The cloud landscape is constantly evolving, and mastering a platform like Alibaba Cloud is essential for modern IT professionals. For beginners, the sheer volume of services can be overwhelming. That's why we've curated a comprehensive learning path designed to cut through the noise and deliver practical, real-world skills. This roadmap focuses on hands-on experience, ensuring you don't just read about cloud services, but actively deploy and manage them. Ready to build a solid foundation in cloud infrastructure, storage, networking, and application deployment? Let's dive into three foundational labs that will accelerate your journey.
Use TensorFlow to Classify Images
Difficulty: Beginner | Time: 60 minutes
This lab is based on serverless Kubernetes (ASK) clusters. This lab describes how to use TensorFlow, a deep learning framework, to classify images.
ASK is a serverless Kubernetes service provided by Alibaba Cloud. You can deploy containerized applications without the need to purchase nodes, maintain nodes, or plan capacity for your ASK cluster. Bills are generated based on the CPU and memory quotas that you configured for your applications. ASK clusters are compatible with Kube
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Use the Terraform to Create Cloud Resources
Difficulty: Beginner | Time: 60 minutes
Terraform is used in this lab. As a resource O&M tool running on the open source DevOps infrastructure, Terraform enables you to securely and efficiently build and change various service resources from multiple cloud vendors. In this lab, Terraform is used to create and orchestrate Alibaba Cloud resources based on the configuration file, and directly build a WordPress website architecture that contains various Alibaba Cloud resources, including the Server Load Balancer, RDS, and EC
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Use WAF to Protect a Website
Difficulty: Beginner | Time: 60 minutes
This section provides an lab that describes how to use Alibaba Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) to protect a website. WAF provides end-to-end security protection for websites and apps. WAF identifies, scrubs, and filters malicious web traffic, and then forwards normal traffic to origin servers. This helps protect origin servers against attacks and ensures data security and service security.
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These three hands-on labs are more than just exercises; they are concentrated skill-building sessions. In just a few hours, you will transition from a cloud novice to someone who can deploy serverless AI, automate complex infrastructure using IaC, and secure web applications against real-world threats. Start this learning path today to gain the practical expertise that employers demand and solidify your foundation in the dynamic world of Alibaba Cloud.
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