This topic describes feature release updates for Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) in 2024.
Note For the full release notes history, see Release notes.
December 2024
| Product | Feature | Description | Region | References |
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| Container Service for Kubernetes | OCI artifact signing and signature verification based on Notation and Ratify | The notation-alibabacloud-secret-manager component signs Open Container Initiative (OCI) artifacts in Container Registry with Key Management Service (KMS)-managed keys. Install Ratify to verify image signatures and block invalid images.
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All regions | Use Notation and Ratify for OCI artifact signing and signature verification |
| Storage monitoring | Monitor storage resources across clusters, nodes, pods, and externally mounted volumes with Managed Service for Prometheus. Out-of-the-box dashboards display real-time storage usage. | All regions | View storage monitoring information | |
| Workload stability and performance analysis in cost insights | Cost insights identifies stability, performance, and cost risks in workloads, sorts pods by resource utilization, and provides resource configuration views for Burstable and BestEffort QoS pods. | All regions | Use cost insights to identify risks for cluster workloads | |
| Multi-dimensional cost aggregation and idle cost policies in the cost API | The cost API supports new parameters for filtering and aggregating cost data by pod label or node name. Customize idle cost allocation policies and dimensions to manage and optimize costs more flexibly. | All regions | Call the Cost V2 API | |
| GPU fault alerting and solutions | ACK provides end-to-end GPU fault management: monitoring, diagnostics, alerting, and recovery to resolve GPU faults. | All regions | Configure GPU fault alerting and solutions | |
| Batch task orchestration with Argo Workflows | Argo Workflows is a Kubernetes-native workflow engine for orchestrating concurrent jobs with YAML or Python. It supports CI/CD pipelines, data processing, and machine learning workloads. Install the component and use the Argo CLI or console to manage workflows. | All regions | Enable batch task orchestration | |
| ACK One | Geo-disaster recovery based on ALB multi-cluster gateways | ACK One supports geo-disaster recovery with Application Load Balancer (ALB) multi-cluster gateways to protect against region-level disasters such as floods and earthquakes. This may increase response latency, resource costs, and maintenance costs. | All regions | Use ALB multi-cluster gateways of ACK One to implement geo-disaster recovery |
| ACK Edge | Virtual nodes | ACK Edge clusters support virtual nodes. Schedule pods to elastic container instances without reserving or maintaining node pools, improving elasticity and reducing costs compared to pre-provisioning Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances. | All regions | |
| P2P acceleration | ACK Edge clusters support P2P acceleration to speed up image pulls and reduce application deployment time. | All regions | Install a P2P acceleration agent in an ACK cluster | |
| Kubernetes 1.30 support | ACK Edge clusters support Kubernetes 1.30. | All regions | Release notes for ACK Edge of Kubernetes 1.30 | |
| ACK Lingjun | Image acceleration | The aliyun-acr-acceleration-suite component enables on-demand image loading in Lingjun clusters. It converts source images to accelerated images and decompresses data on demand, so pods start without downloading the full image.
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All regions | aliyun-acr-acceleration-suite |
November 2024
| Product | Feature | Description | Region | References |
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| Container Service for Kubernetes | eRDMA support | ACK eRDMA Controller enables elastic Remote Direct Memory Access (eRDMA) in clusters, manages eRDMA interface (ERI) assignments, and lets you specify eRDMA settings in pod configurations. | All regions | ACK eRDMA Controller |
| New releases of ack-secret-manager and secrets-store-csi-driver-provider-alibaba-cloud | New versions of ack-secret-manager and secrets-store-csi-driver-provider-alibaba-cloud are available. Install them from the Marketplace page in the ACK console. | All regions | Use ack-secret-manager to import OOS encryption parameters and Use csi-secrets-store-provider-alibabacloud to import OOS encryption parameters | |
| Remote Shuffle Service for Spark jobs via Apache Celeborn | Apache Celeborn enables Remote Shuffle Service (RSS) for Spark jobs by processing intermediate data—shuffle data and spilled data—for big data compute engines, improving performance, stability, and flexibility. | All regions | Use Celeborn to enable RSS for Spark jobs | |
| Log management for Spark jobs | Use Simple Log Service to collect and manage logs from Spark jobs running in ACK clusters. | All regions | Use Simple Log Service to collect the logs of Spark jobs | |
| ossfs troubleshooting | Object Storage Service (OSS) volumes are Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) file systems mounted via ossfs. Analyze debug or pod logs to troubleshoot ossfs exceptions based on the ossfs run mode. | All regions | Troubleshoot OSSFS exceptions | |
| ACK Serverless | Custom CoreDNS configurations | Customize managed CoreDNS settings for ACK Serverless clusters: specify an external DNS server to improve resolution speed, or add static IP mappings to the local hosts file for domain names with fixed addresses. | All regions | Configure custom parameters for managed CoreDNS |
| ACK One | Network policies for Elastic Container Instance-based pods in registered clusters | Kubernetes network policies are supported for Elastic Container Instance (ECI)-based pods in registered clusters. Control traffic to specific applications by IP address or port. | All regions | Use network policies on elastic container instances |
| Migration from self-managed Argo CD to ACK One GitOps | Use onectl to bulk-migrate clusters, repositories, and applications from a self-managed Argo CD instance to ACK One GitOps.
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All regions | Migrate data from self-managed Argo CD to ACK One GitOps | |
| Preemptible ECI creation in registered clusters | Registered clusters support preemptible elastic container instances for short-term jobs or stateless, fault-tolerant applications at reduced cost. | All regions | Create a preemptible elastic container instance | |
| Hybrid disaster recovery based on ALB multi-cluster gateways | ACK One supports hybrid disaster recovery with ALB multi-cluster gateways. Route traffic across clusters in data centers or third-party platforms and perform seamless failovers for active-zone redundancy. | All regions | Use MSE multi-cluster gateways to implement hybrid disaster recovery in ACK One | |
| Zone-disaster recovery based on ALB multi-cluster gateways | ACK One ALB multi-cluster gateways work with ACK One GitOps or multi-cluster application distribution to implement zone-disaster recovery and automatically switch traffic during faults. | All regions | Zone-disaster recovery based on ALB multi-cluster gateways of ACK One | |
| Cloud-native AI suite | FUSE client monitoring for Fluid JindoRuntime | Fluid collects metrics from JindoRuntime caching engines and FUSE clients, displayed in out-of-the-box JindoRuntime monitoring dashboards. | All regions | Enable and use the Fluid JindoRuntime FUSE client for monitoring |
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Performance analysis and troubleshooting for large models using PyTorch Profiler |
Use PyTorch Profiler with TensorBoard to analyze model performance and optimize training across data loading, data transfer, GPU computing, and model compilation. |
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Performance analysis and troubleshooting for large models using PyTorch Profiler |
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Performance analysis and optimization for AI applications using Nsight Systems |
Use Nsight Systems to analyze and optimize AI application performance in deep learning workloads. |
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Performance analysis and optimization for AI applications using Nsight Systems |
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| ACK Edge | High-performance container networks | ACK Edge clusters support Terway Edge as a Container Network Interface (CNI) plug-in for high-performance underlay networks in intra-cluster communication. | All regions | Terway Edge |
October 2024
| Product | Feature | Description | Region | References |
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| Container Service for Kubernetes | Cloud Controller Manager v2.10.0 | Cloud Controller Manager (CCM) v2.10.0 adds readiness gates support and allows the service.beta.kubernetes.io/alibaba-cloud-loadbalancer-additional-resource-tags annotation to modify tags on existing load balancer instances. |
All regions | Cloud Controller Manager |
| Elastic container instances for Spark jobs | Run Spark jobs on Elastic Container Instance (ECI)-based pods by configuring scheduling policies. Pay only for consumed resources, reducing idle waste. | All regions | Use elastic container instances to run Spark jobs | |
| ACK Serverless | Custom parameter configurations for managed CoreDNS | Configure DNS settings for managed CoreDNS by defining a CustomDNSConfig custom resource (CR). | All regions | Configure custom parameters for managed CoreDNS |
| ACK One | Serverless computing in self-managed Kubernetes clusters | ACK Virtual Node creates serverless pods in self-managed Kubernetes clusters with access to elastic cloud compute resources, including CPUs and GPUs. | All regions | Use ACK Virtual Node for serverless computing in self-managed Kubernetes clusters |
| ALB multi-cluster gateways | ACK One ALB multi-cluster gateways extend ALB Ingress to multi-cluster mode. They work like single-cluster ALB Ingress with a few differences. | All regions | Overview of ALB multi-cluster gateways | |
| Cloud-native AI suite | Model inference optimization with TensorRT | Compile PyTorch or TensorFlow models to TensorRT format and run them in the TensorRT inference engine to improve inference speed on NVIDIA GPUs. | All regions | |
| ACK Edge | RAM Roles for Service Accounts (RRSA) | Use RAM Roles for Service Accounts (RRSA) to enforce fine-grained API permission control at the pod level, reducing security risks from shared node permissions. | All regions | Configure RRSA for service accounts to isolate permissions among pods |
| Managed node pools | ACK Edge managed node pools automate O&M tasks including OS CVE patching, kubelet updates, and node restarts, with custom O&M capabilities beyond standard node pools. | All regions | Overview of managed node pools | |
| Alert configurations | Centrally manage alerts for ACK Edge clusters. Configure alert rules for cluster resource, core component, and application metrics. | All regions | ||
| Kubernetes 1.28 | ACK Edge clusters support Kubernetes 1.28. To upgrade from 1.26 to 1.28,submit a ticket to contact the ACK technical team. Upgrades between other versions are not supported. | All regions | Update an ACK Edge cluster | |
| ACK Lingjun | Network topology-aware scheduling | Topology-aware scheduling in Lingjun clusters assigns pods to the same Layer 1 or Layer 2 forwarding domain, reducing network latency and accelerating job completion. | All regions | Work with network topology-aware scheduling |
September 2024
| Product | Feature | Description | Region | References |
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| Container Service for Kubernetes | Kubernetes 1.31 support | Create new ACK clusters on Kubernetes 1.31 or upgrade existing clusters from earlier versions. | All regions | Kubernetes 1.31 |
| Deletion protection for namespaces and Services | After enabling policy governance, turn on deletion protection for business-critical namespaces or Services to prevent accidental deletion. | All regions | Enable deletion protection for a namespace or a Service | |
| Tracing for the NGINX Ingress controller | Report NGINX Ingress controller trace data to Managed Service for OpenTelemetry for real-time trace details, topology visualization, and issue diagnosis. | All regions | Enable tracing for the NGINX Ingress controller | |
| Cost insights for Knative Services | Enable cost insights for a Knative Service to view its estimated cost in real time and support multi-dimensional cost analysis and allocation. | All regions | Enable the cost insights feature in Knative Service | |
| Risk identification with cost insights for cluster workloads | Use cost insights to surface stability, performance, and cost risks in cluster workloads. It tracks resource utilization, provides configuration data for Burstable pods, and identifies risks in BestEffort pods. | All regions | Use cost insights to identify risks for cluster workloads | |
| Spark Operator for Spark jobs | Run and manage Spark jobs in ACK clusters with Spark Operator for efficient large-scale data processing. | All regions | Use Spark Operator to run Spark jobs | |
| ACK One | Argo CD alerting | Configure custom alert rules for Fleet instances with Managed Service for Prometheus metrics. Dashboards display Fleet instance and GitOps system monitoring. | All regions | Configure ACK One Argo CD alerts |
| Application distribution | Distribute applications from a Fleet instance to associated clusters with configurable distribution policies—no Git repositories required. Use differentiated policies for varying deployment requirements across clusters. | All regions | Application distribution overview | |
| Access to Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone | On-premises networks connected via virtual border router (VBR), IPsec-VPN, or Cloud Connect Network (CCN) can access Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone through a transit router for VPC-based private domain name resolution. | All regions | Manage access to Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone | |
| Statically provisioned NAS volumes in registered clusters | Mount statically provisioned NAS (Network Attached Storage) volumes to registered clusters for persistent, shared data storage across pods. | All regions | Mount a statically provisioned NAS volume | |
| Cloud-native AI suite | Auto recovery for FUSE mount targets | When a Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) daemon crashes during a pod's lifecycle, auto recovery restores data access without restarting the application pod. | All regions | Enable the auto recovery feature for FUSE mount targets |
| Cross-namespace dataset sharing | Fluid supports data access and cache sharing across namespaces. Cache a dataset once and share it across teams, improving data utilization and cross-team collaboration. | All regions | Share datasets across namespaces | |
| ACK Edge | Edge Node Service (ENS) management | Manage Edge Node Service (ENS) instances across regions and ISPs in a unified, containerized manner. Create ENS disks and Edge Load Balancer instances for cloud-native storage and networking at the edge. | All regions | ENS management |
| Service topology management for node pools | Expose an application on an edge node only to the current node or same-pool nodes, preventing cross-node-group routing failures and improving response reliability. | All regions | Configure a Service topology |
August 2024
| Product | Feature | Description | Region | References |
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| Container Service for Kubernetes | Inventory health status monitoring for node instant scaling | Node instant scaling monitors ECS instance inventory health. Check the ConfigMap for inventory health status to assess instance type health and proactively adjust selections. | All regions | View the health status of node instant scaling |
| Multiple update frequencies for auto cluster update | Auto cluster update supports three frequency options: Latest Patch Version (patch), Second-Latest Minor Version (stable), and Latest Minor Version (rapid). | All regions | Automatically update a cluster | |
| GPU sharing and memory isolation with MPS | Multi-Process Service (MPS) enables GPU sharing and memory isolation for AI applications running Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) workloads. Add labels to node pools in the ACK console to enable MPS. | All regions | Use MPS for GPU sharing and memory isolation | |
| Knative 1.12.5 | Knative 1.12.5-aliyun.7 is supported, compatible with Kourier 1.12. This version adds Container Registry Enterprise Edition support and the dashboard for preemptible ECS instances. | All regions | Knative release notes | |
| ACK One | Multi-cluster applications | Use Argo CD ApplicationSets to generate applications from a single orchestration template and deploy them across clusters. | All regions | Create a multi-cluster application |
| Elastic node pools with custom images in registered clusters | Use custom images pre-installed with required software to reduce node startup time and accelerate the path to Ready state. | All regions | Build an elastic node pool with a custom image | |
| Large-scale workflow creation with Argo Workflows SDK for Python (Hera) | Hera is a Python SDK for Argo Workflows as an alternative to YAML. Orchestrate and test complex workflows in Python with seamless Python ecosystem integration. | All regions | Use Argo Workflows SDK for Python to create large-scale workflows | |
| Event-driven CI pipelines based on EventBridge | Build event-driven continuous integration (CI) pipelines with EventBridge and distributed Argo Workflows for high-elasticity, low-cost application delivery. | All regions | Event-driven CI pipelines based on EventBridge | |
| Cloud-native AI suite | AI-powered Q&A assistants with Dify | Dify integrates enterprise or individual knowledge bases with large language model (LLM) applications to build customized AI-assisted Q&A solutions. | All regions | Use Dify to create a customized AI-powered Q&A assistant for a website |
| Flowise installation and management | Install Flowise in ACK clusters. Flowise provides a drag-and-drop UI for building LLM applications, enabling rapid iteration from testing to production. | All regions | ||
| Qwen2 model inference deployment with TensorRT-LLM | Deploy Qwen2 models as inference services with Triton and TensorRT-LLM. Fluid Dataflow handles data preparation and Fluid accelerates model loading. The example uses Qwen2-1.5B-Instruct on A10 GPUs. | All regions | Use TensorRT-LLM to deploy a Qwen2 model as an inference service | |
| ACK Edge | Cloud-native AI suite support | ACK Edge clusters support the cloud-native AI suite, including AI Dashboard and AI Developer Console for cluster monitoring and training job submission. | All regions | Deploy the cloud-native AI suite |
July 2024
| Product | Feature | Description | Region | References |
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| Container Service for Kubernetes | Tracing support in NGINX Ingress controller v1.10.2-aliyun.1 | NGINX Ingress controller v1.10.2-aliyun.1 adds tracing support via Managed Service for OpenTelemetry. | All regions | Enable tracing for the NGINX Ingress controller |
| Global network policies with Poseidon v0.5.0 | Poseidon v0.5.0 introduces cluster-level global network policies for network connectivity management across namespaces. | All regions | Use ACK GlobalNetworkPolicy | |
| ContainerOS 3.3 | ContainerOS 3.3 updates the kernel to version 5.10.134-17.0.2.lifsea8, enables cgroup v2 by default for container resource isolation, and fixes vulnerabilities and defects. | All regions | ContainerOS image release record | |
| Custom worker RAM roles for node pools | Assign a custom Resource Access Management (RAM) worker role to a node pool at creation time to isolate permissions per node pool instead of sharing a single default role. | All regions | Use custom worker RAM roles | |
| ACKBlockVolumeTypes security policy | The ACKBlockVolumeTypes policy is added to the security policy library. Use it to restrict which volume types pods in specified namespaces can use. | All regions | ACKBlockVolumeTypes | |
| NVIDIA GPU driver 550.90.07 | NVIDIA GPU driver 550.90.07 is supported in ACK clusters. | All regions | NVIDIA driver versions supported by ACK | |
| Qwen model inference deployment with LMDeploy | Deploy Qwen models as inference services with LMDeploy. The example uses Qwen1.5-4B-Chat on A10 GPUs. | All regions | Use LMDeploy to deploy the Qwen model inference service | |
| GPU-sharing inference services with KServe | Deploy GPU-sharing inference services with KServe to improve GPU utilization. The example uses Qwen1.5-0.5B-Chat on a V100 GPU. | All regions | Deploy inference services that share a GPU | |
| ACK One | Event-driven CI pipelines based on EventBridge | Build event-driven CI pipelines with EventBridge and distributed Argo Workflows for accelerated application delivery at minimal overhead. | All regions | Event-driven CI pipelines based on EventBridge |
| Multi-cluster application orchestration through GitOps | Orchestrate multi-cluster applications in the GitOps console with Git repositories as application sources. Supports YAML, Helm, and Kustomize for version management, multi-cluster distribution, and continuous deployment (CD). | All regions | Use an ApplicationSet to create multiple applications | |
| Elastic node pools with custom images in registered clusters | Use custom images pre-installed with required software to reduce node startup time and reach Ready state faster. | All regions | Build an elastic node pool with a custom image | |
| Cloud-native AI suite | FUSE mount target auto repair | Fluid periodically checks and repairs FUSE mount targets, improving data access stability for business workloads. | All regions | |
| ACK Edge | Kubernetes 1.28 support | Create ACK Edge clusters running Kubernetes 1.28.9-aliyun.1. | All regions | Release notes for ACK Edge of Kubernetes 1.28 |
| Container Storage Interface (CSI) plug-in support | ACK Edge clusters support the Container Storage Interface (CSI) plug-in. Storage medium types and limitations vary by node type and integration method. | All regions | Storage overview | |
| Cloud-native AI suite support | ACK Edge clusters support all cloud-native AI suite features on cloud. Feature availability and limits on premises vary by node type and network type. | All regions | Cloud-native AI suite | |
| Ingress best practices for edge node pools | Deploy Ingress controllers in edge node pools. Behavior differs from Ingress controllers in on-cloud node pools. | All regions | Ingress overview and Use the NGINX Ingress |
June 2024
| Product | Feature | Description | Region | References |
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| Container Service for Kubernetes | Kubernetes 1.30 support | Create new ACK clusters on Kubernetes 1.30 or upgrade existing clusters from earlier versions. | All regions | Kubernetes 1.30 and Manually update ACK clusters |
| Node pool OS parameter customization | Customize Linux OS parameters for node pools to improve OS performance when the defaults don't meet your business requirements. | All regions | Customize the OS parameters of a node pool | |
| Ubuntu 22.04 support | Use Ubuntu 22.04 as the node OS for ACK clusters running Kubernetes 1.30 or later. | All regions | OS images | |
| Enhanced descheduling | The Koordinator Descheduler module in ack-koordinator has enhanced descheduling policies, pod eviction methods, and eviction traffic control to address imbalanced node utilization, overloaded nodes, and changing scheduling requirements. | All regions | Descheduling and Enable descheduling | |
| Network Load Balancer (NLB) configuration via Services in the ACK console | Create and manage Services in the ACK console to configure Network Load Balancer (NLB) instances. NLB supports up to 100 million concurrent connections with auto-scaling. | All regions | Use an existing SLB instance to expose an application and Use an automatically created SLB instance to expose an application | |
| New release of csi-provisioner | The updated csi-provisioner includes a managed version that consumes no node resources, TLS-based NAS mounting on Alibaba Cloud Linux 3, and Ubuntu node support. | All regions | csi-provisioner | |
| ACK One | Enhanced Fleet monitoring | ACK One Fleet monitoring provides global visibility across all associated clusters. A unified dashboard displays component, GitOps, and cost insights metrics for Fleet instances. | All regions | Fleet monitoring |
| Cloud-native AI suite | Cloud-native AI suite now free of charge | All cloud-native AI suite features are free. Build AI production systems on ACK with full-stack optimizations for AI and machine learning (ML) workloads. | All regions | [Free component notice] Cloud-native AI suite is free of charge |
| ACK Edge | Disk storage for on-cloud node pools | On-cloud node pools in ACK Edge clusters use the same Container Storage Interface (CSI) as ACK managed clusters. Mount disks with persistent volumes (PVs) and persistent volume claims (PVCs). | All regions | |
| Access to data center workloads via Express Connect circuits | ACK Edge cluster API servers access pods and Services at the edge via Express Connect circuits. The edge controller manager (ECM) automates VPC-to-edge-pod routing. | All regions | Network management |
May 2024
| Product | Feature | Description | Region | References |
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| Container Service for Kubernetes | cloud-controller-manager v2.9.1 | cloud-controller-manager v2.9.1 adds cross-VPC NLB instance reuse, NLB server group weights, mixed ECS-plus-pod server groups, and improved NLB IPv6 support. | All regions | Cloud Controller Manager |
| Custom routing rules for ALB Ingresses | Create custom routing rules for ALB Ingresses via a visual interface. Route requests by path, domain name, or request header, and forward to specific Services or return fixed responses. | All regions | Customize the routing rules of an ALB Ingress | |
| NVMe disk multi-attach and reservation | Mount an NVMe disk to up to 16 instances simultaneously with NVMe reservation, ensuring data consistency for applications such as databases and enabling faster failovers. | All regions | Use the multi-attach and NVMe reservation features of NVMe disks | |
| ossfs version switching via feature gate | In CSI 1.30.1 and later, enable a feature gate to switch to ossfs 1.91 or later for higher file system performance. | All regions | ossfs versions and Features of ossfs 1.91 and later and ossfs performance benchmarking | |
| ACK One | CI pipelines for Golang projects in workflow clusters | ACK One workflow clusters—built on hosted Argo Workflows—provide high elasticity, auto-scaling, and zero O&M overhead for low-cost Golang CI pipelines. | All regions | Create CI pipelines for Golang projects in workflow clusters |
| Cloud-native AI suite | Dynamic dataset mount targets with Fluid | Fluid dynamically mounts and updates dataset mount targets—including PVs and PVCs—inside running containers without pod restarts. | All regions |
April 2024
| Product | Feature | Description | Region | References |
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| Container Service for Kubernetes | Anomaly diagnostics with ACK AI Assistant | ACK AI Assistant analyzes and diagnoses failed tasks, error logs, and component update failures in ACK clusters, reducing manual O&M effort. | All regions | Use ACK AI Assistant to help troubleshoot issues and find answers to your questions |
| RRSA authentication for OSS volumes | Configure RAM Roles for Service Accounts (RRSA) authentication on persistent volumes to restrict API access to specific OSS volumes for fine-grained access control. | All regions | Use RRSA authentication to mount a statically provisioned OSS volume | |
| EIPs with Anti-DDoS (Enhanced Edition) for pods | ACK Extend Network Controller v0.9.0 creates and manages NAT gateways and elastic IP addresses (EIPs), and can bind EIPs with Anti-DDoS (Enhanced Edition) to internet-exposed pods. | All regions | Associate an exclusive EIP with a pod | |
| New predefined security policies | Three new predefined security policies are added to the policy governance module: ACKServicesDeleteProtection, ACKPVSizeConstraint, and ACKPVCConstraint. | All regions | Predefined security policies of ACK | |
| ACK Edge | Offline O&M tool for edge nodes | Use the ACK Edge offline O&M tool to perform operations—such as business updates and configuration changes—on edge nodes offline due to network instability. | All regions | Offline O&M tool for edge nodes |
| ACK One | Multi-cluster gateway management | Microservices Engine (MSE) cloud-native gateways serve as multi-cluster gateways via the MSE Ingress controller hosted in ACK One. Manage north-south traffic visually with active zone-redundancy, multi-cluster load balancing, and header-based routing. | All regions | Manage gateways |
| OSS access optimization for distributed Argo Workflows | ACK One Argo Workflows supports multipart upload for large files, artifact auto garbage collection, and streaming artifact transmission for efficient, secure OSS access. | All regions | Configure artifacts | |
| Cloud-native AI suite | MLflow deployment in ACK clusters | Deploy MLflow in ACK clusters to track model training and manage the ML model lifecycle, including MLflow Model Registry. | All regions | Configure MLflow Model Registry and Manage models in MLflow Model Registry |
March 2024
| Product | Feature | Description | Region | References |
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| Container Service for Kubernetes | Kubeconfig file management and recycle bin | View and manage kubeconfig files with Alibaba Cloud accounts, RAM users, or RAM roles. Delete or revoke permissions for risky kubeconfig files, and restore deleted files from the recycle bin within 30 days. | All regions | Use the kubeconfig recycle bin, Delete kubeconfig files, and Use ack-ram-tool to revoke the permissions of specified users on ACK clusters |
| GPU device isolation | In exclusive GPU scheduling, isolate a faulty GPU on a node to prevent new workloads from scheduling to it. | All regions | GPU Device Plugin-related operations | |
| Metrics collection for a specific virtual node | In clusters with multiple virtual nodes, specify a single virtual node for metrics collection to reduce data volume and monitoring system load. | All regions | Collect the metrics of the specified virtual node |
February 2024
| Product | Feature | Description | Region | References |
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| Container Service for Kubernetes | ACK Virtual Node 2.11.0 | ACK Virtual Node 2.11.0 adds Windows instance support and scheduling semantics, enables System Operations & Maintenance (SysOM) for kernel-level monitoring of ECI-based pods, and improves certificate generation speed during pod creation. | All regions | ACK Virtual Node and Deploy the virtual node controller and use it to create Elastic Container Instance-based pods |
| ACK One | Knative support for registered clusters | Registered clusters support Knative, the Kubernetes-based serverless framework. Knative integrates container creation, workload management, and event models for enterprise-grade serverless platforms. | All regions | Knative overview |
| Zone-disaster recovery in hybrid cloud environments | Use ACK One for zone-disaster recovery in Kubernetes clusters running in data centers or third-party clouds. ACK One centrally manages traffic, applications, and clusters, routes traffic across clusters, and supports millisecond-level failovers with Layer 7 routing via the managed MSE Ingress controller. | All regions | Use MSE multi-cluster gateways to implement hybrid disaster recovery in ACK One | |
| OSS object access acceleration with Fluid in registered clusters | Use Fluid—an open source, Kubernetes-native distributed dataset orchestrator—to accelerate access to OSS files in registered clusters. | All regions | Use Fluid to accelerate access to OSS objects | |
| DingTalk chatbot notifications for GitOps application updates | Configure a DingTalk chatbot to receive notifications about GitOps application updates in multi-cluster continuous delivery scenarios. | All regions | Use a DingTalk chatbot to receive notifications about GitOps application updates | |
| Cloud-native AI suite | Ray cluster best practices | Create a Ray cluster in ACK and integrate with Simple Log Service, Managed Service for Prometheus, and ApsaraDB for Redis for optimized logging, observability, and availability. The Ray autoscaler works with ACK cluster autoscaler for efficient compute scaling. | All regions | Best practices for Ray clusters |
January 2024
| Product | Feature | Description | Region | References |
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| Container Service for Kubernetes | ACK AI Assistant | ACK AI Assistant is built on a large language model (LLM) by the ACK team. It uses ACK expertise, O&M observability, and diagnostic experience to troubleshoot ACK and Kubernetes issues. | All regions | Use ACK AI Assistant to help troubleshoot issues and find answers to your questions |
| OS kernel-level container monitoring | Install the ALB Ingress controller and enable Xtrace to collect tracing data. Tracing Analysis provides trace mapping, request statistics, and trace topology for distributed applications. | All regions | Use AlbConfigs to enable Tracing Analysis based on Xtrace | |
| ACK Edge | Kubernetes 1.26 support | ACK Edge clusters support Kubernetes 1.26, with improvements to edge node autonomy and access. | All regions | Release notes for ACK Edge of Kubernetes 1.26 |
| Updated cloud-edge communication solution | ACK Edge clusters running Kubernetes 1.26 and later support cloud-edge network communication via Raven, which provides proxy mode for cross-domain HTTP communication and tunnel mode for cross-domain container-to-container communication. | All regions | Cross-region O&M communication component Raven and raven-agent-ds | |
| ACK One | GitOps console access via custom domain name | Access the ACK One GitOps console through a custom domain. Create a CNAME record mapping to the default GitOps domain, configure an SSL certificate, and log in with a CloudSSO account at https://<your-domain>. |
All regions | Access the GitOps console through a custom domain name |
| Disaster recovery architectures for Kubernetes clusters | Design disaster recovery architectures combining ACK clusters—including third-party and on-premises clusters—with Alibaba Cloud networking, database, middleware, and observability services. | All regions | Disaster recovery architectures and solutions based on Kubernetes container clusters |
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