To provide centralized ACK One GitOps capabilities, ACK Application Center will no longer receive feature upgrades and will gradually cease maintenance. The Create Application feature will be discontinued on October 31, 2023. On December 31, 2023, Application Center features will be fully offline, and all functionality will be uniformly upgraded to ACK One GitOps. You can migrate your Application Center configurations to ACK One GitOps.
Change Time
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On October 31, 2023, the Create Application feature in Application Center will be discontinued. You can no longer create applications in Application Center.
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On December 31, 2023, Application Center features will be fully offline. You will not be able to maintain existing applications within Application Center. The normal operation of existing services will be affected.
Impact Scope
All clusters using Application Center features will be affected.
Change Impact
After December 31, 2023, when the Application Center features are fully offline, you will not be able to maintain existing applications in Application Center. The normal operation of existing services will also be affected.
Promptly address this change and migrate your applications to ACK One GitOps. For specific operations, see Migrate Applications from Application Center to ACK One GitOps.
Solutions
You can use ACK One GitOps to replace the original Application Center features. ACK One GitOps is hosted and fully compatible with ArgoCD capabilities. It supports continuous iteration. It replaces templated distribution capabilities using Git deployment templates.
ACK One GitOps provides an authentication console experience that supports the Alibaba Cloud account system, managed control plane operations, and serverless data plane capabilities. It is out-of-the-box and fully managed. You can combine it with ACK One's multi-cluster management capabilities to deliver GitOps applications across multiple clusters. You can combine it with Container Registry (ACR) Enterprise Edition and capabilities such as Distributed Workflow Argo Cluster Overview. This supports enterprises in building CI/CD pipelines based on ACK One GitOps and ACR.
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For new applications, you can manage them directly through ACK One GitOps. For more information, see ACK One GitOps Best Practices.
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For existing applications, you can migrate them to ACK One GitOps. You can use onectl automation to quickly complete batch migration. For specific operations, see Use onectl to Automate Application Migration to ACK One GitOps.