You can access the StreamNative Cloud product through Alibaba Cloud Marketplace. If you already have an Alibaba Cloud account, you can get started by subscribing to the StreamNative Cloud product in Alibaba Cloud Marketplace as detailed below. After subscribing and connecting your Alibaba Cloud account to your StreamNative Cloud account, you can view and pay your bills on the Billing Dashboard in your Alibaba Cloud account. This subscription uses a Pay-As-You-Go billing model, so your bills will vary depending on usage.

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Prerequisites

To use this service, you must complete the following:

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Procedures

This section describes how to get up and running with StreamNative Cloud on Alibaba Cloud Marketplace using a self-service Pay-As-You-Go account.

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Subscribe to the StreamNative Cloud service

To get up and running with StreamNative Cloud on Alibaba Cloud Marketplace using a self-service Pay-As-You-Go account:
  1. Go to Alibaba Cloud Marketplace.
  2. Review the product information and click Activate Now. Product overview of StreamNative Cloud service on Alibaba Cloud marketplace
  3. Select the option toe agree to the community agreement and click OK
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  1. Once the request for activation is successfully submitted, you will see a confirmation message. Click OK in the confirmation message to navigate to the subscription details.
alibaba-activation-submitted.png After getting redirected you must see the page which says ‘My Software Subscription’ as shown below view-alibaba-subscription.png
  1. Click on Auto Login as shown in the picture above to automatically get redirected back to the StreamNative Cloud Console. This step also connects your Alibaba Cloud marketplace account to your StreamNative account.
Currently, you can’t link your Alibaba Cloud subscription to an existing organization on StreamNative Console. To bind to an existing organization, submit a ticket with this request to the support team.

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Create your organization

Depending on your StreamNative Cloud account setup, do one of the followings:
  • If you haven’t not created an organization yet, enter a name for your first organization and follow the prompts to complete the setup of your organization.
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  • If you have already created at least one organization, on the Organization page, click Create organization, enter a name for your new organization, and click Create.

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Create your Pulsar instance and Pulsar cluster

For Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) users, contact your StreamNative sales to get your BYOC pool members provisioned before continuing to create your Pulsar instance and cluster.
  1. Navigate to the organization that you just created.
  2. Click the name of your new organization, and then click create instance at the end of the row of the organization that you have just created.
  3. On the Instance page, click CREATE INSTANCE.
  4. Click Deploy Dedicated to start the instance creation process on StreamNative Cloud. Alternatively, you can click Deploy Serverless to create a Serverless cluster or click Deploy BYOC to create a BYOC cluster.
  5. On the Instance Configuration page, enter a name for your instance, select the Alibaba Cloud infrastructure pool, and select the multi Availability Zone (AZ). The instance name starts with a lowercase letter, contains any combination of lowercase letters (a-z), numbers (0-9), and hyphens (-), and must be 4-10 characters.
  6. Click Cluster Location to start the cluster creation process.
  7. On the Cluster Location page, enter a name for your cluster, select the cluster location, and then click Cluster Size. The cluster name starts with a lowercase letter, contains any combination of lowercase letters (a-z), numbers (0-9), and hyphens (-), and must be 4-10 characters.
  8. On the Cluster Size page, configure the cluster, and then click Payment.
    • On the Basic tab, select custom sizing options.
    • On the Advanced tab, in the Features area, enable the cluster features you want on your cluster.
It may take several minutes for the instance and cluster creation process to complete.