hands-on lab
Creating an Alibaba Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Difficulty: Beginner
Duration: Up to 1 hour
Students: 389
Rating: 4.3/5
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Description
Alibaba Virtual Private Cloud is a foundational cloud offering that allows you to create private networks to host your cloud infrastructure. A VPC is a configurable base layer tool that underpins almost every other commonly used cloud service.
Being able to create private networks in the cloud enables you to control access to your cloud resources and implement best practice network security principles.
In this hands-on lab, you will use the Alibaba Cloud management console to create and configure a new VPC.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this beginner-level lab, you will be able to:
- Navigate to the Alibaba Cloud VPC console
- Create and configure a new Alibaba Cloud VPC
- Inspect and observe the configuration of your VPC
Intended Audience
- Cloud Architects
- Network Architects
- DevOps Engineers
Prerequisites
Familiarity with the following will be beneficial but is not required:
- Virtual Private Cloud concepts from other cloud vendors
- Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service networking
The following AWS course and Alibaba Cloud lecture can be used to fulfill the prerequisites:
Environment before
Environment after
Covered topics
Lab steps
Logging Into the Alibaba Cloud Console
Creating an Alibaba Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)