Integrating Liferay PaaS with OpenOffice/LibreOffice

Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM).

Issue

• Sometimes, it is necessary to generate previews for "office" files such as doc, docx, xls, etc. To accomplish this, it is necessary to integrate Liferay with OpenOffice/ LibreOffice.
• How can this integration be achieved within Liferay PaaS projects?

Environment

• Liferay PaaS

Resolution

• To integrate LibreOffice with Liferay PaaS it is recommended to create a new custom service:

• Here's an example of LCP.json for a new service:

{
 "id": "libreoffice",
 "image": "[your_trusted_image]/libreoffice-api",
 "cpu": 1,
 "memory": 512,
 "scale": 1,
 "kind": "Deployment",
 "dependencies": [],
 "readinessProbe": {
 "timeoutSeconds": 5,
 "tcpSocket": {
 "port": 8100
 },
 "initialDelaySeconds": 20,
 "failureThreshold": 5
 },
 "livenessProbe": {
 "timeoutSeconds": 10,
 "tcpSocket": {
 "port": 8100
 },
 "initialDelaySeconds": 60,
 "failureThreshold": 3
 },
 "loadBalancer": {
 "defaultBackend": false,
 "cdn": false,
 "customDomains": []
 },
 "ports": [
 {
 "protocol": "TCP",
 "port": 8100,
 "targetPort": 8100,
 "external": false
 }
 ]
}

Additional Information

• OpenOffice/LibreOffice Configuration