Introduction: Cloud Toolkit has been downloaded more than 23W times and has become the common choice of many developers. What makes Cloud Toolkit so popular among developers?
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In daily development operations, we often encounter repetitive tasks that take up a lot of our time. We’ve all been there:

  • With each iteration of the product, the process of “package – upload – log in to the server – replace – deploy – restart” is repeated over and over.
  • Switch back and forth between local IDE, cloud product console, Git/SVN, Maven/Gradle, mirror repository, ECS, container, etc.
  • In the research and development process, if you want to find some efficient code management, automated testing and other tools, you need to step on the various plug-in market, do not know whether to use, time and energy consumption;
  • When we encounter daily R & D operation and maintenance problems, we cannot find relevant communities/communities to help solve technical problems. Maybe a trivial problem has bothered us for a long time.
In conjunction with the needs of more than 1,000 developers, we created the IDE plug-in tool Cloud Toolkit to help you solve the above problems. Cloud Toolkit, as a free local IDE plug-in released by Ali Cloud, aims to help developers develop, test, diagnose and deploy applications more efficiently. So far, Cloud Toolkit has been downloaded more than 23W times and has become the common choice of many developers. What makes Cloud Toolkit so popular among developers?

One-click deployment can effectively increase the deployment speed by more than 8 times

Supports standard SSH. You do not need to switch between a series of O&M tools. You only need to select a target server on the GUI to implement rapid application deployment. One-click deployment to any server and cloud (ECS, EDAS, ACK, ACR, small program cloud, etc.), support a variety of servers and mainstream cloud services, effectively reduce the repetitive workload of developers. We only need to worry about improving the code quality of the product, not deployment. Not only the mainstream version of IntelliJ IDEA, but also Eclipse, Pycharm, Maven and others.

Fully cover the functions and services required by the development and deployment process, greatly improving the efficiency of r&d

Built in tools such as Alibaba code specification, Arthas diagnostics, Dubbo tools, Terminal Terminal, file upload, function calculation and MySQL executor. From code management to continuous integration, automated testing and automatic deployment, it covers all development and deployment scenarios without the need to connect with third-party tools, find plug-ins or use tests, and greatly improve r&d efficiency.

The product is free to use, continuous “community support” to ensure smooth use of developers

The product is free to use, “continuous update” to ensure smooth use of developers, continuous increase in functionality, use efficiency. Community support allows timely response to problems. It is not only the technical expert support of Ali Cloud, but also the experience sharing of similar users, so that problems encountered in daily work can be easily solved.

Since the launch of Cloud Toolkit, it has been iterating and upgrading products in accordance with the principle of developer first. The Cloud Toolkit has recently been released with new features and enhancements. Further strengthen the support to developers, to help developers improve work efficiency.

[New features]

  • IDEA edition added deployment support for Kotlin language projects
  • VSCode version adds support for Deploy to Windows
【 Optimization & Enhancement 】

  • VSCode version supports SSH proxy (skip)
  • Deploy to Windows adds support for Freesshd
  • IDEA version fixes ROS module unknown exceptions
  • IDEA version for self-built Kubernetes, the client provides the process of creating a Controller
  • Fixed VSCode version deployment to ECS stuck without Before Command
  • Fixed CPU spike after Dialog is opened after IDEA Deploy to ECS/Host
Next release: Multi-project synchronous deployment & remote server file download

  • [download] (https://www.aliyun.com/product/cloudtoolkit)
  • [offline package] (http://toolkit.aliyun.com/idea/toolkit-intellij-2020.7.1.zip)
  • [directions] (https://developer.aliyun.com/article/665049)
Author: Alibaba Cloud native assistant

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