ACK Virtual Node add-on overview and release notes

Version

Image address

Release date

Changes

Impact

v2.19.0

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.19.0

September 30, 2026

• Optimizations:

  • Improved the robustness of resource cleanup during pod deletion.

  • Improved the robustness of pod garbage collection (GC).

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed a certificate private key caching issue.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.18.4

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.18.4

September 30, 2026

• Optimizations:

  • Improved add-on log output.

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed an issue where the instance subscription failed to reconnect.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.18.3

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.18.3

September 22, 2026

• Optimizations:

  • Reduced the time required for eci-profile and acs-profile changes to take effect.

  • Changed the default ephemeral storage size to 15 Gi.

  • Reduced add-on memory usage.

  • Improved add-on log output.

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed an issue where PVC (PersistentVolumeClaim) expansion could become stuck.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.18.2

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.18.2

September 9, 2026

• New features:

  • Added support for economy compute quality for ACS pods.

  • Added support for in-place memory vertical scaling (InPlaceVerticalScaling) for ACS pods.

• Optimizations:

  • Improved pod DNS configuration.

  • Improved pod deletion efficiency.

  • Improved pod-to-node binding efficiency.

  • Improved add-on startup efficiency.

  • Reduced add-on memory usage.

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed an intermittent crash.

  • Fixed an incorrect PPU890 memory ratio.

  • Fixed an issue where pods could be unexpectedly deleted during startup.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.17.6

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.17.6

September 7, 2026

• Optimizations:

  • Improved pod deletion efficiency.

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed an intermittent crash.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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Image address

Release date

Changes

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v2.18.1

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.18.1

July 28, 2026

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed an intermittent failure to wake ACS compute resources.

  • Fixed an issue where PodNetworking did not take effect in ACS clusters.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.17.5

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.17.5

July 27, 2026

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed an intermittent failure to wake ACS compute resources.

  • Fixed an issue where PodNetworking did not take effect in ACS clusters.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.18.0

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.18.0

July 10, 2026

• New features:

  • Added support for in-place restart of ACS pods.

  • Added support for ACS compute resources in the China (Hangzhou) Finance Cloud region.

  • Added support for local disks on reserved nodes.

• Optimizations:

  • Improved pod-to-node binding efficiency.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.17.4

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.17.4

July 8, 2026

• Optimizations:

  • Improved pod authentication efficiency.

  • Improved pod update comparison efficiency.

  • Improved the API server address used by pods.

  • Reduced memory usage for pod metrics.

  • Improved handling of batch query errors caused by an oversized PodTemplate.

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed an issue where failed wake-up operations were not retried in extreme cases.

  • Fixed an issue where Sandbox instance certificates became invalid in extreme cases.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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Image address

Release date

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v2.17.3

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.17.3

June 5, 2026

• Optimizations:

  • Reduced pod creation latency at scale.

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed an issue where an instance being woken up could be deleted in extreme cases.

  • Fixed an issue introduced in v2.17.0 where a pod with an excessively long name remained in the Terminating state for an extended period.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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Image address

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v2.17.2

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.17.2

May 8, 2026

• New features:

  • Added automatic retries for pod creation when the ImageCache.NotReady error occurs.

• Optimizations:

  • Changed the maximum number of metric shards to 48.

  • Improved error messages when hibernation or wake-up operations are unsupported by the current compute type.

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed an issue where disk scaling settings did not take effect.

  • Fixed an issue where ACS instances were repeatedly woken up in extreme cases.

  • Fixed an issue where the cause of an ACS instance wake-up failure was missing in some scenarios.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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Image address

Release date

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v2.17.1

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.17.1

April 3, 2026

• Fixed an issue in v2.16.3 and later where some ECI-based pods in the terminal Failed or Succeeded state could not be deleted.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.16.6

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.16.6

April 3, 2026

• Fixed an issue in v2.16.3 and later where some ECI-based pods in the terminal Failed or Succeeded state could not be deleted.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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Image address

Release date

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v2.17.0

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.17.0

March 28, 2026

• Added support for new Agent Sandbox compute types, hibernation, and wake-up capabilities.

• Added support for Windows containers on ACS.

• Added support for ACS ephemeral storage extension.

• Added support for the BMCPFS storage driver.

• Added support for the G28Ti, L20N, and L20NE GPU models.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.16.5

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.16.5

March 20, 2026

• Improved pod update efficiency at scale.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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Image address

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v2.16.4

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.16.4

February 26, 2026

• Improved pod creation efficiency at scale.

• Improved pod-to-node binding efficiency at scale.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.16.3

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.16.3

February 5, 2026

• Optimizations:

  • Improved add-on startup efficiency for large-scale clusters.

  • Improved pod deletion efficiency for large-scale clusters.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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Image address

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v2.16.2

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.16.2

January 28, 2026

• Optimizations:

  • Improved the retry mechanism for pod creation requests on virtual nodes when the quota is exceeded.

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed an intermittent issue where pods on virtual nodes remained Pending because Unschedulable reserved nodes existed.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.16.1

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.16.1

January 27, 2026

• Optimizations:

  • Improved management of the add-on's internal HTTP connection pool.

  • Improved pod creation performance at scale in v2.16.0 and reduced startup time.

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed an intermittent issue where pods remained Pending in extreme cases.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.16.0

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.16.0

January 6, 2026

• New features:

  • Enabled the pod capacity feature for virtual nodes by default.

  • Added support for PodNetworking on ACS compute resources.

  • Added support for ACS compute resources to reference cross-namespace resources through NodePublishSecretRef.

  • Added support for enabling CSINode on reserved nodes.

  • Added support for sending event notifications while reserved nodes self-heal.

  • Added support for displaying the InterruptionHardwareFault condition on pods running on ACS GPU instances and reserved nodes.

• Optimizations:

  • Improved add-on startup speed at scale.

  • Improved the success rate of instance cleanup in extreme cases.

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed an issue where reserved nodes could enter the NotReady state in specific scenarios.

  • Fixed an issue where pod conditions could be unexpectedly overwritten in extreme cases.

  • Fixed an authorization issue that could occur when SidecarSet injection is used with ACS compute resources.

  • Fixed an issue where the Instance.ToBeReleased condition was not displayed correctly on ACS compute instances.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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Image address

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v2.15.8

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.15.8

December 8, 2025

• Optimizations:

  • Improved local Informer cache expiration handling.

  • Improved processing speed for pods in a terminal state.

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed an issue where SidecarSet pod permissions were revoked.

  • Fixed an issue where conditions were overwritten in extreme cases.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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Image address

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v2.15.7

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.15.7

November 26, 2025

• Optimizations:

  • Improved the rate-limiting retry mechanism.

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed an issue where reserved node IP addresses were not updated.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.15.6

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.15.6

November 5, 2025

• Optimizations:

  • Improved ACS instance resource normalization.

  • Improved the error message when pods on reserved nodes use an unsupported ComputeClass.

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed an issue where the local Informer cache did not expire in time.

  • Fixed an issue where a pod's Annotation could be inconsistent with the definition in its Spec after an in-place resource change (InPlace VPA).

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.15.5

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.15.5

October 20, 2025

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed an issue where reserved node IP addresses were missing in ACS clusters.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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Image address

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v2.15.4

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.15.4

September 28, 2025

• Optimizations:

  • Improved the error message when DaemonSet pods are scheduled to virtual nodes.

  • Improved recovery efficiency for GPU pods in an abnormal state in ACS clusters.

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed an intermittent issue where ACS pod status was not updated.

  • Fixed an issue where reserved node IP addresses were missing in ACS clusters.

  • Fixed an intermittent crash when CNFS volumes were used.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.15.3

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.15.3

September 28, 2025

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed an issue where pods remained Pending for a long time in extreme cases.

  • Fixed an issue where pods could not enter terminal states such as Succeeded or Failed in extreme cases.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.15.2

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.15.2

September 22, 2025

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed an issue where ACS resource normalization did not take effect in v2.15.0.

  • Fixed an inaccurate KubeletVersion field on reserved nodes.

  • Fixed local cached data expiration caused by delayed API server pushes.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.15.1

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.15.1

September 9, 2025

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed pod creation failure when an Annotation specifies a vSwitch.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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Image address

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v2.15.0

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

August 19, 2025

• New features:

  • Added support for reserved nodes.

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

• Optimizations:

  • Reduced memory usage by approximately 40%.

  • Improved the success rate of ACS pod creation.

  • Changed virtual node ephemeral storage capacity (ephemeral-storage) to 60000 Ti to prevent scheduling failures.

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed an issue where cloud disks mounted on ACS GPU pods could not be expanded.

  • Fixed in-place container restart failures.

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

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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Image address

Release date

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v2.14.6

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

July 21, 2025

• Fixed an issue where PrivateZone records with certain names were deleted.

• Fixed an intermittent issue where the ContainerInstanceCreated condition was not updated.

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.

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v2.14.4

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

June 15, 2025

• Optimized virtual node scheduling to mark temporary virtual nodes and virtual nodes being deleted as Unschedulable.

• Fixed issues with using PV nodePublishSecretRef in ECI instances.

• Fixed an intermittent issue where pods remained Pending in exceptional cases.

• Fixed an ACS instance status update issue introduced in v2.14.3.

This upgrade has no impact on 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 where pods remained Pending after multiple creation retries.

• Fixed an issue introduced in v2.14.0 where completed ACS instances could not be deleted.

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

This upgrade has no impact on 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 when updating pod status.

• Fixed a disk creation leak in some scenarios that used WaitForFirstConsumer.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.14.2

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

May 30, 2025

• Fixed insufficient permissions when mounting a cloud 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 creation.

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 instance deletion failures in v2.14.0 in ACK dedicated clusterACK dedicated cluster and registered clusterACK One registered cluster.

• Fixed an issue where PVC status was not updated after cloud disk expansion.

• Fixed an issue where PrivateZone DNS records for a particular Service were repeatedly created and deleted.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.14.0

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

April 24, 2025

• Added automatic marking of the virtual node as Unschedulable when a zone fails.

• Added support for the default cluster time zone on ACS instances.

• Added support for the PV nodePublishSecretRef configuration on ACS instances.

• Improved in-place hot resource configuration changes for ACS instance CPU resources.

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

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

• Fixed a memory leak in the logging module.

• Fixed a WaitForFirstConsumer disk creation leak in some scenarios.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.13.4

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

February 14, 2025

• Improved the retry rate in scheduling scenarios such as ACS instance topology spreading.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.13.2

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

January 21, 2025

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

• Fixed invalid ACS instance updates 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

January 14, 2025

• Fixed an intermittent issue where pods remained Pending when creating ACS instances at scale.

• Fixed a missing retry when an ACS instance encountered a disk-in-use error during creation.

• Fixed an issue where ACS instance specifications kept increasing during creation retries.

• Fixed ACS instance exec, attach, and portforward exceptions.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.12.6

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

January 14, 2025

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

• Fixed pods remaining Pending because of SidecarSet authorization.

• Fixed invalid pod status updates in particular scenarios.

• Fixed an issue where ECI instance startup failures were not updated to pods.

• Fixed ImageCache resources being removed by the kubectl command kubectl delete all.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.13.0

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

January 4, 2025

• Added support for ACS compute resources.

• Added volume-related metrics.

• Fixed an issue where WaitForFirstConsumer did not work when the managed csi-provisioner add-on was installed in an ACK cluster.

• Improved pod log retrieval when ACS and ECI instances are deleted.

• Improved pod deletion efficiency.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.12.4

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

December 4, 2024

• Fixed an issue where pods remained Pending when pod-to-instance association failed in extreme cases.

• Fixed an issue where WaitForFirstConsumer did not work in the Heyuan automotive compliance cloud.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.12.3

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

December 4, 2024

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

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.12.2

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

November 8, 2024

• Fixed an issue where the eci-profile selector did not take effect when using SidecarSet.

• Fixed inaccurate metric timestamps.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.12.1

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

September 12, 2024

• Changed virtual node capacity.pods to 50000.

• Fixed an issue where virtual node stats/summary included deleted pods.

• Fixed incorrect updates to nodes with the virtual prefix.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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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.

• Reduced virtual node pod creation time at scale.

• Fixed an issue where the same volume was injected into a pod multiple times in SidecarSet.

• Fixed intermittent loss of update operations during pod creation.

• Fixed intermittent MissingParameter errors for pods at scale.

• Fixed an issue where some events were lost when pods were deleted in extreme cases.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.11.6

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

June 14, 2024

• Fixed missing read/write metrics for container-level partitions.

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

• Reduced memory consumption for virtual node metric collection in large-scale pod scenarios.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.11.5

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

May 7, 2024

• Fixed missing container labels in some monitoring data in v2.11.0 through v2.11.4.

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

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.11.4

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

April 17, 2024

• Fixed missing pod file system (FS) monitoring data in v2.11.0 through v2.11.3.

• Added support for managed Simple Log Service (SLS) on virtual nodes in ACK One fleet clusters.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.11.3

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

March 18, 2024

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

• Improved virtual node batch pod creation performance.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.10.8

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

March 12, 2024

• Fixed port 10250 request failures in ACK dedicated cluster.

• Optimized virtual node cleanup in extreme cases to improve virtual node self-maintenance.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.11.0

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

February 2, 2024

• New features:

  • Added support for Windows instances.

  • Extended Kubernetes-native scheduling semantics to Windows nodes.

  • Added support for enabling ECI SysOM to provide observability for resources such as kernels.

  • Added support for Container Network File System (CNFS).

  • Added support for ephemeral volumes.

  • Added support for ephemeral containers.

  • Added a notification mechanism for graceful shutdown of spot instances.

• Optimizations:

  • Improved certificate generation efficiency when ECI-based pods are created.

  • Added support for NodeName filtering in the metrics query API.

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed an ImageCacheController null pointer issue.

  • Fixed duplicate metrics for some containers on virtual nodes.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.10.7

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

January 26, 2024

• Improved virtual node registration and fixed regional cache errors during registration.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.10.6

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

January 23, 2024

• Fixed a virtual node startup failure caused by an invalid selectors configuration in the eci-profile file.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.10.5

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

January 3, 2024

• Fixed frequent endpoint updates in metrics sharding mode.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.10.4

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

November 27, 2023

• Fixed performance degradation when creating PrivateZone records.

• Fixed an issue where an existing SLS project did not take effect during cluster creation.

• Fixed restarts caused by cleared certificate signing requests (CSRs) in specific scenarios.

• Fixed OperatingSystem=Linux label case incompatibility.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.10.3

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

November 14, 2023

• Fixed an issue where some new Services did not create records when PrivateZone was repeatedly enabled.

• Fixed an issue where some PVC resize requests were not executed when the PVC controller was repeatedly enabled.

• Fixed partial loss when retrieving metrics.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.10.2

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

November 10, 2023

• Fixed crashes caused by NetworkPolicy configurations.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.10.1

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

November 6, 2023

• Fixed dynamically enabling SidecarSet based on whether ack-kruise is installed.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.10.0

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

October 30, 2023

• New features:

  • Added support for Kubernetes scheduling semantics, including topology spreading, node affinity, and node anti-affinity, for elastic workloads in Kubernetes 1.22 and later.

  • 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 for actual container instance specifications.

  • Added support for GPU monitoring 2.0.

• Optimizations:

  • Improved scheduling status synchronization for underlying instances.

  • New virtual nodes in ACK Serverless clusterACK Serverless cluster do not include the virtual-kubelet.io/provider label by default.

  • Improved pod binding to virtual nodes.

  • Improved Headless Service records in PrivateZone.

  • Improved retries for failed Managed Service for Prometheus installations.

  • Improved log output.

  • Enabled the MetricsVpcNet feature gate by default.

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed issues such as incorrect certificate Usages fields.

  • Fixed pods being scheduled to cordoned virtual nodes.

  • Fixed an intermittent issue where pods remained Pending under high load.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.9.7

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

September 1, 2023

• Fixed a system crash caused by automatic cleanup of underlying instances after scheduling failures.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.9.6

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

August 15, 2023

• Improved retries for failed Managed Service for Prometheus add-on startup.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.9.5

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

July 27, 2023

• Improved pod binding speed 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

July 26, 2023

• Enabled the WaitForFirstConsumer feature gate by default.

• Fixed an issue where the KUBERNETES_SERVICE_PORT_HTTPS pod environment variable was set incorrectly.

• Fixed outdated Arm inventory information.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.9.3

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

June 21, 2023

• Added full support for Arm nodes in ACK clusters.

• Fixed an issue where Arm node workloads could not reference NodeName through the DownwardAPI.

• Fixed an issue in v2.9.x that prevented custom node labels and Annotations from being set.

• Fixed a crash caused by configuring 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 WaitForFirstConsumer caused pods to remain Pending in some scenarios.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.9.2

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

April 28, 2023

• Fixed an issue where virtual nodes could not be scheduled in ACK managed Basic clusters.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.8.8

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

April 27, 2023

• Fixed an issue where pods restarted when the add-on restarted in some scenarios.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.9.1

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

April 20, 2023

• Fixed virtual node flapping.

• Fixed instance scheduling failure status not being synchronized in Fail Fast mode.

• Improved Headless Service behavior in PrivateZone.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.9.0

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

March 30, 2023

• Added support for enabling Arm nodes in ACK Serverless clusterACK Serverless clusters.

• Added support for new container instances with the acs-visible-only attribute.

• Added the ContainerInstanceCreated condition to identify underlying instance creation status.

• Added the container_spec_cpu_shares metric.

• Improved pod update logic to reduce invalid updates to underlying instances.

• Improved the installation, uninstallation, and failure messages for Managed Service for Prometheus.

• Improved DNSConfig configuration and failure messages.

• Improved event and status synchronization for underlying container instances.

• Improved scheduling when Pod.Spec.NodeName is manually specified.

• Changed the default log line count to 500.

• Fixed exec and attach failures for pods in the Pending state.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.8.5

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

March 2, 2023

• Fixed instance leaks in extreme cases.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.8.4

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

December 27, 2022

• Improved Fail Fast mode.

• Fixed an intermittent pod status rollback.

• Fixed an issue where PrivateZone could not resolve Headless Service domain names.

• Fixed a potential resource leak when deleting pods with GracePeriod=0.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.8.3

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

November 25, 2022

• Fixed incorrect PrivateZone records when a local domain name was enabled.

• Fixed built-in environment variables overwriting user-defined environment variables.

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

• Fixed crashes when APIService was unavailable.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.8.1

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

November 21, 2022

• Fixed CPU load metric display.

• Improved Reason information displayed when pod creation fails.

• Added automatic retries for pod creation when the error code is MissingParameter.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.8.0

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

November 21, 2022

• Added support for PodNetworking.

• Added metrics for PVC dynamic expansion.

• Fixed PrivateZone errors caused by an empty StatefulSet ServiceName.

• Fixed ZoneRecord deletion failures in PrivateZone with a large number of Endpoints.

• Fixed frequent ContainerDiskPressure=False reports.

• Fixed ErrPodNotFound events reported while pods are Terminating.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.7.5

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

November 7, 2022

• Fixed uncleaned RBAC resources in v2.7.4.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.7.4

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

October 28, 2022

• Improved pod creation speed.

• Fixed occasional failures during idempotent pod creation.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.7.3

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

September 28, 2022

• Fixed registered node Annotation updates.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.7.2

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

September 13, 2022

• Fixed intermittent failures during idempotent pod creation.

• Fixed alert delivery failures when logging was enabled through eci-profile.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.7.1

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

August 17, 2022

• Fixed intermittent pod creation failures.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.7.0

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

August 2, 2022

• Added support for installing the managed logging add-on.

• Added support for installing Managed Service for Prometheus.

• Added support for reporting underlying ECI instance failures.

• Improved idempotent ECI instance creation.

• Improved pod-to-node binding.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.6.1

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

July 5, 2022

• Fixed intermittent hangs during startup.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.6.0

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

June 16, 2022

• New features:

  • Added support for custom kubelet service ports.

  • Added support for Pod Readiness Gates in Kubernetes 1.16.

  • Added support for CSINode in Kubernetes 1.16.

  • Added support for creating cloud disks from disk snapshots with WaitForFirstConsumer.

  • Added support for NodeName DownwardAPI.

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed an issue where labels in the eci-profile configuration did not take effect.

  • Fixed user Logstore TTL being overwritten.

  • Fixed error logs being sent to user Logstore.

• Optimizations:

  • Improved client-go local cache synchronization.

  • Improved virtual node registration and update logic.

  • Improved ECI event reporting.

  • Reduced HTTP request body size.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.5.4

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

May 20, 2022

• Fixed an issue where configuring eci-profile with selectors caused a crash.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.5.3

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

April 28, 2022

• Fixed intermittent crashes when retrieving metrics.

• Fixed intermittent failures for pods connecting to the API server.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.5.2

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

April 20, 2022

• Fixed PrivateZone enablement failures.

• Fixed exec hangs on Kubernetes 1.16 clusters.

• Fixed failures to retrieve metrics.

• Fixed potential status and event synchronization issues.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.5.1

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

March 31, 2022

• Added support for configuring image cache retention duration.

• Improved API server request performance.

• Improved large-scale pod creation speed.

• Reduced metric retrieval latency.

• Fixed memory spikes caused by concurrent metric requests.

• Fixed duplicate metric data returned.

• Fixed /metrics and /metrics/cadvisor returning the same data.

• Fixed CSI SecretRef not taking effect.

• Fixed logs and exec failures and crashes.

• Fixed failures 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

March 17, 2022

• Fixed logs and exec failures on 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

January 11, 2022

• Fixed cluster and ECI status inconsistencies.

• Fixed Prometheus monitoring data retrieval failures.

• Fixed some ECI Profile Annotations not taking 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

December 28, 2021

• Added support for Kubernetes 1.22.

• Added support for PVC dynamic expansion.

• Added support for the WaitForFirstConsumer volume binding mode.

• Improved ECI API invocation efficiency.

• Fixed incorrect virtual node versions after cluster upgrades.

• Fixed intermittent Job pod status inconsistencies.

• Fixed intermittent inconsistencies between cluster pods and ECI-based pods.

• Fixed intermittent CephFS and Flexvolume SecretRef failures.

• Fixed intermittent Annotation-related crashes.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.3.0

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

November 15, 2021

• Added support for service account token volume projection.

• Added support for IP dual-stack mode.

• Added support for setting different overlay network types.

• Fixed crashes in some scenarios.

• Improved pod creation speed.

• Fixed pod scheduling issues.

• Fixed slow ECI instance reclamation.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.2.0

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

October 26, 2021

• Improved event and status query speed.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.1.0

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

October 12, 2021

• New features:

  • Added support for password-free pulls of Container Registry Enterprise Edition images.

  • Added support for PVC, CephFS, and Flexvolume secret references.

  • Added support for HugePages on nodes.

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed ECI resource leaks in some scenarios.

  • Fixed incorrect CPU load displays.

  • Fixed nodes becoming NotReady because of slow restarts.

  • Fixed pod creation failures caused by excessively long URL parameters.

  • Fixed cluster roles being deleted in some scenarios.

• Optimizations:

  • Improved pod creation speed.

  • Improved image cache construction speed.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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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

May 24, 2021

• Fixed repeated node creation during concurrent requests.

This upgrade 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

May 13, 2021

• Added support for PrivateZone hot updates.

This upgrade 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

May 6, 2021

• Added compatibility with NodeSelector scheduling: Pods with the type=virtual-kubelet label are created by Virtual Kubelet.

This upgrade 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

April 22, 2021

• Fixed virtual node display issues.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.0.0.101-cd8bcfa04-aliyun

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

April 16, 2021

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

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.0.0.93-ef86bbfa1-aliyun

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

April 13, 2021

• Changed the value of eciLogtailMacheineGroupKey to support ENV and CRD log collection.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.0.0.90-15deb126e-aliyun

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

April 6, 2021

• Added ECI Profile. For more information, see Configure ECI Profile.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.0.0.86-9005a977d-aliyun

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

March 17, 2021

• Updated /etc/hosts to add Domain and DNS Annotations.

• Reduced ClusterRoleBinding check time.

• Improved leader election for multiple add-ons.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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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

February 25, 2021

• Improved CreatePod status checks: Pods are created only when the status is Pending.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

v2.0.0.76-6e9e19bd5-aliyun

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

February 22, 2021

• Added support for PProf debugging.

• Added support for controlling leader election with a switch.

• Updated ClusterRole for EndPointSlice.

• Added Kubernetes version Annotations to pods.

• Added support for different Webhook configurations for different Kubernetes versions.

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.0.0.618-7fd50d738-aliyun

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

December 4, 2020

• Improved pod compatibility.

• Added support for leader election among multiple Virtual Kubelet (VK) controllers.

Ensure that the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and security group configurations of ECI-based pods are correct and that the pods can access the cluster API server. Otherwise, pods remain in the Waiting state.

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v1.0.0.10-aliyun

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

September 21, 2020

• Added support for extending cluster elasticity by running application pods as serverless containers (ECI).

This upgrade has no impact on your workloads.

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v1.0.0.2-aliyun

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

March 12, 2020

• Deployed the virtual-nodes-eci controller as a StatefulSet. Modifying the replica count creates multiple VK virtual nodes and supports larger-scale ECI-based pods.

• Node names changed to virtual-node-eci-$n.

• Added support for accessing ClusterIP Services.

• Added support for spot instances with preemption.

• Added support for mounting disk volumes through CSI.

If your virtual-nodes-eci controller is deployed as a Deployment, delete the ECI instances on the virtual-kubelet node before you update or redeploy the add-on.