DX Cloud Operations

This guide is the hands-on operations handbook for running Magnolia on DX Cloud. Use it when you are standing up a project, shipping changes through CI/CD, tuning Helm and cluster configuration, hardening security and CDN, or diagnosing alerts and runtime issues in the Cockpit and on the cluster.

Start here

01
Set up
Prerequisites, Maven archetype, and first project wiring → Set up DX Cloud
02
Deploy
Tooling, dry-run, pipeline, and values.yml → Deploy DX Cloud
03
CI/CD
Recommended build, integration, and deployment flow → GitLab CI/CD
04
Helm values
Author and public configuration you can safely change → Helm values

Configure and secure

SSO — Keycloak / IdP integration for DX Cloud access
Cache — CDN and Magnolia cache behaviour
WAF — Fastly WAF defaults, signals, and tuning
Automatic backups — backup and restore overview
JMX monitoring — JVM / Magnolia MBeans via port-forward

Develop

Set up DX Cloud — Maven archetype and project prerequisites
Light modules — orientation + link to product docs
Integrate with Node.js — SPA / frontend Ingress, Docker, and CI

Deploy further

Deploy DX Cloud — kubectl / Helm prerequisites and local dry-run
Webapp deployment — project layout and GitLab pipeline
Feature environments — temporary environments beyond dev / uat / prod
Light module deployment — DevSpace sync into running pods

When something goes wrong

Troubleshooting — alerts, general fixes, and Rancher helpers