This guide walks you through deploying the Qwen 3.5‑plus model on Alibaba Cloud ACK/ACS using the ACS Agent Sandbox, creating a CoPaw sandbox, configuring model access, integrating with DingTalk, and optionally using the sandbox’s pause‑and‑wake features.
This article explains Kafka’s core mechanisms for preventing data loss, covering replica architecture, leader‑follower roles, ACK policies with ISR, log persistence and flush strategies, as well as producer idempotence and transactional support that together ensure reliable, exactly‑once delivery.
This guide details comprehensive security best practices for deploying Ray clusters on Alibaba Cloud ACK, covering TLS communication, namespace isolation, resource quotas, RBAC, security contexts, image scanning, resource limits, RRSA integration, multi‑cluster isolation, and recommendations for protecting dashboards and services from unauthorized access.
This guide explains how to prepare, deploy, and verify the Qwen3‑8B large language model on an Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) cluster using ACS GPU resources, covering prerequisites, model download, storage setup, Kubernetes manifests, and testing the inference service.
This guide explains how Alibaba Cloud ACK Backup Center enables data protection, backup, and cross‑cluster migration of Kubernetes Persistent Volumes by leveraging the Data Protection feature, illustrating configuration steps, backup and restore workflows, and practical YAML examples.
This guide explains how Alibaba Cloud ACK’s Backup Center protects Kubernetes storage volumes, walks through creating backup plans with the Data Protection feature, demonstrates a NAS‑to‑Cloud‑Disk migration example, and details the step‑by‑step backup and restore procedures including YAML definitions and snapshot handling.
This case study describes how Qimai Technology, a SaaS provider for offline stores, tackled rapid cloud cost growth by establishing a cost center that uses CMDB mapping, Alibaba Cloud ACK Cost V2 API, and static and dynamic allocation rules to achieve fine‑grained resource cost distribution and improve financial transparency.
This guide explains how to deploy the QwQ-32B large language model using vLLM on an Alibaba Cloud ACK Kubernetes cluster, configure storage, set up OpenWebUI, enable ACK Gateway with AI Extension for intelligent routing, and benchmark the inference service performance.
This article explains how Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) has upgraded its storage monitoring dashboards to provide detailed visibility into local, PVC, and cloud‑based volumes, enabling users to detect IO bottlenecks, track real‑time read/write performance, and improve overall container reliability.
This article explains how Alibaba Cloud ACK’s four configurable plugins—ElasticWorkload, WorkloadSpread, UnitedDeployment, and ResourcePolicy—provide flexible, on‑demand resource scaling for serverless workloads, compares their architectures, outlines usage scenarios, shows real‑world examples, and discusses their strengths and limitations.
The article details how the Juqian intelligent investment research platform leverages Alibaba Cloud's ACK cloud‑native AI suite, Kubernetes, and various cloud services to build a high‑efficiency, scalable AI‑driven quantitative finance solution, improving resource utilization, reducing costs, and accelerating research workflows.
This article explains how Alibaba Cloud ACK Backup Center simplifies Kubernetes disaster recovery and cross‑cluster migration by offering automated resource‑adjustment policies, detailed backup and restore workflows, and a step‑by‑step best‑practice example for migrating a stateful application with custom YAML configurations.
This guide explains how Alibaba Cloud ACK Backup Center enables reliable backup, resource adjustment, and seamless migration of stateful applications across Kubernetes clusters, detailing the backup workflow, configurable adjustment strategies, and a step‑by‑step example of moving a StatefulSet from an on‑premise cluster to ACK.
This article outlines the multifaceted challenges of cross‑cloud container service migration—including data security, service interruption, compatibility, and storage complexities—and demonstrates how Alibaba Cloud ACK's Backup Center can address these issues through comprehensive backup, selective restoration, and automated resource adjustments.
This guide explains how to deploy the Dify LLMOps platform on Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK), configuring cloud databases, enabling high‑availability replicas, setting up elastic scaling, and exposing the service via Ingress to create a production‑grade, scalable AI application environment.
This guide explains how enterprises can overcome IDC data‑center capacity limits by leveraging Alibaba Cloud ACK One registration clusters to achieve flexible, cost‑effective elastic scaling, detailing architecture, registration steps, node‑pool creation, virtual nodes, multi‑level scheduling, and associated command‑line examples.
This article presents a comprehensive overview of high‑availability design patterns and best‑practice recommendations for Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK), covering common error scenarios, single‑cluster and multi‑cluster architectures, workload resilience, monitoring, and real‑world case studies.
This guide walks you through deploying NVIDIA NIM for LLM inference on Alibaba Cloud ACK, integrating the Cloud Native AI Suite, configuring KServe, setting up Prometheus and Grafana monitoring, and implementing custom autoscaling based on request queue metrics.
This guide explains how to use Alibaba Cloud MSE to add traffic control, circuit breaking, gray release and other governance capabilities to Go microservices without modifying business code, covering compilation injection, deployment steps, and practical demo configurations.
This guide explains the principles and step‑by‑step practice of using Nginx Ingress for gray (canary) deployments on Alibaba Cloud ACK, covering environment setup, Ingress annotations, service and deployment definitions, CI/CD pipeline configuration, and common troubleshooting tips.
This article details how a large ride‑hailing platform tackled container scaling delays and cost inefficiencies by adopting Alibaba Cloud ACK's Advanced Horizontal Pod Autoscaler, combining ECS and Elastic Container Instances, customizing scheduling policies, and injecting sidecars into virtual nodes to achieve proactive, cost‑effective elasticity.
This guide introduces essential Linux text‑search utilities—including grep, ack, the Silver Searcher (ag), ripgrep, and find—explaining their syntax, key options, practical examples, and when to choose each tool for efficient file and content searching.
This article explains how Alibaba Cloud's native elastic solutions—covering application‑level scaling, resource‑level scaling, and the new instant elastic controller—help enterprises improve Kubernetes cluster resource utilization, reduce costs, and simplify operations through advanced metrics, custom scaling policies, and event‑driven node management.
This article explains the stability challenges of large‑scale Kubernetes clusters, outlines ACK's high‑availability architecture and component optimizations, and details product features such as Prometheus, AIOps and managed node pools that together ensure reliable, performant cloud‑native workloads.
This article explains how to build robust, highly available cloud‑native applications on Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) by covering architecture principles, multi‑zone cluster design, Kubernetes HA features such as topology spread constraints and pod anti‑affinity, storage strategies, load‑balancing, virtual nodes, health probes, monitoring, and multi‑cluster deployment patterns.
This guide walks through deploying a Bloom 7B1 large language model for distributed inference on Alibaba Cloud Container Service (ACK) using DeepSpeed, Arena, and Kubernetes, covering environment setup, model configuration, service launch, verification, and Ingress exposure.
This guide walks you through the prerequisites, step‑by‑step console and kubectl procedures, YAML configuration, and post‑deployment verification needed to run a CPU‑only Stable Diffusion model on Alibaba Cloud Container Service (ACK) and optionally switch to a GPU‑enabled version.
Koordinator, an open‑source cloud‑native scheduler from Alibaba, enhances container performance and reduces cluster costs by introducing mixed‑workload placement, resource profiling, load‑aware scheduling, and differentiated SLO mixing, now fully integrated into Alibaba Cloud ACK with a new v1.1.1‑ack.1 release.
This article explains the shift of big data and machine‑learning workloads toward storage‑compute separation and cloud‑native architectures, outlines the technical challenges of running Spark on Kubernetes, and details the EMR on ACK solution with its architecture, performance gains, and real‑world adoption.
This tutorial walks through provisioning an Alibaba Cloud ACK Kubernetes cluster using Terraform, covering provider setup, VPC and VSwitch creation, managed Kubernetes resource definition, Jenkins deployment, DNS configuration, and cleanup procedures, with full code examples.
This article explains how Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) uses container‑level resource profiling with half‑life sliding windows and quantile algorithms to automatically recommend accurate CPU and memory requests, improving cluster utilization while maintaining application stability.
This article explains why Kubernetes clusters need an ingress point, compares NodePort, LoadBalancer, and Ingress solutions, introduces Ingress Providers, details Nginx and Alibaba Cloud MSE Ingress Controllers, and provides a step‑by‑step tutorial for deploying services and Ingress resources on an ACK cluster.
The article explains how to achieve 100% message delivery and consumption in MQ systems by covering producer acknowledgments, broker persistence mechanisms, and consumer idempotency, with detailed comparisons of RabbitMQ and Kafka implementations and configuration tips.
An in‑depth look at Kafka’s high‑availability architecture reveals how multi‑replica redundancy, ISR mechanisms, and the configuration of the __consumer_offset topic interact, explaining why a single broker failure can render the entire cluster unusable and how to properly configure replication and ack settings to prevent it.
This FAQ outlines the new Kubernetes 1.22 capabilities, the components Alibaba Cloud ACK upgrades for this version, added observability, stability and performance improvements, and key upgrade considerations such as deprecated APIs and runtime changes.
This article explains TCP's core mechanisms—including acknowledgment (ACK), timeout retransmission, the three‑way handshake for establishing connections, and the four‑way handshake for graceful termination—while illustrating each concept with diagrams and addressing common interview questions.
This article explains Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes's differential SLO approach, detailing the reclaimed‑resource model, CPU burst and topology‑aware scheduling, kernel group identity, memory watermark tiering, and real‑world case studies that demonstrate significant improvements in cluster efficiency and latency‑sensitive workload performance.
This guide outlines the motivations, reliability guarantees, migration design, application refactoring, and toolchain for moving on‑premises or other‑cloud workloads to Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) with a focus on stability, security, and cost efficiency.
This article explains how cloud‑native technologies enable a unified control plane for Alibaba Cloud ACK clusters and self‑built Kubernetes clusters, detailing the ACK registered‑cluster architecture, one‑way registration, non‑managed security mechanisms, step‑by‑step cluster onboarding, and consistent security governance across environments.
This step‑by‑step tutorial shows how to configure Vim with Vundle, vim‑go, NERDTree, Tagbar, neocomplete, goimports, golint, gocode, ack and custom shortcuts to create a full‑featured Go development environment on Linux.
This article explains Kafka's high‑availability mechanisms—including multi‑replica design, ISR synchronization, and the impact of the request.required.acks setting—while diagnosing why a single‑replica __consumer_offset topic can cause the entire consumer group to stop when a broker fails.
This article explains why a single Kafka broker failure can render the whole cluster unusable, detailing Kafka’s multi‑replica design, leader election, ISR mechanism, acknowledgment settings, and how to configure replication factors and consumer offset topics to achieve true high availability.
This guide explains how Alibaba Cloud's ACK Cloud Controller Manager now supports attaching both in‑cluster nodes and external ECS instances to the same CLB backend, enabling smooth traffic migration, canary releases, and multi‑cluster high‑availability with step‑by‑step instructions and code examples.
A Kafka broker outage can halt consumer consumption despite remaining brokers, due to replication settings, ISR mechanics, and the internal __consumer_offsets topic’s default replication factor, which this article explains and resolves with practical configuration steps.
This article explains why Kafka can lose messages at the broker, producer, and consumer levels, describes the underlying mechanisms such as page cache flushing and acknowledgment settings, and provides practical code examples and mitigation strategies to improve reliability.
This guide explains how to use GitHub Actions together with Alibaba Cloud Container Service (ACK) and Container Registry (ACR) to build a lightweight, automated CI/CD pipeline that packages an Nginx app into a container, pushes it to ACR, and deploys it to ACK, illustrating a practical DevOps workflow.
This article examines a Kafka outage scenario in a fintech company, explains Kafka’s multi-replica redundancy design, leader‑follower architecture, ISR mechanism, and how misconfiguration of the __consumer_offset topic can cause cluster-wide consumer failures, and provides solutions to ensure true high availability.
Discover five fast, cross‑platform command‑line utilities—including ack, The Silver Searcher, sift, and RipGrep—that simplify complex grep tasks, support file‑type filtering, and boost code‑search efficiency without relying on editors or IDEs.
This article presents a complete Spring Boot solution for sending emails via RabbitMQ, covering message confirmation, consumer idempotency, retry mechanisms, manual acknowledgments, configuration details, code implementation, testing procedures, and an optional dynamic‑proxy extension for clean business logic.
This article explains how Alibaba Cloud Container Service (ACK) designs a unit‑based, tiered management system, capacity planning model, global observability architecture, and pluggable components to reliably operate more than ten thousand diverse Kubernetes clusters during the massive Double‑11 shopping event.
This article explains the rise of multi‑cluster designs, outlines three common scenarios—cloud burst, disaster recovery, and active‑active—examines the complexities of application delivery across clusters, and details how Kubernetes and Alibaba Cloud’s ACK implement unified APIs, tunnel mechanisms, and high‑availability to enable true multi‑cloud operations.
The article outlines Alibaba Cloud's ACK migration solution, detailing how ACK ensures reliability and security, the three key questions to address, comprehensive migration design—including cluster planning, data transfer, monitoring, and traffic switching—along with open‑source tools, hybrid management 2.0, edge integration, and real‑world case studies.
This article introduces several essential Vim plugins—including Vundle, YouCompleteMe, CtrlP, NERDTree, and Ack—explaining their benefits, installation via Vundle, and usage tips to enhance coding efficiency within the editor; it also provides a sample Vundle configuration snippet and highlights shortcuts for quick file navigation.
