/dxp image:

liferay.workspace.docker.image.liferay=liferay/dxp:7.4-x

For all other images, you will just need to update the LCP.json file with the intended image version.

Once the LCP.json files are updated, commit the changes to your Git repository.

git add . && git commit -m "Update dxp cloud stack to XXX"

After pushing these changes to the remote repository, a build will be created in Liferay Cloud and it is ready to deploy.