In this case study, Arton Agroni walks through how he designed and tested Flexible Environments for Umbraco Cloud while at Umbraco HQ. He covers the environment model, user flows, prototyping and user testing, and compares the tested prototype with the released feature.
Umbraco India User Group: At Umbraco India Festival 2026, Farshadudheen K and Ansar M describe unifying multiple CMSs (Kentico, WordPress, Webflow) into Umbraco, highlighting community origins, migration challenges (data/media/export issues), custom import tools, block previews, custom indexes, integrations, editor training, and lessons on validation, consolidation, and editor confidence.
Umbraco HQ's webinar explores the evolution of Umbraco Cloud, focusing on its benefits for agencies managing multiple client projects. Key discussions include partner insights, product updates, and aligning client needs with cloud tiers. Upcoming features aim to enhance user experience, while feedback from partners is encouraged for ongoing improvements.
Compare content between Umbraco Cloud environments from the backoffice before every deployment.
Justin Neville's guide details the process of upgrading an Umbraco 13 site to Umbraco 17 on Umbraco Cloud. By migrating locally and deploying to a new Cloud project, the approach minimizes downtime and risks to the live site, ensuring a smooth transition while addressing legacy data types and maintaining content integrity.
In the talk "Running Umbraco in a Changing World," Bjarke Berg discusses the evolving landscape of Umbraco Cloud, highlighting recent developments and future directions. Key themes include the necessity of self-service, enhanced security measures, performance optimization, and operational best practices. The session emphasizes the importance of adapting to increased automated traffic and outlines upcoming features, including artifact deployments and multi-cloud capabilities.
Arnold Visser discusses recent updates in Umbraco Cloud that enhance long-term project management for agencies. New features include Traffic and Performance Insights, Hostname Monitoring, Custom Error Pages, and improved security measures. These updates aim to support scalability, stability, and client confidence, with more developments expected at Codegarden 2026.
Owain.Codes shares a solution to speed up Umbraco Cloud deployments, which were taking 20 minutes. By pushing changes to a private GitHub repository and adjusting the project file to set CompressionEnabled to false, deployment times improved to 6 minutes. He advises against pushing directly to Cloud.
Søren Kottal developed a Kudu Umbraco Log Viewer to enhance log accessibility for Umbraco Cloud users. It allows users to easily navigate and parse structured JSON logs, even when the site is down. The viewer includes features like file sorting, expandable entries, expression search, and a momentum graph for error tracking.
Søren Kottal discusses the creation of two CLI tools, umbraco-cloud-fetch-database and umbraco-cloud-fetch-media, designed to quickly refresh local Umbraco development environments with data from Umbraco Cloud. These tools streamline the process of downloading databases and media, complementing Umbraco Deploy, which remains the primary method for syncing content.
Søren Kottal discusses the development of umbraco-cloud-archiver, a CLI tool created by skttl to automate the archiving process of Umbraco Cloud projects during upgrades. It simplifies backing up Git repositories, media blobs, and databases, ensuring a comprehensive project snapshot for future reference. The tool is user-friendly, requiring minimal setup.
Paul Seal discusses how to bypass Umbraco Cloud's Basic Authentication for specific preview URLs using a shared secret feature and lightweight ASP.NET middleware. This solution allows sharing unpublished content previews without compromising the security of the staging site, ensuring that only designated paths are accessible while maintaining overall protection.
Umbraco HQ utilizes Umbraco Cloud for approximately 95% of their clients, enabling rapid site deployment and reducing project time and costs. This stable hosting solution allows developers to focus on client-specific needs rather than server maintenance, often leading to better outcomes compared to self-supported solutions.
Søren Kottal discusses enhancing the Kudu interface for Umbraco Cloud with two userscripts: the Kudu Event Log Viewer and the Deployment Viewer. These scripts improve event log visualization and deployment tracking, making it easier to diagnose issues and monitor deployments. Both userscripts are available on GitHub for user installation.
Simon Antony discusses the challenge of maintaining context between Claude Code and Claude Desktop for Umbraco Cloud projects. He proposes using a self-updating CLAUDE.md file to capture essential project details and suggests creating a custom slash command to automate updates. This method helps preserve institutional knowledge until native integration is developed.
A package for adding Umbraco Cloud health checks
Simon Antony discusses automating notifications for Umbraco Cloud updates via Slack to quickly address potential site issues. The process involves setting up an n8n workflow with webhooks to receive updates on live or dev site changes. Customization options for Slack messages are also available through the code block in n8n.
At Umbraco DevRel Towers, the team is developing a new community website to enhance user contributions while ensuring sensitive data remains secure. They propose a workflow utilizing Umbraco Cloud and GitHub Actions for deployment, inviting community feedback on the contribution process and offering guidance for setting up local repositories without sensitive information.