ACK Virtual Node component and release notes

Version

Image address

Date

Changes

Impact

v2.15.0

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.15.0

August 19, 2025

• New features:

  • Adds support for reserved nodes.

  • Adds support for automatic conversion from the ECI protocol to the ACS protocol.

• Improvements:

  • Reduces the memory footprint by approximately 40%.

  • Improves the success rate of ACS pod creation.

  • Adjust the virtual node's ephemeral storage capacity (ephemeral-storage) to 60000 Ti to prevent scheduling failure.

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixes a scaling issue with ACS GPU pods that occurred after a cloud disk was attached.

  • Fixes failures in in-place container restarts.

  • Fixed an issue where the PodNetworking configuration did not take effect in ACK clusters.

This upgrade does not affect your workloads.

Version

Image address

Update date

Description

Impact

v2.14.6

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.14.6

July 21, 2025

• Fixed a bug that allowed the accidental deletion of PrivateZone records with specific names.

• Fixed an intermittent failure to update the ContainerInstanceCreated condition.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.14.5

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.14.5

July 10, 2025

Reduced local cache latency.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

Version

Image address

Update date

Changes

Impact

v2.14.4

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.14.4

June 15, 2025

• Optimized the virtual node scheduling policy to mark temporary virtual nodes and those pending deletion as unschedulable.

• Fixed issues with using PV nodePublishSecretRef in ECI instances.

• Fixed an intermittent issue that caused Pods to get stuck in the Pending state.

• Fixed an issue with ACS instance status updates, introduced in v2.14.3.

This upgrade does not affect your workloads.

v2.14.3

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.14.3

June 11, 2025

• Fixed an intermittent issue that caused Pods to remain in the Pending state after multiple creation retries.

• Fixed an issue, introduced in v2.14.0, that prevented the deletion of completed ACS instances.

• Fixed an issue where failed Pod status updates were not retried in extreme cases.

This upgrade does not affect your workloads.

v2.12.8

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.12.8

June 10, 2025

• Fixed an intermittent crash during Pod status updates.

• Fixed a disk creation leak that occurred in some scenarios when using WaitForFirstConsumer.

This upgrade does not affect your workloads.

Version

Image address

Release date

Description

Impact

v2.14.2

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.14.2

May 30, 2025

• Fixed an insufficient permissions issue when mounting a disk to an ACS GPU instance in an ACK cluster.

• Fixed memory leaks and startup failures in the log controller.

• Improved the retry mechanism for failed pod creations.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.14.1

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.14.1

May 21, 2025

• Fixed an instance deletion failure in v2.14.0 on ACK dedicated clusters and ACK One registered clusters.

• Fixed an issue where the status of a persistent volume claim failed to update after a cloud disk resize.

• Fixed an issue where Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone records for a specific service were repeatedly created and deleted.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

Version

Image address

Release date

Description

Impact

v2.14.0

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.14.0

April 24, 2025

• When a zone fails, the corresponding virtual node is automatically marked as unschedulable.

• ACS instances now support the cluster's default time zone.

• ACS instances now support the nodePublishSecretRef configuration for PersistentVolumes (PVs).

• Improved in-place hot configuration changes for CPU resources on ACS instances.

• Improved compatibility between ACK clusters and existing DNS cache configurations.

• Fixed a parsing issue caused by an invalid eci-profile configuration format.

• Fixed a memory leak in the logging module.

• Fixed a disk creation leak related to the WaitForFirstConsumer setting in some scenarios.

This upgrade does not affect your workloads.

Version

Image address

Release date

Description

Impact

v2.13.4

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.13.4

2025-02-14

Optimized the retry rate for scheduling scenarios, such as spreading ACS instances across topology domains.

This update does not affect your services.

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Image address

Release date

Description

Impact

v2.13.2

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.13.2

2025-01-21

• Fixed an intermittent issue where pods remained in the Pending state in scheduling scenarios such as topology spread.

• Fixed an issue where ACS pods were updated unnecessarily in some scenarios.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.13.1

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.13.1

2025-01-14

• Fixed an intermittent issue where pods remained in the Pending state when creating a large number of ACS pods.

• Fixed an issue where ACS pod creation was not retried after a 'disk in use' error.

• Fixed an issue where an ACS pod's specification kept increasing during creation retries.

• Fixed exceptions with exec, attach, and port-forward operations on ACS pods.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.12.6

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.12.6

2025-01-14

• Fixed an issue where pods could not be updated after creation in scheduling scenarios, such as topology spread.

• Fixed an issue where pods remained in the Pending state due to SidecarSet authorization.

• Fixed an issue where the pod status was updated unnecessarily in specific scenarios.

• Fixed an issue where ECI instance startup failures were not propagated to the pod.

• Fixed an issue where ImageCache resources were deleted by the kubectl delete all command.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.13.0

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.13.0

2025-01-04

• Added support for ACS computing power.

• Added support for volume-related metrics.

• Fixed an issue with using WaitForFirstConsumer when the managed csi-provisioner component is installed in an ACK cluster.

• Improved the efficiency of pod log retrieval when ACS pods and ECI instances are deleted.

• Improved pod deletion efficiency.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

Version

Image address

Release date

Description

Impact

v2.12.4

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.12.4

2024-12-04

• Fixed a rare issue where a pod failed to associate with an elastic container instance, causing the pod to get stuck in the Pending state.

• Fixed an issue where the WaitForFirstConsumer binding mode was unavailable in the Heyuan ACDR Auto region.

No impact on workloads.

v2.12.3

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.12.3

2024-12-04

Fixed a performance issue when multiple pods mounted the same PVC.

No impact on workloads.

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Image address

Release date

Description

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v2.12.2

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.12.2

2024-11-08

• Fixed an issue where the eci-profile selector was ignored when using a SidecarSet.

• Fixed incorrect metric timestamps.

No impact on workloads.

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Image address

Release date

Description

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v2.12.1

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.12.1

2024-09-12

• Update the virtual node's capacity.pods to 50000.

• Fixed an issue where the stats/summary for virtual nodes included deleted Pods.

• Fixed a bug that incorrectly updated nodes with the virtual- prefix.

This update does not affect your services.

Version

Image address

Release date

Description

Impact

v2.12.0

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.12.0

August 2, 2024

• Added support for Kubernetes 1.30.

• Optimized Pod creation time on virtual nodes in large-scale scenarios.

• Fixed an issue that caused the same volume to be repeatedly injected into a Pod within a SidecarSet.

• Fixed an issue that caused the occasional loss of update operations during Pod creation.

• Fixed an issue causing Pods to occasionally fail with a MissingParameter error in large-scale scenarios.

• Fixed an issue that caused some events to be lost during Pod deletion in extreme cases.

This update does not affect your workloads.

Version

Image address

Release date

Description

Impact

v2.11.6

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.11.6

2024-06-14

• Fixed the loss of read/write metrics for container-level partitions.

• Optimized for large-scale Pod scenarios:

  • Reduced virtual node startup time.

  • Reduced memory usage for metrics collection on virtual nodes.

No impact on workloads.

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Image address

Release date

Description

Impact

v2.11.5

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.11.5

2024-05-07

• Fixed a bug where the container label was missing from some monitoring data in versions v2.11.0 to v2.11.4.

• Optimized virtual node startup time in large-scale pod scenarios.

This upgrade does not affect your workloads.

Version

Image address

Release date

Description

Impact

v2.11.4

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.11.4

2024-04-17

• Fixed an issue in versions v2.11.0 to v2.11.3 where monitoring data for file systems mounted to pods was lost.

• Virtual nodes in ACK One fleet instances now support hosting via Simple Log Service.

No impact on workloads.

Version

Image address

Release date

Description

Impact

v2.11.3

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.11.3

2024-03-18

• Fixed an issue with Application Real-Time Monitoring Service (ARMS) in the China (Hangzhou) Finance region.

• Improved performance for batch pod creation on a virtual node.

This upgrade does not impact your workloads.

v2.10.8

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.8

2024-03-12

• Fixed request failures to port 10250 in an ACK Dedicated Cluster.

• Optimized the virtual node cleanup logic in extreme cases to enhance self-healing.

This upgrade does not impact your workloads.

Version

Image address

Release date

Description

Impact

v2.11.0

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.11.0

2024-02-02

• New features

  • Supports creating Windows instances.

  • Kubernetes-native scheduling now supports Windows nodes.

  • You can now enable the SysOM feature for Elastic Container Instance (ECI) to gain observability into resources, such as the kernel.

  • Supports Container Network File System (CNFS).

  • Supports ephemeral volumes.

  • Supports ephemeral containers.

  • Introduced notifications for the graceful shutdown of preemptible instances.

• Optimization

  • Optimized certificate generation when creating ECI Pods.

  • The metrics query API now supports filtering by NodeName.

• Fixes

  • Fixed a null pointer exception in the ImageCacheController.

  • Fixed an issue that caused duplicate metrics for some containers on a virtual node.

This update does not affect your services.

Version

Image address

Release date

Description

Impact

v2.10.7

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.7

2024-01-26

Optimized virtual node registration and fixed related regional cache issues.

No impact on workloads.

v2.10.6

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.6

2024-01-23

Fixed a virtual node startup failure caused by misconfigured selectors in the eci-profile ConfigMap.

No impact on workloads.

v2.10.5

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.5

2024-01-03

Fixed frequent endpoint updates in metrics sharding mode.

No impact on workloads.

Version

Image address

Release date

Description

Impact

v2.10.4

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.4

2023-11-27

• Fixed performance degradation when creating records in Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone.

• Fixed an issue where an existing Simple Log Service project was not recognized during cluster creation.

• Fixed an issue that caused restarts when clearing a certificate signing request (CSR) in specific scenarios.

• Fixed a case-sensitivity issue with the OperatingSystem=Linux label.

This update does not affect your services.

v2.10.3

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.3

2023-11-14

• Fixed an issue that prevented record creation for some new services when repeatedly enabling Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone.

• Fixed an issue where some PVC resize requests were ignored when the PVC controller was repeatedly enabled.

• Fixed partial data loss when retrieving metrics.

This update does not affect your services.

v2.10.2

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.2

2023-11-10

Fixed a crash caused by a network policy configuration.

This update does not affect your services.

v2.10.1

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.1

2023-11-06

Fixed an issue where dynamically enabling a SidecarSet required ack-kruise to be installed.

This update does not affect your services.

Version

Image address

Release date

Description

Impact

v2.10.0

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.0

October 30, 2023

• New features

  • For clusters running Kubernetes 1.22 or later, elastic workloads now support Kubernetes scheduling semantics, such as topology spread constraints, node affinity, and node anti-affinity.

  • Added support for SidecarSet.

  • Added support for NetworkPolicy.

  • Added support for DADI P2P image acceleration.

  • Added support for eBPF DNSCache.

  • Added the container_instance_resource_limits metric, which reports the actual specifications of a container instance.

  • Added support for GPU monitoring 2.0.

• Optimizations

  • Optimized scheduling status synchronization for underlying instances.

  • By default, new virtual nodes in an ACK Serverless cluster no longer include the virtual-kubelet.io/provider label.

  • Accelerated pod binding to virtual nodes.

  • Optimized record handling for headless services in Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone.

  • Improved the retry logic for failed Managed Service for Prometheus installations.

  • Optimized log output.

  • The MetricsVpcNet feature gate is now enabled by default.

• Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where the Usages field in certificates was incorrect.

  • Fixed an issue that allowed pods to be scheduled to a cordoned virtual node.

  • Fixed an intermittent issue that caused pods to get stuck in the Pending state under high load.

This is a non-disruptive upgrade.

Version

Image address

Release date

Description

Impact

v2.9.7

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.9.7

2023-09-01

Fixed a potential system crash caused by the automatic cleanup of Elastic Container Instances following a scheduling failure.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

Version

Image address

Release date

Description

Impact

v2.9.6

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.9.6

2023-08-15

Enhanced the retry mechanism for Managed Service for Prometheus when it fails to start.

No impact on workloads.

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Image address

Release date

Description

Impact

v2.9.5

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.9.5

2023-07-27

Accelerated Pod binding to virtual nodes.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.9.4

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.9.4

2023-07-26

• Enabled the WaitForFirstConsumer feature gate by default.

• Corrected the KUBERNETES_SERVICE_PORT_HTTPS environment variable for Pods.

• Fixed outdated Arm inventory information.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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Image address

Release date

Description

Impact

v2.9.3

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.9.3

2023-06-21

• Added full support for Arm-based nodes in ACK clusters.

• Fixed an issue where workloads on Arm-based nodes could not reference the NodeName field using the downward API.

• Fixed an issue in version v2.9.x that prevented setting custom labels and annotations on nodes.

• Fixed a component crash caused by the -disable-taint command-line parameter.

• Fixed an issue where the --node-arch command-line parameter did not take effect.

• Fixed an issue where enabling the WaitForFirstConsumer feature caused Pods to get stuck in the Pending state in some cases.

This update does not affect your services.

v2.9.2

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.9.2

2023-04-28

Fixed an issue where Pods could not be scheduled to virtual nodes in ACK Basic clusters.

This update does not affect your services.

v2.9.1

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.9.1

2023-04-20

• Fixed an issue that caused virtual nodes to repeatedly disconnect and reconnect.

• Fixed a status synchronization issue for failed instances in Fail Fast mode.

• Optimized headless Service behavior in Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone.

This update does not affect your services.

v2.8.8

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.8.8

2023-04-27

Fixed an issue that caused Pods to restart upon component restart in some cases.

This update does not affect your services.

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Image address

Release date

Description

Impact

v2.9.0

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.9.0

2023-03-30

• Added support for Arm-based nodes in ACK Serverless clusters.

• Added support for creating a new type of elastic container instance with the acs-visible-only attribute.

• Added the ContainerInstanceCreated condition to indicate the creation status of the underlying instance.

• Added the container_spec_cpu_shares metric.

• Improved the pod update logic, reducing unnecessary updates to underlying instances.

• Improved the installation and uninstallation logic and failure messages for the managed Prometheus component.

• Improved the configuration logic and failure messages for DNSConfig.

• Improved the event and state synchronization for underlying elastic container instances.

• Improved the scheduling logic for scenarios where Pod.Spec.NodeName is manually specified.

• Updated the default number of log lines to 500.

• Fixed an issue that prevented exec or attach operations on pods in the Pending state.

This update does not affect your services.

v2.8.5

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.8.5

2023-03-02

Fixed a rare instance leak.

This update does not affect your services.

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Image address

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Description

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v2.8.4

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.8.4

2022-12-27

• Optimized the fail-fast mode.

• Fixed an intermittent issue where the pod status could revert.

• Fixed an issue where Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone could not resolve headless service domain names.

• Fixed a potential resource leak when deleting a pod with the GracePeriod=0 parameter.

No impact on workloads.

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Image address

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Description

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v2.8.3

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.8.3

2022-11-25

• Fixed an issue with incorrect Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone records when a cluster domain name was enabled.

• Prevented built-in environment variables from overwriting user-defined ones.

• Fixed an issue where only the first ImagePullSecret took effect when multiple were configured.

• Fixed a crash caused by an unavailable APIService.

This update does not affect your services.

v2.8.1

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.8.1

2022-11-21

• Corrected the display of CPU utilization metrics.

• Improved the display of the Reason field when pod creation fails.

• Added automatic retries for pod creation on MissingParameter errors.

This update does not affect your services.

v2.8.0

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.8.0

2022-11-21

• Added support for pod networking.

• Added metrics for dynamic PVC expansion.

• Fixed an error in Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone caused by an empty ServiceName in a StatefulSet.

• Fixed an issue that prevented ZoneRecord deletion in Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone when many endpoints existed.

• Fixed an issue where the ContainerDiskPressure condition frequently reported False.

• Fixed the generation of ErrPodNotFound events for pods in the Terminating state.

This update does not affect your services.

v2.7.5

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.7.5

2022-11-07

Fixed an issue with the cleanup of RBAC resources from v2.7.4.

This update does not affect your services.

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v2.7.4

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.7.4

2022-10-28

• Improved pod creation speed.

• Fixed an issue where idempotent pod creation occasionally failed.

This upgrade does not affect your workloads.

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Description

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v2.7.3

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.7.3

2022-09-28

Fixed a bug that prevented registered node annotations from updating.

No impact on workloads.

v2.7.2

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.7.2

2022-09-13

• Fixed occasional failures in idempotent pod creation.

• Fixed a bug that stopped alert notifications when logging was enabled via eci-profile.

No impact on workloads.

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v2.7.1

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.7.1

2022-08-17

Fixed a rare issue where pod creation failed.

No impact on workloads.

v2.7.0

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.7.0

2022-08-02

• Enabled installation of the managed logging component.

• Enabled installation of managed Prometheus.

• Enabled reporting of exceptions from underlying ECI instances.

• Optimized the idempotent creation of ECI instances.

• Optimized the binding of pods to nodes.

No impact on workloads.

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v2.6.1

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.6.1

2022-07-05

Fixed a rare issue that caused the component to hang during startup.

This update does not affect your services.

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v2.6.0

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.6.0

2022-06-16

• New features:

  • Added support for custom Kubelet service ports.

  • Added support for pod readiness gates in Kubernetes 1.16.

  • Added support for CSI Node in Kubernetes 1.16.

  • Added support for creating a cloud disk from a disk snapshot with the WaitForFirstConsumer binding mode.

  • Added support for the NodeName field in the downward API.

• Fixed issues:

  • Fixed a bug where the labels configured in eci-profile did not take effect.

  • Fixed a bug where the TTL for a user's Logstore was overwritten.

  • Fixed a bug where error logs were sent to a user's Logstore.

• Optimizations:

  • Optimized client-go local cache synchronization.

  • Optimized the registration and update logic for virtual nodes.

  • Optimized the ECI event reporting mechanism.

  • Reduced the HTTP request body size.

This upgrade does not affect your workloads.

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v2.5.4

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.5.4

2022-05-20

Fixed a component crash that occurred when configuring eci-profile with selectors.

This upgrade does not affect your workload.

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v2.5.3

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.5.3

2022-04-28

• Fixed a rare crash that occurred when retrieving metrics data.

• Fixed a rare issue that prevented pods from connecting to the api server.

No impact on workloads.

v2.5.2

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.5.2

2022-04-20

• Fixed an issue where PrivateZone failed to enable.

• Fixed a hanging issue with exec on Kubernetes 1.16 clusters.

• Fixed an issue that prevented metrics data retrieval.

• Fixed a potential synchronization issue between status and events.

No impact on workloads.

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v2.5.1

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.5.1

2022-03-31

• Added support for configuring the retention duration of the image cache.

• Improved API server request performance.

• Improved Pod creation performance at scale.

• Reduced metrics data retrieval latency.

• Fixed memory spikes during concurrent metrics requests.

• Fixed an issue where duplicate metrics data was returned.

• Fixed an issue where the/metrics and/metrics/cadvisor endpoints returned the same data.

• Fixed an issue that prevented the SecretRef for the Container Storage Interface (CSI) from taking effect.

• Fixed crashes and failures withlogs andexec commands.

• Enabled the component to run in environments without public network access.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.4.3

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.4.3

2022-03-17

Fixedlogs andexec failures in Kubernetes 1.16 clusters.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.4.2

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.4.2

2022-01-11

• Fixed an issue causing status inconsistencies between a cluster and an Elastic Container Instance.

• Fixed an issue that prevented Prometheus monitoring from retrieving data.

• Fixed an issue where some annotations in an Elastic Container Instance Profile failed to take effect.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.4.0

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.4.0

2021-12-28

• Added support for Kubernetes 1.22.

• Added support for dynamic expansion of PVCs.

• Added support for the WaitForFirstConsumer volume binding mode.

• Improved ECI API call efficiency.

• Fixed an incorrect virtual node version after a cluster upgrade.

• Fixed intermittent status inconsistencies in Job pods.

• Fixed intermittent status inconsistencies between cluster pods and ECI pods.

• Fixed an intermittent issue where the SecretRef configuration for CephFS and FlexVolume failed to take effect.

• Fixed an intermittent annotation-related crash.

No impact on workloads.

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v2.3.0

registry-vpc.$RegionID.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.3.0

2021-11-15

• Added support for service account token volume projection.

• Added support for IPv4/IPv6 dual stack.

• Added support for setting different overlay network types.

• Fixed a crash that occurred in some cases.

• Optimized pod creation speed.

• Fixed pod scheduling issues.

• Fixed slow ECI instance reclamation.

This upgrade does not affect your workloads.

Version

Image address

Release date

Description

Impact

v2.2.0

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.2.0

2021-10-26

Improved query speed for events and statuses.

This update does not affect your services.

v2.1.0

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.1.0

2021-10-12

This update does not affect your services.

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v2.0.0.122-bdb884460-aliyun

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.122-bdb884460-aliyun

2021-05-24

Fixed an issue that caused repeated node creation during concurrent requests.

This update has no impact on your workloads.

v2.0.0.113-650b21c48-aliyun

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.113-650b21c48-aliyun

2021-05-13

Added support for hot updates to PrivateZone.

This update has no impact on your workloads.

v2.0.0.110-49c928287-aliyun

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.110-49c928287-aliyun

2021-05-06

Added support for node selector scheduling. This allows Virtual Kubelet to manage any pod labeled with type=virtual-kubelet.

This update has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.0.0.102-045a06eb4-aliyun

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.102-045a06eb4-aliyun

2021-04-22

Fixed a display issue with virtual nodes.

No impact on workloads.

v2.0.0.101-cd8bcfa04-aliyun

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.101-cd8bcfa04-aliyun

2021-04-16

Optimized API calls to PrivateZone to avoid repeated calls to BindZoneVpc.

No impact on workloads.

v2.0.0.93-ef86bbfa1-aliyun

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.93-ef86bbfa1-aliyun

2021-04-13

Modified eciLogtailMacheineGroupKey to support log collection for environment variables and CustomResourceDefinitions (CRDs).

No impact on workloads.

v2.0.0.90-15deb126e-aliyun

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.90-15deb126e-aliyun

2021-04-06

Added support for ECI Profile.

For more information, see Configure ECI Profile.

No impact on workloads.

Version

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Description

Impact

v2.0.0.86-9005a977d-aliyun

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.86-9005a977d-aliyun

2021-03-17

• Updated the /etc/hosts file to support Domain and DNS annotations.

• Reduced the check time for ClusterRoleBinding.

• Optimized the leader election mechanism for multiple components.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

Version

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v2.0.0.80-f9a46a994-aliyun

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.80-f9a46a994-aliyun

2021-02-25

Improved the status check logic to create a Pod only when its status is Pending.

This update does not affect your workloads.

v2.0.0.76-6e9e19bd5-aliyun

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.76-6e9e19bd5-aliyun

2021-02-22

• Added support for PProf debugging.

• Added a switch to control leader election.

• Updated the ClusterRole for EndPointSlice.

• Added a Kubernetes version annotation to Pods.

• Enabled configuring different webhooks for different Kubernetes versions.

This update does not affect your workloads.

Version

Image address

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Description

Impact

v2.0.0.618-7fd50d738-aliyun

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.618-7fd50d738-aliyun

2020-12-04

• Improved pod compatibility.

• Supports leader election for multiple Virtual Kubelet controllers.

Ensure that your VPCs and security groups are correctly configured to allow ECI pods to access the API server of your cluster. Otherwise, the pods remain in the Waiting state.

Version

Image address

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Description

Impact

v1.0.0.10-aliyun

registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v1.0.0.10-aliyun

2020-09-21

Application Pods can now run as serverless containers on Elastic Container Instance (ECI) to extend cluster elasticity.

This update does not affect your services.

Version

Image address

Release date

Description

Impact

v1.0.0.2-aliyun

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v1.0.0.2-aliyun

2020-03-12

• Added support for deploying the virtual-nodes-eci controller as a StatefulSet. You can now modify the number of replicas to create multiple virtual nodes and support more ECI pods.

• node names are now in the virtual-node-eci-$n format.

• Added support for accessing ClusterIP services.

• Added support for preemptible instances.

• Added support for mounting disk volumes using CSI.

If your virtual-nodes-eci controller is deployed as a deployment, first delete the ECI pods on the virtual-kubelet node, and then update or redeploy the component.