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Create a Cross-Region Active-Active Application on Alibaba Cloud
Consider the following situation. You are a race-car driver and your car is at the starting line. Your helmet is on and you already heated up your tires. Then, you look to your left, and the driver...
Setting up GitOps with Alibaba Cloud OSS and GitHub Actions
When dealing with GitHub, we used to always link it with CI/CD tools like CircleCI, Jenkins or Travis, among other tools, to extend the functionality of its resources and also to automate a wide va...
Working with Tengine and OpenResty
If you are thinking of implementing some type of callback URL for a pipeline action, endpoint, or something more complex like an API Gateway, you probably may run in the problem of not knowing whic...
Exploring Aliyun’s Linux Distribution
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 ...
Build your own serverless ECS Instance monitor
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 le...
SSH Tunnelling With Alibaba Cloud To Expose A Local Environment
What we want to solve with this tutorial?
Using PouchContainer to Deploy a Node Site in Alibaba Cloud
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 container...
Tengine, Docker, and PHP Application Best Practices
From a DevOps point of view, the importance of a good architected solution, with proper separation of responsibilities, is fundamental for the long-term success of any application. This case we are...
Build your first serverless website with Alibaba Cloud
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...
Function Compute to Power Schedule Alibaba Cloud ECS Instances
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 ...
How to Deploy Apps Effortlessly with Packer and Terraform
Alibaba Cloud published a very neat white paper about DevOps that is very interesting to read. It shows how “DevOps is a model that goes beyond simple implementation of agile principles to manage t...
Create a VPN-secured VPC with Packer and Terraform
Securing a web application in terms of access management can be tricky, as there are multiple ways to do it in an acceptable way.
Hosting Multiple Websites on a Single Alibaba Cloud ECS Server
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 op...
Setting Up Load Balancers Using Terraform
In this tutorial, I will show you how to set up a CMS, in this case Bolt, on Alibaba Cloud using a Load Balancer and RDS with 3 ECS instances attached. We will be doing this based on a DevOps appro...
Dynamic DNS using Alibaba Cloud DNS API
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 hos...
Run Bolt With Docker And Terraform With Alibaba Cloud
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.