This document describes new features for the Compute Nest product and related documentation updates.
October 2025
Feature name | Feature overview | Release date | References |
2025-10-30 | |||
New services released |
| 2025-10-30 |
September 2025
Feature name | Feature overview | Release date | References |
MCP Marketplace supports AI Gateway + FC3 Enterprise Edition for one-click private MCP marketplace setup | As enterprises deepen their digital transformation, Model Context Protocol (MCP) has become a core infrastructure bridging AI models and enterprise data. Alibaba Cloud Compute Nest provides a complete MCP marketplace solution to help enterprises quickly build internal private MCP platforms for unified AI capability management and distribution. This topic describes how to build an internal MCP marketplace using Compute Nest, including system architecture design, public and private MCP service deployment, permission management, and enterprise-grade features. | 2025-09-30 | |
New services released |
| 2025-09-30 |
July 2025
Feature name | Feature overview | Release date | References |
Model Marketplace launched | The Compute Nest Model Marketplace leverages Alibaba Cloud elastic computing resources and supports self-controlled private deployment solutions. It integrates industry-leading models such as Qwen, Wanxiang, DeepSeek, and Stable Diffusion, covering cutting-edge AI scenarios including large language models, multimodal, text-to-image, and text-to-video. Models deploy directly under your Alibaba Cloud account with 30-minute rapid deployment, ensuring both data security and ease of use. | 2025-07-31 | |
New services released | SwanLab Community Edition, RVC WebUI Community Edition, LLM inference service – ACS Edition, OpenHands Community Edition, Ghibli-style image generation, AI old photo restoration, CozeStudio Community Edition | 2025-07-31 |
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May 2025
Feature name | Feature overview | Release date | References |
Software information displayed | Display software information in the Service Catalog so users can select suitable software based on their needs. | 2025-05-31 | |
Deployment artifacts |
| 2025-05-31 | |
Simulate return values of marketplace APIs | Integrate PushMeteringData and CheckOutLicense APIs before listing your service. However, testing requires listing, creating a conflict. Compute Nest provides a mechanism to simulate marketplace API return values so you can validate logic before listing. | 2025-05-31 | |
New services released | Deerflow Community Edition, Open WebUI Amap MCP, Intelligent Document Analysis System, Wanxiang AI Painting, Memos Community Edition, DeepSeek Full-Power CPU-Yitian, askTable Community Edition, LLM inference service – ECS Edition (adds support for Qwen3 series models), LLM inference service – ACS Edition (supports Qwen3 series models and optional GPU count), MCP Server Community Edition (adds extensive MCP tools) | 2025-05-31 |
April 2025
Feature name | Feature overview | Release date | References |
Deployment artifact distribution failure status | Add a distribution failure status for deployment artifacts so you can view failure details. | 2025-04-30 | |
Display service contact information | After deploying a service instance, view the service provider's contact information in the console to reach them directly. | 2025-04-30 | |
New services released | MCP Server Community Edition, Airflow Community Edition, Stable Diffusion Community Edition – supports Forge version and FLux model, LLM inference service (ECS Edition), LLM inference service (ACS Edition), Memos Community Edition. | 2025-04-30 |
March 2025
Feature name | Feature overview | Release date | References |
Filter Git repositories when building services | Create services from Git to quickly convert your Git repository into a Compute Nest service. Filter Git repositories during creation. | 2025-03-31 | |
ComputeNestCli supports full service testing |
| 2025-03-31 | |
Add Terraform deployment type example templates | Compute Nest provides multiple service templates based on different architectures and applications. Use these templates to quickly create services. Creating services from curated templates supports Terraform templates. | 2025-03-31 | |
Precheck permissions, service activation status, and balance when creating apps from Git repositories | Application Management integrates resource, security, monitoring, event, O&M, and publishing features. It suits developers who need rapid app creation and O&M teams requiring unified resource management, significantly improving automation and efficiency. If your code resides in a Git repository and you want to manage it directly through Application Management, follow this guide to create apps from Git repositories. | 2025-03-31 | |
Create services and deployment artifacts from GitLab and Codeup repositories | Create services and deployment artifacts from GitLab and Codeup repositories. | 2025-03-31 | |
New services released | ComfyUI Community Edition, Stable Diffusion Community Edition supports SD3 model, FastGPT Community Edition, ILLA Community Edition, ToolJet Community Edition, n8n Community Edition, OpenManus Community Edition, AnythingLLM Community Edition, LLM inference service, Bolt.diy Community Edition. | 2025-03-31 |
February 2025
Feature name | Feature overview | Release date | References |
Custom license via KeyGen integrated with Marketplace | Alibaba Cloud Compute Nest addresses ISV license management challenges in BYOL mode with a KeyGen-based license solution. | 2025-02-28 | |
Create apps from Git repositories in Application Management | Application Management integrates resource, security, monitoring, event, O&M, and publishing features. It suits developers who need rapid app creation and O&M teams requiring unified resource management, significantly improving automation and efficiency. If your code resides in a Git repository and you want to manage it directly through Application Management, follow this guide to create apps from Git repositories. | 2025-02-28 | |
New services released | DeepSeek R1, Theia Community Edition, DeepSeek personal site – quick deployment, GitLab Community Edition supports ACK cluster deployment, Istio Community Edition supports ACK cluster deployment, Ray Community Edition supports ACK cluster deployment, LobeChat Community Edition supports DeepSeek. | 2025-02-28 |
January 2025
Feature name | Feature overview | Release date | References |
Create services from Git with Buildpacks support | Compute Nest supports importing repositories directly from GitHub, Gitee, public GitLab, and Apsara DevOps CodeUp to create services. This feature greatly lowers the barrier for developers and service providers to create services and enables rapid service creation. Developers can then test, update, and list services in Marketplace. | 2025-01-31 | |
Modify deployment artifact permissions | Modify permissions for ECS image, container image, and Helm-type deployment artifacts. | 2025-01-31 | |
Draft deployment artifacts support container scenarios and multi-template distribution | Distribute Draft deployment artifacts for container scenarios during pre-release. Support distributing multiple deployment artifacts across multi-template scenarios. | 2025-01-31 | |
One-click ECS image build from Git repositories and deployment artifact build logs | Automatically package Git repositories into ECS images managed by Compute Nest. View deployment artifact build logs. | 2025-01-31 | |
Old version reminder when creating service instances | Deploy the latest version directly using version reminders. | 2025-01-31 | |
New services released | Yunikorn Community Edition, DeepSeek Community Edition. | 2025-01-31 |
December 2024
Feature name | Feature overview | Release date | References |
Add system event for user service instance deployment failure | Subscribe to system events such as service instance creation, renewal, and deletion in the Cloud Monitor console. After subscription, manage lifecycle events of user-created service instances in the Cloud Monitor console. | 2024-12-31 | |
Compute Nest supports Cloud Ambassador program | The Alibaba Cloud Ambassador program is part of Alibaba Cloud's ecosystem partner initiative, promoting inclusive technology and driving Digital China through social marketing. After joining, earn referral rewards, level upgrades, and redeem benefits. | 2024-12-31 | |
New services released | Jupyter Hub Community Edition, Metabase Community Edition, Authorizer Community Edition, Dify Community Edition supports High-availability Edition | 2024-12-31 |
November 2024
Feature name | Feature overview | Release date | References |
Fully managed services support non-compliance event detection and notifications | In single-tenant fully managed scenarios, your business runs in the service provider's VPC environment. Data security within this VPC is critical. Compute Nest provides a security compliance check mechanism to protect your data. | 2024-11-30 | Configure security compliance checks for single-tenant fully managed scenarios |
Managed image build for deployment artifacts | Create deployment artifacts using managed image builds. | 2024-11-30 | |
Configure software information for services | Configure software information (name and version) when creating services. | 2024-11-30 | |
Optimize Service Catalog sorting | Optimize Service Catalog sorting. | 2024-11-30 | |
Optimize version selection for service instance upgrades | Optimize version selection for service instance upgrades. | 2024-11-30 | |
Select Docker Compose/Docker for quick service creation | Select Docker Compose/Docker for quick service creation. | 2024-11-30 | |
New services released | New services released | 2024-11-30 |
October 2024
Feature name | Feature overview | Release date | References |
Fully managed services support Marketplace trials | Marketplace and Compute Nest deliver a one-stop free trial experience for software and cloud resources. Easily try products in Marketplace and get free Compute Nest service instances. | 2024-10-30 | |
Domestic Marketplace supports coupon payments | After publishing services in the Compute Nest console, service providers can list them as products in Marketplace. This links Compute Nest services with Marketplace transactions and allows setting different sales methods based on service features for easier user selection and purchase. | 2024-10-30 | |
Display service tags | Display tags on service detail pages. | 2024-10-30 | |
New services released | New services released (LobeChat Community Edition, LibreChat Community Edition, OneApi Community Edition) | 2024-10-30 |
September 2024
Feature name | Feature overview | Release date | References |
Custom upload for architecture diagrams | After creating a service, service providers can configure service architecture diagrams by uploading files on the service detail page. | 2024-9-30 | |
Managed services support log management | Compute Nest provides comprehensive logging at the service instance level, enabling easy monitoring and auditing of operations and viewing application logs within service instances. | 2024-9-30 |
August 2024
Feature name | Feature overview | Release date | References |
Auto-renewal for Marketplace | Support auto-renewal for Marketplace. | 2024-8-30 | None |
Git integration supports Codeup and GitLab | Quickly import repositories from GitHub, Gitee, Apsara DevOps Codeup, and public GitLab that comply with Compute Nest specifications. | 2024-8-30 | None |
July 2024
Feature name | Feature overview | Release date | References |
SaaS Boost supports WeChat Pay | Use SaaS Boost parameter management to easily bind your merchant account to SaaS Boost, enabling direct revenue flow to WeChat. | 2024-7-30 | |
Managed services support CloudMonitor Basic | Managed service instances support CloudMonitor Basic capabilities. | 2024-7-30 | None |
VPC peering supported for network connectivity | VPC peering enables private network interconnection across regions and accounts. Compute Nest network connectivity now supports VPC peering. | 2024-7-30 | None |
June 2024
Feature name | Feature overview | Release date | References |
Configure service runtime parameters | If you allow users to modify service configuration parameters, enable the runtime parameters option when creating the service. Compute Nest provides a graphical interface for editing runtime parameters, lowering the barrier for users to change them. | 2024-6-30 | |
Power on/off O&M operations | When creating private deployment services, define custom O&M operations for service instances. Provide OOS O&M templates for automated O&M or embed links to your O&M manuals. This topic describes how to configure custom O&M operations. | 2024-6-30 | |
Batch upgrade for private deployment service instances on provider side | After releasing a new service version, service providers can batch upgrade private deployment service instances that have upgrade permissions granted. | 2024-6-30 |
May 2024
Feature name | Feature overview | Release date | References |
One-click cross-region service publishing and private network access with Compute Nest | Compute Nest cross-region feature enables one-click cross-region access, allowing services deployed on Compute Nest to achieve cross-VPC and cross-region private network access. | 2024-5-31 | One-click cross-region service publishing and private network access with Compute Nest |
SaaS Boost sales method supported | Compute Nest SaaS Boost is a development tool and framework from Alibaba Cloud that helps SaaS developers quickly build, deploy, scale, and sell SaaS applications on Compute Nest. It provides out-of-the-box features and components so you can focus on business logic while reducing SaaS development complexity and cost. | 2024-5-31 | |
Marketplace order details support returning Outputs | Marketplace order details support returning Outputs. | 2024-5-31 | None |
Simplified service version management—update existing services without incrementing version numbers | Update existing services without incrementing version numbers. | 2024-5-31 | None |
April 2024
Feature name | Feature overview | Release date | References |
Featured template categories added to Compute Nest console | Compute Nest categorizes featured templates into custom templates and example templates. Custom templates let service providers customize and replace deployment artifacts for quick software deployment. Example templates let service providers select scenario-based examples for one-click Compute Nest service creation. | 2024-4-30 | None |
Role permission confirmation added for private deployment service creation | In private deployment scenarios, if the service template defines role creation, users must authorize roles on the Confirm Order page when creating service instances. | 2024-4-30 | |
Prometheus monitoring added to MariaDB-ACK multi-tenant fully managed service featured template | MariaDB-ACK multi-tenant fully managed service supports Prometheus monitoring. After successful deployment, both service providers and tenants can view monitoring dashboards in the console. | 2024-4-30 | None |
Runtime parameter management added to Compute Nest | When users need to modify service runtime parameters, the runtime parameter feature compares the original configuration file with updated values, generates a new configuration file, and overwrites the original to apply changes. | 2024-4-30 | None |
Security proxy added to Compute Nest | Compute Nest provides a security proxy to directly access web services deployed in VPC private networks. This eliminates public network dependency, keeps services entirely within the VPC, enhances security, and reduces public network access costs. | 2024-4-30 | Use Compute Nest security proxy to eliminate public network dependency |
March 2024
Feature name | Feature overview | Release date | References |
Multi-tenant fully managed services support Prometheus monitoring | Compute Nest multi-tenant fully managed services in ACK scenarios support Prometheus monitoring. Users can view their own metrics in the console, and service providers can view all user metrics. | 2024-3-31 | Use Prometheus monitoring for multi-tenant fully managed services in ACK scenarios |
Create services from repositories added to Compute Nest | Alibaba Cloud Compute Nest adds a one-stop software cloudification platform. Configure your repository to comply with Compute Nest service format specifications to automatically deploy software to the cloud as executable cloud software. | 2024-3-31 | None |
WordPress-ACK managed multi-tenant featured template supports specification changes | The WordPress-ACK managed multi-tenant featured template adds specification change operations such as changing package specifications, disk scale-out, and modifying WordPress replica count. | 2024-3-31 | Sell fully managed ACK multi-tenant WordPress services quickly with SaaS Boost |
Basic O&M operations added for fully managed service instances | Compute Nest fully managed services now support basic O&M operations on service instances, such as shutdown, startup, and restart. When you create a fully managed service, you can configure basic O&M settings for service instances in the Add O&M Operations area of the O&M section. Users can then perform basic O&M operations such as shut down, start up, and restart on service instances created from this service. | 2024-3-31 | |
VPC-type tags added to Compute Nest console | Compute Nest adds VPN-type resource tags. When service instances have VPN tags, resources with VPN tags appear on the Resources tab. | 2024-3-31 |
February 2024
Feature name | Feature overview | Release date | References |
Prometheus as metering data source supported for container scenarios | Compute Nest supports selecting Prometheus as the metering data source for container scenarios. This simplifies the metering process and enables zero-code automatic reporting. | 2024-2-29 | |
Featured templates added for private deployment services | Compute Nest console adds three featured templates: image deployment, Docker Compose deployment, and ACK cluster Helm deployment. Select a featured template to quickly create services. | 2024-2-29 |
January 2024
Feature name | Feature overview | Release date | References |
Helm Chart deployment optimized for private deployment services | Compute Nest optimizes Helm Chart deployment by replacing Helm Hook with FluxCD and encapsulating the FluxCD Helm Chart deployment process into a ROS public module. When creating services, enter the OCI-formatted Chart repository address in the Compute Nest service template. FluxCD Helm Chart deployment supports using Compute Nest Helm Chart artifacts or your own Chart repository. | 2024-1-31 | |
Multiple Redis instance types supported for fully managed service packages | Service providers can set multiple Redis instance types as alternatives in Compute Nest packages. During service instance creation, Compute Nest uses these alternatives to call ROS APIs and obtain recommended values, resolving inventory shortages. | 2024-1-31 | None |
VPC peering supported for fully managed services | To create fully managed services with VPC peering, define new VPC scenarios and VPC IPv4 CIDR blocks in the service template. Then, in the Advanced Configuration (Optional) section, enable VPC Private Network Access and select VPC Peering under Link Mode. | 2024-1-31 | None |