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NGT's five steps on Alibaba Cloud, which service moves what, and operations after the move.
AssessGateway in frontFirst sliceWavesRetire legacyFactory and strangler
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NGT's journey on Alibaba Cloud
The same five steps NGT runs on every cloud, with Alibaba Cloud's own tools.
- 01Assessment
- Readiness of legacy systems and applications
- Current and target architecture
- 02MVP / PoC
- Landing zone as code
- A first slice or a pilot server
- 03Planning
- Waves and move groups
- Slices ordered by value and risk
- 04Implementation
- Rehost with Server Migration Center
- Slices onto Container Service for Kubernetes
- 05Operation
- FinOps, CloudOps, AIOps, SecOps
- Hyper-care, then managed operations
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What moves, with which service, onto what
| What moves | Moved with | Lands on |
|---|---|---|
| Servers | Server Migration Center | Elastic Compute Service |
| Databases | Data Transmission Service | PolarDB or ApsaraDB RDS |
| Files and objects | Data Online Migration | Object Storage Service |
| Applications, slice by slice | DevOps pipelines and API Gateway | Container Service for Kubernetes |
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Running Alibaba Cloud after the move
Four operating practices, one monthly rhythm with the customer.
Infrastructure operationsEfficient, cost-optimised and secure
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FinOps
Tags, budgets and a monthly cost review with the owners.
Always onCloudMonitorSimple Log ServiceActionTrail
SourcesFPT Software Alibaba Cloud Service OfferingFPT Software Hanoi Alibaba certificate list (2024)FPT Software Hanoi certification register (Nov 2024)NGT Service Offering v2.0 (Mar 2025)
