"Cloud Computing Open Application Architecture" standard released, Alibaba Cloud continues to lead cloud native

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On May 26, at the 2021 Cloud Native Industry Conference, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology and CNCF released 2021 outstanding cloud native cases and technological innovation cases. Alibaba Cloud Container Service ACK/Serverless K8s (ASK+ECI), Alibaba Cloud Service Grid ASM, AHAS full-link stress testing solutions were rated as 2021 cloud native technology innovation solutions/products; technical support provided by Alibaba Cloud Good Future and Chanjet have won outstanding cases of cloud native applications in 2021.

At the same time, Alibaba Cloud and more than 10 units formally released the "Cloud Computing Open Application Architecture" standard at this conference. The architecture is based on the open source project "Open Application Architecture Model OAM" jointly initiated by Alibaba Cloud and Microsoft Cloud. It aims to provide cloud application managers with a unified application description specification and an open application capability management framework, in order to promote simplicity and efficiency. , Controllable cloud-native application management and delivery methods are implemented on a large scale in more industries and enterprises.

  

Cloud native practice helps enterprises to innovate efficiently

Chanjet is a member company of UFIDA Group, focusing on financial and management services for domestic small and micro enterprises. In the early days, Chanjet's business applications were all built on the company's self-developed CSP platform. With the increase in the number of users, the existing solution of assigning an independent virtual machine to each user became prominent.

In this context, Chanjet's R&D team decided to cooperate with Alibaba Cloud and adopt the industry-leading cloud-native architecture design solution, that is, use the cloud infrastructure, share computing and storage resources, adopt a containerized solution, and quickly and elastically expand capacity. , Utilizing the micro-service architecture, updating products according to applications, thoroughly solving the current problems of high operation and maintenance costs, insufficient flexibility, and unbalanced resource utilization. With the benefits of cloud-native technology, Chanjet can only focus on business development. On the one hand, it can accelerate the construction of new applications. On the other hand, it can also optimize existing applications and integrate them in the cloud-native architecture to achieve the effect of changing wheels on the run.

Good Future is a leading online education company in China. To provide users with a better experience, Good Future is constantly strengthening the exploration of the AI direction. After experiencing the limitations of the original monolithic architecture, based on the concept of cloud-native microservice governance, it is a good choice for the future to use Alibaba Cloud to fully transform the cloud-native architecture system based on Kubernetes+Spring Cloud.

Thanks to the design idea of the cloud native architecture, Good Future has completed the establishment of a standardized hosting service platform for AI service deployment. The stability of the platform's ability to call reaches 99.99%. At the peak, it supports high concurrency of 300,000+ online and can respond quickly to business. Need to be expanded. Through efficient cloud server management capabilities, the use efficiency of hardware resources is effectively improved, and machine costs are saved by about 300w per month; more than 30 operation and maintenance monitoring tools have been launched in total, such as automatic scaling, monitoring, custom alarms, log queries, etc. The AI R&D team does not need to conduct additional development, reducing operation and maintenance costs by 90%.

Alibaba Cloud cloud-native products and solutions create a new digital engine for enterprises

Li Xiaoping, product leader of Alibaba Cloud's cloud native application platform, mentioned in his keynote speech at the 2021 Cloud Native Industry Conference that cloud native is the shortest path for enterprise digital innovation. Alibaba Cloud has the richest cloud-native product family in China, with more than 300 cloud products and nearly a thousand technical solutions, including cloud-native DevOps, aPaaS & microservices, messaging and event-driven, application tools, serverless architecture, etc., as well as cloud Native database, big data/AI, application delivery and security capabilities, etc. It can be said that a company was born in the cloud-native era and can build its own IT system based on the cloud, in which Alibaba Cloud can provide the most complete technical solutions and product system.

Li Xiaoping, Product Leader of Alibaba Cloud Cloud Native Application Platform

Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK for short) provides high-performance and scalable container application management capabilities to support the full lifecycle management of enterprise-level containerized applications; it has been selected in the Gartner Public Cloud Container Report for three consecutive years and will be included in the 2019 Forrester Container Report Ranked No. 1 in China. Container Service ACK integrates Alibaba Cloud's virtualization, storage, network, and security capabilities to help enterprises efficiently run cloud Kubernetes containerized applications.

This time, we obtained the cloud-native technology innovation solution/product from the Institute of Information and Communications Technology, and valued the technological innovation layout of the container service ACK at the three levels of cloud-native AI, container security runtime and bare metal architecture. At the same time, Serverless Kubernetes is fully compatible with K8s and runs in a secure and isolated operating environment based on Elastic Container Instances (ECI), which greatly improves the agility and elasticity of application deployment, reduces computing costs and operation and maintenance costs, and allows customers to focus on business applications instead of Underlying infrastructure management. Alibaba Cloud Container Service has extensively served enterprises and institutions in the Internet, finance, retail, education, manufacturing, government affairs and other fields, greatly reducing the threshold for application development and allowing enterprises to easily enjoy the technological dividend of the cloud.

Cloud Service Grid (ASM for short) is the industry’s first Istio-compatible managed service grid platform for unified management of microservice application traffic. It continues to polish "hosted, standardized, safe and stable, easier to use, and easy to expand." Product characteristics. Through functions such as flow control, grid observation, and communication security between services, you can simplify your service governance in an all-round way. It provides unified capabilities for services running on heterogeneous computing infrastructure, and is suitable for Kubernetes clusters, Serverless Kubernetes clusters, ECS virtual machines, and multi-cloud hybrid cloud scenarios.

AHAS full-link stress test solution born out of the high-availability technology system of Alibaba's e-commerce business. After the peak test of Double 11 over the years, it supports the read and write stress test of the online production environment cluster, and obtains the most realistic online carrying capacity reflection. . The AHAS full-link stress testing solution effectively improves the stability and robustness of enterprise applications through an integrated high-availability guarantee system, including online stress testing, capacity planning, flow control, flow scheduling, switching plans, fault drills, etc. It can help enterprise applications calmly cope with the uncertainties caused by all businesses and technologies. see more:

Release of cloud computing open application architecture, accelerating the implementation of cloud-native scale

At the 2021 Cloud Native Industry Conference, more than 10 units including Alibaba Cloud and the Institute of Information and Communications Technology jointly issued the "Cloud Computing Open Application Architecture" standard. The important value of the open application architecture is that it can provide a set of unified application description specifications for the majority of cloud application managers, realize the decoupling between cloud computing applications and the underlying platform, and solve the problems of application deployment and migration difficulties. At the same time, the separation of concerns between developers, operation and maintenance and platform operations personnel allows different roles to focus on domain knowledge and capabilities, making application delivery more efficient, reliable and automated.

As the representative of the core sponsor, Li Xiaoping, the product leader of Alibaba Cloud Cloud Native Application Platform, said: "Openness, standards, and agility are the keys to the rapid development of cloud native technology. Cloud native is helping companies get through the "last mile" of digitalization. Under the key node of the industry, a common definition and construction of the entire industry is needed."

Alibaba Cloud is a cloud-native realist, born for the value of cloud-native

Actual combat is an important criterion for testing cloud native technology. As enterprises go to the cloud to become a trend in the industry, the era of fully using open source technologies and cloud products to build software services has arrived. How to better embrace cloud computing, embrace cloud native, and accelerate innovation with technology will become the key to enterprise digital innovation and upgrading. In the future, every company in the world will become a digital software company. There may not be a unified path for digital transformation, but it has been proven in practice that cloud native is the shortest path for companies to achieve digital innovation. Alibaba Cloud Cloud Native is committed to providing enterprises with five core values: resource flexibility, system stability, application agility, business intelligence, trustworthiness and security, so that enterprises can use the cloud with confidence and make good use of the cloud.

ZhongAn Technology uses container service ACK to reduce operation and maintenance pressure, reducing manpower by more than 50%, and hardware resource investment by 10%; Perfect Diary uses container service ACK to quickly expand and shrink capacity and save server costs by 50% under frequent and large-scale promotion scenarios. Above, use performance testing PTS and observable ARMS to predict the carrying capacity of the system at the same time to realize reasonable resource planning; Chanjet is based on the enterprise-level distributed application service EDAS in order to cope with fierce external competition and bring applications to the market quickly. Build a stable and reliable microservice architecture, and at the same time access the observable product ARMS, improve the efficiency of locating faults by 50%; the large-scale application of Node.js Serverless technology in Taobao's core system can effectively cope with the peak QPS of millions and achieve a 50% reduction in labor costs; Pumpkin Film passed the Alibaba Cloud Serverless product SAE, 7-day full serverless, accelerated business iteration cycle, and increased efficiency by 80%.

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