Netpila
Netpila is a container network system developed by Alibaba Cloud for cloud-native applications. Netpila uses a unified networking model to provide connections and network services. Netpila offers a consistent network experience across different container runtimes and node types (physical machines and virtual machines). This topic introduces Netpila and describes the release notes for Netpila.
Introduction
Netpila provides standard Container Network Interface (CNI) plug-ins, which can be seamlessly integrated with Kubernetes. You can use Netpila to connect containers in Kubernetes clusters or connect them to external services.
By default, Netpila is automatically installed when you create a Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) Lingjun managed cluster. Netpila assigns a secondary private IP address to each pod on a physical machine in the ACK Lingjun managed cluster to allow the pods to communicate. After you use Netpila and elastic network interfaces (ENIs), pods on Lingjun nodes can forward packets without using tunneling technologies such as VXLAN. In addition, this mode also allows pods to communicate more efficiently than the VXLAN mode.
Release notes
March 2026
Component | Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
netpila-agent | 3.5.9 | registry-vpc.cn-wulanchabu.aliyuncs.com/acs/netpila-agent:3.5.9 | 2026-03-20 | Fixed a hardcoding issue with the Service CIDR. | No impact on workloads. |
netpila-operator | 3.5.9 | registry-vpc.cn-wulanchabu.aliyuncs.com/acs/netpila-operator:3.5.9 | 2026-03-20 | Fixed a hardcoding issue with the Service CIDR. | No impact on workloads. |
February 2026
Component | Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
netpila-agent | 3.5.8 | registry-vpc.cn-wulanchabu.aliyuncs.com/acs/netpila-agent:3.5.8 | 2026-02-06 | Fixed known issues and added maintenance tools. | No impact on workloads. |
netpila-operator | 3.5.8 | registry-vpc.cn-wulanchabu.aliyuncs.com/acs/netpila-operator:3.5.8 | 2026-02-06 | Fixed known issues and added maintenance tools. | No impact on workloads. |
May 2025
Component | Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
netpila-agent | 3.2.10 | registry-vpc.cn-wulanchabu.aliyuncs.com/acs/netpila-agent:3.2.10 | 2025-05-30 | Optimized the component startup probe duration. | No impact on workloads. |
January 2025
Component | Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
netpila-agent | 3.2.9 | registry-vpc.cn-wulanchabu.aliyuncs.com/acs/netpila-agent:3.2.9 | 2025-01-21 | Added support for pods to access LocalDNS. | No impact on workloads. |
netpila-operator | 3.2.9 | registry-vpc.cn-wulanchabu.aliyuncs.com/acs/netpila-operator:3.2.9 | 2025-01-21 | Optimized the resource synchronization logic to reduce memory usage. | No impact on workloads. |
August 2024
Component | Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
netpila-agent | 3.2.6 | registry-vpc.cn-wulanchabu.aliyuncs.com/acs/netpila-agent:3.2.6 | 2024-08-21 | Optimized the node quota retrieval logic for Lingjun ENI scenarios. | No impact on workloads. |
netpila-operator | 3.2.6 | registry-vpc.cn-wulanchabu.aliyuncs.com/acs/netpila-operator:3.2.6 | 2024-08-21 | Optimized the node quota retrieval logic for Lingjun ENI scenarios. | No impact on workloads. |
June 2024
Component | Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
netpila-agent | 3.2.5 | registry-vpc.cn-wulanchabu.aliyuncs.com/acs/netpila-agent:3.2.5 | 2024-06-30 |
| No impact on workloads. |
netpila-operator | 3.2.5 | registry-vpc.cn-wulanchabu.aliyuncs.com/acs/netpila-operator:3.2.5 | 2024-06-30 | Added support for the multi-IP mode for Lingjun ENIs. | No impact on workloads. |
February 2024
Component | Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
netpila-agent | 3.2.3 | registry-vpc.cn-wulanchabu.aliyuncs.com/acs/netpila-agent:3.2.3 | 2024-02-29 |
| No impact on workloads. |
netpila-operator | 3.2.3 | registry-vpc.cn-wulanchabu.aliyuncs.com/acs/netpila-operator:3.2.3 | 2024-02-29 |
| No impact on workloads. |
November 2023
Component | Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
netpila-agent | 3.1.0 | registry-vpc.cn-wulanchabu.aliyuncs.com/acs/netpila-agent:3.1.0 | 2023-11-13 |
| No impact on workloads. |
netpila-operator | 3.1.0 | registry-vpc.cn-wulanchabu.aliyuncs.com/acs/netpila-operator:3.1.0 | 2023-11-13 |
| No impact on workloads. |
August 2023
Component | Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
netpila-agent | 3.0.4 | registry-vpc.cn-wulanchabu.aliyuncs.com/acs/netpila-agent:3.0.4 | 2023-08-25 |
| No impact on workloads. |
netpila-operator | 3.0.4 | registry-vpc.cn-wulanchabu.aliyuncs.com/acs/netpila-operator:3.0.4 | 2023-08-25 |
| No impact on workloads. |
netpila-agent | v3.0.3 | registry-vpc.cn-wulanchabu.aliyuncs.com/acs/netpila-agent:v3.0.3-34e9b8f-aliyun | 2023-08-03 | The H800 model is supported to adapt to the underlying network architecture. | No impact on workloads. |
June 2023
Component | Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
netpila-agent | v3.0.2 | registry-vpc.cn-wulanchabu.aliyuncs.com/acs/netpila-agent:v3.0.2-3300193-aliyun | 2023-06-20 | The push feature in ACK mode is supported to monitor the network traffic forwarded by the ENIs of the pods that are managed by Netpila and the status of Netpila. | No impact on workloads. |
May 2023
Component | Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
netpila-agent | v3.0.1 | registry-vpc.cn-wulanchabu.aliyuncs.com/acs/netpila-agent:v3.0.1-099671b-aliyun | 2023-05-22 | Added support for a dual-network architecture. | No impact on workloads. |
April 2023
Component | Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
netpila-agent | v3.0.0 | registry-vpc.cn-wulanchabu.aliyuncs.com/acs/netpila-agent:v3.0.0-e52adf0-aliyun | 2023-04-17 | This is the first release. | This is the first release. |
netpila-operator | v3.0.0 | registry-vpc.cn-wulanchabu.aliyuncs.com/acs/netpila-operator:v3.0.0-e52adf0-aliyun | 2023-04-17 | This is the first release. | This is the first release. |