In this blog, I will show you how we can create an Alibaba Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) by using Terraform. Introduction to Alibaba Cloud VPC A Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a secure, isolated private cloud hosted within a public cloud. VPC provision logically isolated sections of the public cloud in order to provide …
If you are reading this post it means you are in the right place for content about Alibaba Cloud. In this blog post, I will go through the Alibaba Cloud Serverless ecosystem. I am assuming you know what serverless means and what are the benefits, features and use cases. In case you are not familiar …
As you may know, Alibaba Cloud and Salesforce announced in 2019 a very important strategic partnership. With this agreement, Alibaba Cloud became the exclusive provider of the Salesforce CRM in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Commerce Cloud, and Salesforce Platform. You can find here the official announcements: Salesforce …
If you are reading this post it means you are in the right place for content about Alibaba Cloud. In this blog post, I will go through the reasons to use Alibaba Cloud CEN (Cloud Enterprise Network). Introduction It’s worth to mention, that one of the main advantages of a public cloud, is the distributed …
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As part of being an Alibaba Cloud MVP, I get to test from time to time new products from this cloud provider for free, which is a really nice thing to have. In this occasion, thanks to some vouchers I got from the team in Hangzhou, I had the chance to play, for free, with …
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In this blog, we would like to introduce you to the Alibaba Cloud China Gateway. Introduction With the passage of time, new tricks have been introduced in the markets in different geographical locations. Basically, Alibaba Cloud is China’s most adopted public cloud platform that helps tons of customers. In the worldwide business, China has a …
This blog provides general information to help you understand and get started using Alibaba Cloud services. Introduction Alibaba Cloud, also known as Aliyun, is a Chinese cloud computing company, which was officially launched in 2009. Alibaba Cloud is the subsidiary of Alibaba which is considered to be one of the world’s biggest technological companies, owning …
In the following tutorial I will give all the details related to the Alibaba Cloud OSS versioning feature and I will show you in a demo how to configure your OSS buckets as well as how to configure the versioning feature in the Alibaba Cloud console.
In this blog I’m going to deep dive into the Alibaba Cloud CDN, describing the service, how does it work, what are the common scenarios and the benefits. What is CDN? Content Delivery Network (CDN) is an easy and cost-effective way to distribute content with low latency and high data transfer speed. CDN has been …
My name is Ishita Mahajan and I am a Roopu Cloud Ambassador. In this blog post I will deep dive into the Alibaba Cloud Server Load Balancer (SLB). What is Alibaba Cloud Server Load Balancer? Alibaba Cloud Server Load Balancer (SLB) automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple applications, microservices, and containers hosted on ECS …
Gaurav Guruji is a Roopu Cloud Ambassador. On October 6, he recorded a video session explaining how to configure an Apache Web Server on Alibaba Cloud ECS Linux Server. It is a step by step guide in the Alibaba Cloud console. Follow Gaurav in his guide and learn by doing!
This Blog is all about the Alibaba Object Storage Service and Image processing performed on OSS objects . Image Processing is a great feature in OSS. What is Object Storage Service (OSS)? OSS is an Object Storage service provided by Alibaba Cloud. It is an encrypted and secure cloud storage service which stores, processes and …
In this guide I will give you an overview of the Alibaba Cloud Resource Access Management (RAM) service including a console demo. What is Resource Access Management (RAM)? RAM is a Resource Access Management service provided by Alibaba Cloud that helps you to securely control access to the resources. RAM refers to a policy or …
This blog will help you understand what is a VPC and how it works in Alibaba Cloud. Additionally, I have created a step by step guide on how to deploy it using the Alibaba Cloud console. Objectives What is a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and how it works Plan and design a VPC Network Deploy …
During the covid-19 times, we have seen the importance of technology both in the pharmaceutical industry and in research laboratories. In this blog post, I will explain the most common issues in the industry and which solutions does Alibaba Cloud offer. Common issues in the pharma industry The pharma industry is moving from the era …
Cloud providers, specially those ranked higher like Microsoft Azure, Alibaba Cloud or Amazon Web Services, tend to follow very scrupulously all regulations everywhere they have a data center or PoP (point of presence). In the case of Alibaba Cloud, we are talking about a big number of those, both international and regional certifications to assure …
Introduction The situation that is happening worldwide with the pandemic is something horrible, not only from an economic perspective but also from a human perspective. On the other hand, this pandemic has forced businesses, governments, institutions, and employees to change the way they work and ultimately the way they live. In this blog I will …
We can teach you how good and easy to use is Alibaba Cloud, but nothing can be accomplished if you don’t actually have an account. Since many of you asked me me about the process, I created a step by step guide on how to create a free-tier Alibaba Cloud account. Step by step guide …
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When you start your journey around deploying services in China, soon you realise that is not the same as in the rest of places. You even feel that your prior DevOps/Ops experience doesn’t help much on this matter. Suddenly, you feel you need help from companies who specialise in Chinese Clouds. Why is this? For …
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This article will be about the “Alibaba Cloud Foundations”. Many customers ask us about this quite often and we thought it was a good idea to write a bit more about it and show potential customers how it can help both individuals and companies to achieve success by starting off on the Alibaba Cloud provider. …
Requirements Last week, I was designing a cloud solution in the Alibaba Cloud platform for a customer. Nothing special, just creating a simple networking layer with a VPC, virtual switches, and route tables. The requirement was just one: the environment cannot be accessed from the Internet and have no access to the internet. In other words, a …
In this article I’ll go through the advantages of using Aliyun Linux, a CentOS-based Linux distribution developed and maintained by Alibaba Cloud. Compared to other available Virtual Machines like Debian/Ubuntu or RHEL/CentOS (amongst others), Aliyun Linux is made in the cloud and for the cloud. Alibaba optimised this distribution to the point that, if your …
When dealing with critical ECS instances, specially the ones running our applications, many times we worry about their performance all the time, sometimes to the point in where we need to pay or learn to use a number of platforms in order to monitor it. Although you can create automatic alarms using CloudMonitor, sometimes you …
What we want to solve with this tutorial? The problem we want to solve with this article is a very recurrent one. That one that appears when you are developing a website in your local machine, but your client wants to see the progress as you work. The classic approach is to start an ECS …
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When I got my NAS, I had clear that I wanted to access it from anywhere in the world, as I’m a person who loves travelling and from time to time I’ll need the documents, photos and files in general stored in it. It just made sense for me. To make things easier, I purchased …
This GitHub repository is been created to help you understand how to easily deal with emails when working on serverless architectures on Alibaba Cloud Function Compute. We make use of nodejs8 runtime and the official SendinBlue API wrapper sendinblue-api. To orchestrate all, we leverage fun, an amazing tool made by Alibaba Cloud that helps you form serverless …
In today’s post, we will learn how to deploy a Node site using VueJS to an Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS) Instance by using PouchContainer, Alibaba’s open source solution for containerization. At the end of this tutorial you will see how easy is to run a container with Pouch on one of the most …
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Alibaba Cloud (阿里云) is certainly becoming an obvious place where growing organisations are migrating their websites and campaigns to the cloud. This is helping them seeing a lot more prosperity in their operations. Thanks to their fantastic stack made of Apsara (Operating System), hardware and unique products, expect anything running there smoothly. Today, I’m going …
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Serverless is the buzzword among developers recently, right? Well, do you really know how to take full advantage of it? This tutorial will help you to create a small, serverless personal webpage by using Alibaba Cloud Function Compute. We’re going to do this by using the tool “Fun”, because this is all about having fun …
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In web development we have to deal with different environments when developing, testing and deploying our websites or applications. This way of doing things is very useful because it lets you show new features or changes to the client without changing anything on the live, stable site. You, as a developer, would first push that …
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In this tutorial we are going to learn how to run two or more websites using the same Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS) Instance using Docker Compose and a Reverse Proxy. I’ll show two options to achieve that at the end, one option is to run it directly on the host, and the other …
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With this How-To I want to talk about Best Practices using Alibaba Cloud (阿里云) deploying a new website/webapp to their infrastructure, also covering the implementation of the maintenance. The article is going to focus on the deployment from a pure DevOps perspective, as Alibaba Cloud (阿里云) is a platform with all the potential for you to …
According to Wikipedia, “Dynamic DNS (DDNS or DynDNS) is a method of automatically updating a name server record, often in real time, with the active Dynamic DNS configuration of its configured hostnames, addresses or other information.” Typically, a server has a static IP, and the related domain name contains an A Record stating which one …
In this tutorial, I will show you how to set up Bolt on Alibaba Cloud ECS. We will be doing this based on a DevOps approach. About Bolt Bolt is a modern CMS built on top of Silex, some say it’s a “WordPress made right since the beginning”. I would say it is a good …
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As some of you may know, I recently moved all my services and infrastructure to Alibaba Cloud (阿里云), being this one of the best decisions I made in 2017 in terms of Cloud Computing. I used several services in the past, from DreamHost to 1&1 and from AWS to DigitalOcean. So far, Alibaba Cloud (阿里云) …
