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Quickly deploy Dify to build AI applications

Dify lets you build AI applications quickly without coding. However, local private deployments often have high maintenance costs and low reliability. This solution shows you how to build a cloud-native, high-availability architecture on Alibaba Cloud to deploy Dify.

Intended customers

Startups or developer teams that want to accelerate AI product development

Small and medium-sized enterprises that need to build AI applications with a low-code solution

Large enterprises that need to flexibly scale their AI platform to meet changing business needs

Solution overview

Diverse solutions to choose from

For test environment

Easy

10

Based on ACK

Intended customers

AI application developers and testers with some O&M experience

Benefits

A single-instance version that costs only 30% of the multi-zone deployment solution.

Provides deep control over Kubernetes clusters for high flexibility.

For production environment

Medium difficulty

9

Based on ACK

Intended customers

Users who need to deploy AI applications to a production environment and have some O&M experience

Benefits

Multi-zone deployment ensures continuous business operations.

Provides deep control over Kubernetes clusters for high flexibility.

Solution advantages

Benefits

High performance

Flexibly allocate resources to handle traffic peaks.

High availability

Multi-zone deployment enables smart failover and load balancing.

Cost optimization

Flexible billing modes and auto scaling.

Security

Easily integrate Anti-DDoS, Web Application Firewall, and Security Center.

Deploy Dify

Quickly deploy Dify

For test environment

2870155

This solution uses the ack-dify template from the marketplace of Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK). It uses Helm to deploy a single-instance version of Dify quickly, which is suitable for AI application development and testing.

25 minutes

$0.6/hour(The cost is an estimate and assumes you use the same cloud resources and specifications as the example in this solution. Your actual cost may vary based on the resource count, specifications, version, and configuration. The price displayed on the console is the final cost.)

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Container Service for KubernetesElastic Compute ServiceAlibaba Cloud Model StudioApsara File Storage NASNAT GatewayServer Load Balancer

For production environment

2871859

This solution uses Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) to deploy Dify across multiple zones, which ensures continuous business operations. The solution uses the High-availability Edition of Tair (Redis OSS-compatible), ApsaraDB RDS for PostgreSQL, and Tablestore to replace the default components. This improves system performance and stability.

50 minutes

$2/hour(The cost is an estimate and assumes you use the same cloud resources and specifications as the example in this solution. Your actual cost may vary based on the resource count, specifications, version, and configuration. The price displayed on the console is the final cost.)

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Container Service for KubernetesTablestoreTair (Redis OSS-compatible)Elastic Compute ServiceAlibaba Cloud Model StudioApsara File Storage NASNAT GatewayServer Load Balancer

Build AI applications

Efficiently build AI applications

Build an AI chat application

2876504

This solution shows you how to build an AI chat application quickly using Dify. The application supports mainstream open source and proprietary large language models. It provides efficient and accurate question and answer (Q&A) pairs to meet general knowledge query needs.

10 minutes

$0.6/hour (test environment deployment); $2/hour (production environment deployment)(The cost is an estimate and assumes you use the same cloud resources and specifications as the example in this solution. Your actual cost may vary based on the resource count, specifications, version, and configuration. The price displayed on the console is the final cost.)

1

Container Service for KubernetesElastic Compute ServiceServer Load BalancerAlibaba Cloud Model StudioApsara File Storage NAS

Build a RAG-driven AI chat application

2876505

This solution shows you how to build a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) driven AI chat application quickly using Dify. By integrating a local knowledge base with the generation capabilities of a large language model, it provides in-depth Q&A pairs for private domains, reduces hallucinations, and improves information timeliness.

10 minutes

$0.6/hour (test environment deployment); $2/hour (production environment deployment)(The cost is an estimate and assumes you use the same cloud resources and specifications as the example in this solution. Your actual cost may vary based on the resource count, specifications, version, and configuration. The price displayed on the console is the final cost.)

2

Container Service for KubernetesElastic Compute ServiceServer Load BalancerAlibaba Cloud Model StudioApsara File Storage NAS

Application scenarios

Use cases

d1

Teaching assistant

Provides personalized teaching assistance for education companies.

d2

Investment assistant

Provides real-time investment advice, product recommendations, and market updates.

d3

Customer service

An intelligent customer service system that automatically handles user inquiries, order queries, and after-sales service.

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