Alibaba Cloud Toolkit is an integrated development environment (IDE) plug-in that Alibaba Cloud provides for developers to develop and deploy cloud applications in an efficient way. This plug-in is short for Cloud Toolkit. After you develop, debug, and test your application in your on-premises environment, you can install Alibaba Cloud Toolkit in an IDE, such as IntelliJ IDEA or Eclipse. This way, you can connect to a cloud environment and deploy your application to the cloud by using a graphical user interface (GUI).

Features

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Install Alibaba Cloud Toolkit

After you install and configure Alibaba Cloud Toolkit in IntelliJ IDEA or Eclipse, you can deploy on-premises applications to Enterprise Distributed Application Service (EDAS).

Install and configure Alibaba Cloud Toolkit in IntelliJ IDEA
Deploy applications

You can use Alibaba Cloud Toolkit to deploy applications to EDAS. This is applicable to scenarios, such as fast iterative updates and batch deployment of applications.

Use IntelliJ IDEA to deploy an application to EDAS
Test and diagnose microservices

You can use Alibaba Cloud Toolkit to test and diagnose microservices. This allows you to monitor the service status during development in real time.

Develop applications in an on-premises environment and implement the interconnection between on-premises and cloud applications

You can use Alibaba Cloud Toolkit to directly start a local registry or join a self-managed registry in your on-premises development environment. This helps you implement mutual calling between your services and services of others.

Develop applications in an on-premises environment and implement the interconnection between on-premises and cloud applications