Deploy a Click‑to‑Play Game on Alibaba Cloud SAE in 5 Minutes

Prerequisites

Alibaba Cloud account with access to Serverless Application Engine (SAE) and Container Registry (ACR).

SAE trial quota (or paid quota) activated.

Source code of the game stored in a Git repository that SAE can pull (e.g., GitHub, GitLab, or a private repo accessible via HTTPS).

Deployment Procedure

Log in to the Alibaba Cloud console and open the SAE console. Navigate to Application Management → Application List and select the target region (e.g., North China 3 (Zhangjiakou) ).

Enter the SAE 2.0 public test console by clicking Experience SAE 2.0 Public Test .

Create a new application: Application Management → Create Application .

On the Create Application page, configure the following sections:

Basic Information

Enter a unique application name and a short description.

Set Deployment Method to Continuous Deployment from Source Repository .

Continuous Deployment Settings

Provide the Git repository URL (e.g., https://github.com/your-org/your-game.git) and branch to build.

Specify the build command if needed (e.g., npm install && npm run build for a Node.js project).

Configure the container image destination in ACR (e.g.,

registry.cn-zhangjiakou.aliyuncs.com/your-repo/your-image:latest

).

HTTP Traffic Full Managed

Enable HTTP traffic, keep the default port (8080) unless the application requires a different one.

Leave the IP whitelist empty for public access; SAE will automatically add the first client IP.

Capacity Settings

Accept the default CPU/Memory allocation (SAE will auto‑scale based on traffic).

Click Skip Advanced Settings unless custom environment variables or scaling policies are required.

After filling the sections, click Create Application . SAE will clone the repository, build the image, push it to ACR, and start the service.

When the application is running, go to the Basic Information page, locate the Public Access URL under the HTTP Traffic section, and click it to open the game. The first request automatically adds your public IP to the whitelist. If later access fails, update the whitelist manually in the console.

Following these steps, the click‑to‑play mini‑game is deployed to Alibaba Cloud SAE without writing additional deployment scripts.