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Golden Image to Secure Production Stack

A DevOps team first builds a hardened Alibaba Cloud Linux golden image (OS hardening, security tuning, application baseline), then uses Terraform to deploy a complete HTTPS web fleet from that custom image — provisioning VPC, ECS cluster behind SLB with CAS-managed SSL certificates, OSS storage, and finally configures automated snapshot policies and cross-region backup for disaster recovery.

Products involved

Scenario

A DevOps team first builds a hardened Alibaba Cloud Linux golden image (OS hardening, security tuning, application baseline), then uses Terraform to deploy a complete HTTPS web fleet from that custom image — provisioning VPC, ECS cluster behind SLB with CAS-managed SSL certificates, OSS storage, and finally configures automated snapshot policies and cross-region backup for disaster recovery.

How the products combine

  1. alinux · ecs-golden-image-pipeline-setup-bfb94d — ECS Golden Image Pipeline Setup
  2. See _combos/ecs-golden-image-pipeline-setup-bfb94d.

  3. alinux · golden-image-to-terraform-scaled-infrastructure-b93327 — Golden Image to Terraform-Scaled Infrastructure
  4. See _combos/golden-image-to-terraform-scaled-infrastructure-b93327.

  5. alinux · secure-web-stack-with-data-protection-3bfd39 — Secure Web Stack with Data Protection
  6. See _combos/secure-web-stack-with-data-protection-3bfd39.

  7. alinux · deploy-and-network-configure-ecs-server-08baa5 — Deploy and Network-Configure ECS Server
  8. See _combos/deploy-and-network-configure-ecs-server-08baa5.

Typical questions

FAQ

Q: How do I build a hardened golden image and deploy a secure HTTPS web fleet with backups using Terraform? A: You can accomplish this by first creating a hardened Alibaba Cloud Linux golden image and then using Terraform to deploy a complete HTTPS web fleet with CAS-managed SSL certificates, automated snapshots, and cross-region backups. This workflow integrates the ECS Golden Image Pipeline with Terraform-driven infrastructure scaling to automate the entire deployment.