Developing for Magnolia in the cloud

This page gives an overview of the complete Magnolia development cycle:

Standard Cloud bundle development workflow

Local development

Creating new features and functions in your Magnolia package starts with local development. After cloning the remote Git repository linked to your Magnolia subscription package, you install a Magnolia local development bundle on your machine. This is where you develop new features before sending them to the cloud via the Git repository.  

Have a look at the prerequisites below before you get started.

Working in Magnolia

After developing locally and pushing your work to the Magnolia Git repository, log in to the cockpit to retrieve your work.  As well as providing an overview of your package's status, the cockpit is the starting point for all the actions you can do in Magnolia in the cloud:

• Install updates using Magnolia - Create development snapshots and releases to deploy and test new features through the different environments in Magnolia before making your site available to your customers.
• Manage environments in Magnolia - Create and manage the environments and running instances of Magnolia in the cloud.

Prerequisites 

Java 

Java 1.8 or higher is required to run the Magnolia local development bundle.  If you do not know whether you have Java installed or which version you have, please read get Java.

Git

Git is required to develop for Magnolia in the cloud. You need:

• Git client software
• Basic Git knowledge

See Setting up a local Git repository to get started with your standard bundle development workflow.

my-mgnl-cloud-webapp/
├── pom.xml
└── src
    └── main
        └── webapp
            └── WEB-INF
                └── config
                    └── dev
                    │   └── README.md
                    │   └── magnolia.properties
                    └── shared
                        └── README.md
                        └── magnolia.properties

Hands-on learning

Try out our end-to-end Hello-cloud development tutorial, in which you set up a light module and deploy it in Magnolia.