Best Practices

Alibaba Cloud Best Practices is a reference hub where you can learn to deploy complete solutions with step-by-step guides that are based on real procedures used by Alibaba Cloud technical experts. Each best practice includes a business scenario, architecture, and specific deployment procedures, enabling you to deploy complete solutions that empower your business and accelerate your successes on the cloud.

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Database

Performing a Readiness Assessment for an Oracle Database Migration to Alibaba Cloud

Use the ADAM service from Alibaba Cloud to profile your Oracle source database, evaluate the compatibility, specifications, and migration risks, and estimate the cost of the destination databases.

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Security and Compliance

Managing Database Access Control on Alibaba Cloud

Enable centralized database management and enhance data security.

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Security and Compliance

Setting up Centralized Logging on Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud Log Service features real-time monitoring, querying, processing, and analyzing, and allows you to centralize logs from different Alibaba Cloud services.

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Cloud Migration

Deploying a Global Virtual Desktop Infrastructure on Alibaba Cloud

Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) enables organizations to provide virtual desktops to their employees through a secure network with various endpoint devices.

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Media Services

Building Live Streaming Apps Based on Alibaba Cloud Services

Alibaba Cloud provides all the help you need to build live streaming apps for iOS and Android devices.

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Containers & Microservices

Manually Scaling a Kubernetes Cluster on Alibaba Cloud

Deploy a containerized application on a Kubernetes cluster and manually scale the cluster to adjust its compute capacity in response to expected workload changes.

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Operations and Maintenance

Managing Your Resources on Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud Resource Directory enables you to organize accounts into hierarchies. You can create RAM users and roles under different accounts and create resource groups to organize resources.

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Containers & Microservices

Optimizing GPU Usage for a Kubernetes Cluster

Alibaba Cloud allows you to create Kubernetes clusters consisting of nodes equipped with NVIDIA GPUs and provides useful tools to help you optimize GPU usage on cluster nodes.

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Cloud Migration

Integrating RDS SQL Server with Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services

Configure Alibaba Cloud RDS SQL Server to work with Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) and centrally manage your directory data.

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Networking

Building a Global Network Architecture on Alibaba Cloud

Build a global network architecture that ensures smooth and secure communications between different regions.

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Cloud Migration

Migrating Data from an On-premises Store to Alibaba Cloud

Migrate data from an on-premises store to a NAS file system that is mounted on an ECS instance. Utilize Internet shared bandwidth to enable rapid data transmission at affordable costs.

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Containers & Microservices

Deploying Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on Alibaba Cloud

You can host Red Hat OpenShift clusters on Alibaba Cloud to reduce operational overheads associated with container orchestration.

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Containers & Microservices

Deploying a Highly Scalable Kubernetes Cluster on Alibaba Cloud

Deploy a containerized application on a Kubernetes cluster and set up auto scaling to automatically adjust the compute capacity of the cluster in response to workload changes.

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Cloud Migration

Transforming a Single-server Deployment for SMEs on Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud makes it easy for SMEs to transform a single-server deployment and take advantage of cloud computing such as component isolation, reverse proxy load balancing, and auto scaling.

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Containers & Microservices

Comparing Performances of Different Networks for Alibaba Cloud Kubernetes Clusters

Compare network performances of Kubernetes clusters based on metrics including latency, throughput, and packet forwarding rate.

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Containers & Microservices

Migrating an On-premises Kubernetes Cluster to Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud provides various services to facilitate migrating on-premises Kubernetes deployments to Container Service for Kubernetes.

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