How to setup Auto Scaling in Alibaba / Aliyun Cloud


  • Create a scaling group. Configure the minimum and maximum number of ECS instances in the scaling group, and select the associated Server Load Balancer and RDS instances.
  • Create scaling configuration. Configure the ECS instances attributes for Auto Scaling, such as Image ID and Instance Type.
  • Enable the scaling group with the scaling configuration created in Step 2.
  • Create a scaling rule. For example, add N ECS instances.
  • Create a scheduled task. For example, to trigger the scaling rule created in Step 4 at 12:00 AM.
  • Create an alarm task (Cloud Monitor API PutAlarmRule). For example, to add 1 ECS instance when the average (it can also be max or min) CPU usage is greater than or equal to 80%.

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